Global Nomads: Techno and New Age as Transnational Countercultures in Ibiza and Goa

by D'Andrea; Anthony

• ISBN13: 9780415420136
• ISBN10: 041542013X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-04-04
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Global Nomads 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 Nomadsdevelops 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 book is an essential aide for undergraduate, postgraduate and research students of Sociology, Anthropology of Globalization, Cultural Studies and Tourism Studies.

Table of Contents

List of figures	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. viii
Introduction: neo-nomadism: a theory of postidentitarian mobility in the global age	p. 1
Global nomads: instance of cultural hypermobility	p. 1
The significance of expressive expatriation: circuits of mobility and marginalization	p. 7
Globalization: network, diaspora and cosmopolitanism	p. 10
Aesthetics of the self: post-sexualities in a digital age	p. 17
Neo-nomadism: postidentitarian mobility	p. 23
Nomadic ethnography: methodological challenges	p. 31
Book overview	p. 36
Expressive expatriates in Ibiza: hypermobility as countercultural practice and identity	p. 41
Introduction: 'fluidity of experiences' in Ibiza	p. 41
Ibiza contexts: entering the field	p. 44
Spatial and inner mobility: traveling and nomadic spirituality	p. 47
Expatriate, media: 'people from Ibiza'	p. 58
Expatriate education: 'international schools'	p. 61
Expressive lifestyles	p. 65
Conclusion: the aesthetics of centered marginality	p. 75
The hippie and club scenes in Ibiza's tourism industry	p. 78
Counterculture and commodity	p. 78
Utopian sites under siege: Punta Galera	p. 80
The hippie scene: autonomy and tourism	p. 81
The club scene: underground and industry	p. 94
Bohemian working class	p. 113
Ibiza imaginary: transgression, nostalgia and diaspora	p. 120
Freak diaspora: the centrifuge island and orientalism	p. 127
Osho International Meditation Resort: subjectivity, counterculture and spiritual tourism in Pune	p. 131
Osho movement: counterculture and commodification	p. 131
Institutional and ideological contexts: the world's largest meditation center	p. 134
'Osho International Meditation Resort': practices, trajectories and rituals	p. 139
Culture of expression: psychic deterritorialization and institutional control	p. 159
Charisma and rationalization: sex, counterculture and tourism	p. 166
Conclusions: 'enlightenment guaranteed'	p. 171
Techno trance tribalism in Goa: the elementary forms of nomadic spirituality	p. 175
Introduction: the psychedelic contact zone	p. 175
The Pune-Goa connection: rebel sannyasins	p. 179
Goa, tourism and 'hippies'	p. 181
Day Life: the social organization of the trance scene in northern Goa	p. 185
Night Life: nomadic spirituality in psychedelic rituals	p. 204
Psychic deterritorialization: madness in India	p. 214
Conclusion: nomadic spirituality and smooth spaces	p. 220
Global counter-conclusions: flexible economies and subjectivities	p. 222
Notes	p. 228
Bibliography	p. 234
Index	p. 245
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