Global nomads Book

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