Caravans - Lives on Wheels in Contemporary Europe

In @00000373@Caravans,@00000155@ Hege Hoyer Leivestad opens the caravan door to understand how daily life is organised among Britons and Swedes who have relocated, either seasonally or permanently, to mobile homes. Leivestad investigates how the caravan and campsite come to fit and challenge conventional domestic ideals, and how the static mobile caravan can nurture ideas of freedom even when it is standing still. With sensitivity and an awareness of the humour and pathos of the lives of her subjects, Leivestad closely examines the shaping of the European camping phenomenon and its day-to-day pleasures and pains, ranging from friendships ties to conflictive bingo nights, from nosy and noisy neighbours to fake fireplaces and rotten awning floors. As the first ethnographic study of caravan life in Europe, @00000373@Caravans@00000155@ offers a refreshing take on contemporary mobility debates, showing how movement can best be understood by taking a detailed look at certain specific mundanities in material culture. This rich and topical ethnography is a must-read for students of anthropology, human geography and architecture, and for those with an interest in the possibilities and perils of a life on wheels.

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• Authors: H@00000041@#248, Hege Hoyer Leivestad, Hege (Stockholm University Hoyer Leivestad, HOYER LEIVESTAD HEGE, Hege Hyer Leivestad, Hege Hoyer Leivestad, Hege Høyer Leivestad, Hege Hyer Leivestad, Hege yer Leivestad
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9781350029927
• ISBN: 978-1-350-02992-7
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Criminal Practice Series
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SPORTS & RECREATION / Camping, Social and cultural anthropology, Human Geography, Housing and homelessness