 | Global Nomads: Techno and New Age as Transnational Countercultures in Ibiza and Goa Subjects: Humanities; Social Sciences; Cultural Studies; Anthropology - Soc Sci; Sociology & Social Policy; Subcultures; Globalisation; Sociology of Culture; Global Nomadsnbsp;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 in paradoxical paradises. Based on nomadic fieldwork across Spain and India, the study analyzes how and why these post-metropolitan subjects reject the homeland 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 appropriate utopian spaces, practices and imaginaries as commodities for tourism, entertainment and media consumption. In order to understand the paradoxical globalization of countercultures, Global Nomads develops a dialogue between global and critical studies by introducing the concept of 'neo-nomadism' which seeks to overcome some of the shortcomings in studies of globalization. This booknbsp;is an essential aide for undergraduate, postgraduate and researchnbsp;studentsnbsp;of Sociology, Anthropology of Globalization, Cultural Studies and Tourism Studies.nbsp; |
