{"product_id":"going-first-class-9780857451514","title":"Going First Class","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeople travel as never before. However, anthropological research has tended to focus primarily on either labor migration or on tourism. In contrast, this collection of essays explores a diversity of circumstances and impetuses towards contemporary mobility. It ranges from expatriates to peripatetic professionals to middle class migrants in search of extended educational and career opportunities to people seeking self development through travel, either by moving after retirement or visiting educational retreats. These situations, however, converge in the significant resources, variously of finances, time, credentials or skills, which these voyagers are able to call on in embarking on their respective journeys. Accordingly, this volume seeks to tease out the scope and implications of the relatively privileged circumstances under which these voyages are being undertaken.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t“\u003cem\u003eDrawing on a diverse set of ethnographic case studies, \u003c\/em\u003eGoing First Class\u003cem\u003eteases out the scope and implications of the relatively privileged circumstances under which middle-class transnational mobilities are being undertaken..As such, the volume provides an in-depth anthropological answer to the proponents of the ‘mobility turn’ in the social sciences.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Journal of Anthropological Research\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e“The publication of this book… is timely… Interesting and accessibly written, \u003c\/i\u003eGoing First Class?\u003ci\u003e offers not only ethnographically rich reflections on the subject of privileged travel, but… it provides valuable critical insights on the nature of places and the methodological issues surrounding their study.”\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003e• JRAI\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e“…this collection of chapters deserves to be widely read and discussed – together, they demonstrate the imperative for ethnographic research in conversation, but not necessarily in cahoots, with reigning critical theories of modernity and the contemporary world.”\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003e• Social Anthropology\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/b\u003e Structures and Dispositions of Travel and Movement\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eVered Amit\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/b\u003e Middle-Class Japanese Housewives and the Experience of Transnational Mobility\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eSawa Kurotani\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/b\u003e Living in a Bubble: Expatriates’ Transnational Spaces\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eMeike Fechter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/b\u003e Globalization through “Weak Ties”: A Study of Transnational Networks Among Mobile Professionals\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eVered Amit\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/b\u003e Traveling Images, Lives on Location: Cinematographers in the Film Industry\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eCathy Greenhalgh\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/b\u003e Privileged Travelers? Migration Narratives in Families of Middle-Class Caribbean Background\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eKaren Fog Olwig\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/b\u003e How Privileged Are They? Middle-Class Brazilian Immigrants in Lisbon\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eAngela Torresan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/b\u003e Imagined Communitas: Older Migrants and Aspirational Mobility\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eCaroline Oliver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/b\u003e Privileged Time: Volunteers’ Experiences at a Spiritual Retreat Center in Hawaii\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eMargaret C. Rodman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tNotes on Contributors\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038903271767,"sku":"9780857451514","price":22.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780857451514.jpg?v=1750941876","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/going-first-class-9780857451514","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}