Backpacker mobilities : inadvertent sustainability amidst the fluctuating pace of travel
Research output: Journal Publications and Reviews › RGC 21 - Publication in refereed journal › peer-review
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Detail(s)
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 569-583 |
| Journal / Publication | Mobilities |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| Online published | 5 Nov 2017 |
| Publication status | Published - 2018 |
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Abstract
Efforts to address sustainability at the individual level commonly overlook the actions of tourists. Using qualitative research among backpackers, this paper examines relations between mobility and sustainability-related practices. Backpackers have a reputation for hedonism but they performed sustainable practices inadvertently via their fluctuating pace of travel. Pace is understood here as speed plus rhythm and it is this combination that is expressed in the intermittent mobilities of backpackers. Attending to pace shows how the performance of sustainability depends on the dynamic relations between movement and practice, highlighting the role of mobility in determining the tenuousness and durability of sustainable practices.
Research Area(s)
- backpacking, inadvertent sustainability, mobile performances, pace, Social practice theory, tourism mobilities
Citation Format(s)
Backpacker mobilities: inadvertent sustainability amidst the fluctuating pace of travel. / Iaquinto, Benjamin Lucca.
In: Mobilities, Vol. 13, No. 4, 2018, p. 569-583.
In: Mobilities, Vol. 13, No. 4, 2018, p. 569-583.
Research output: Journal Publications and Reviews › RGC 21 - Publication in refereed journal › peer-review
