Overview: Reviews alienation, dependence, fear, sociability, protest, time and mobility through the lens of hitchhiking.Explores why hitchhiking has declined in some areas, such as the USA and parts of Europe, .The first English-language social science book to comprehensively explore hitchhiking in the contemporary era in the West, this volume covers a lot of ground—it goes to and fro, in an echo of the .modus operandi .of most hitchhiking journeys. As scarification, piercings, and tattoos move from the counter-culture to popular culture, hitchhiking has remained an activity apart. Yet, with
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