Independent travel: Colonialism, liberalism and the self

Critical Sociology

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 465-482

  Lozanski, Kristin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Backpacking; Colonialism; Ethnography; Independent travel; Liberalism; Self; Subject making; Tourism

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960203837     PISSN: 08969205     EISSN: 15691632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0896920510379443     Document Type: Article

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