Global Nomads

<p><em>Global Nomads</em> provides a unique introduction to the globalization of countercultures a topic largely unknown in and outside academia. Anthony D’Andrea examines the social life of mobile expatriates who live within a global circuit of countercultural practice and international tourism in paradoxical paradises. </p><p>Based on nomadic fieldwork across Spain and India the study analyzes how and why these post-metropolitan subjects reject their homelands in order to shape an alternative lifestyle. They become artists therapists exotic traders and bohemian workers seeking to integrate labor mobility and spirituality within a cosmopolitan culture of expressive individualism. These countercultural formations however unfold under neo-liberal regimes that seek to appropriate utopian spaces practices and imaginaries as commodities for tourism entertainment and media consumption. </p><p>In order to understand the new forms of lifestyle identity and subjectivity found in these countercultural circuits<em> Global Nomads</em> develops a dialogue between global and critical studies. D'Andrea introduces the concept of 'neo-nomadism' a fresh outlook on mobility that contributes to overcome some of the shortcomings in globalization studies.</p><p>This book is an essential reference for researchers and students of Sociology Anthropology of Globalization Cultural Studies as well as Tourism and Migration Studies.</p>