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Digital Nomads Living on the Margins

Remote-Working Laptop Entrepreneurs in the Gig Economy

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

AvBeverly Yuen Thompson,USA) Thompson, Beverly Yuen (Siena College,Beverly Yuen Thompson,Karl Spracklen

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In this increasingly neoliberal gig economy, exponentially expanding with technological advances, the ability to work online remotely has led some western millennials to travel the world to work and play, while making a subsistence living as digital platform workers. Digging beneath the superficial newspaper articles that highlight beach-bound, bikinied workers, adorned with laptops, this book asks, what are the social implications of adopting the subcultural lifestyle known as ‘Digital Nomadism’? This book explores the inherent social problems with this lifestyle. Examining how Digital Nomadism provides an individualistic fix for an otherwise downwardly-mobile millennial generation, Thompson demonstrates how this generation increasingly postpone markers of adulthood—purchasing a house, getting married, or having children—because of their financial insecurities. Thompson highlights that while being a Digital Nomad can provide a high quality of life while living on the beaches of Thailand, such avenues obscures their inabilities to afford a comfortable lifestyle in their home countries.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2021-06-11
Mått152 x 229 x 13 mm
Vikt349 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieEmerald Studies in Alternativity and Marginalization
Antal sidor152
FörlagEmerald Publishing Limited
ISBN9781800715462

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Beverly Yuen Thompson is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Siena College, Albany, New York, USA. She is the author of Covered in Ink: Tattoos, Women and the Politics of the Body (New York University Press, 2015). She has published articles and book chapters on gender and subcultures in journals such as Sexualities, International Journal of the Sociology of Leisure, Asian Journal of Criminology, Contemporary Justice Review, Journal of Bisexuality, Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies, and Qualitative Inquiry.

Chapter 1. Digital Nomads, Liquid Modernity, and the COVID-19 Pandemic Chapter 2. Western Millennials: Demographics and Socio-Economic Status Chapter 3. Digital Nomads: Outcasts of the Global Bazaar Economy Chapter 4. Bright Sided: Positive Psychology and Its Adaptation to Digital Nomadism Chapter 5. Laptops, Sunscreen, Surfboards, and Selfies: Travel, Tourism, and Leisure Practices of the Digital Nomads Chapter 6. Seeking Same: Digital Nomads Seek Community Chapter 7. Marginalized Identities, Social Justice, and Volun-tourism Chapter 8. Digital Nomads as Canaries in the Coalmine: Disruption and the Future of Work and Leisure