Jeff Ferrell Drift (Paperback)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: DriftCondition: NewEAN: 9780520295551ISBN: 9780520295551Publisher: University of California PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 03/16/2018Item Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 15mmItem Weight: 363gLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Illicit Mobility and Uncertain KnowledgeISBN-10: 0520295552Description: “This book was written late in the North American night, with the rumbling thuds and booming train horns of the nearby rail yard echoing through my windows, reminding me of the train hoppers and gutter punks out there rolling through the darkness.” In Drift, Jeff Ferrell shows how dislocation and disorientation can become phenomena in their own right. Examining the history of drifting, he situates contemporary drift within today’s economic, legal, and cultural dynamics. He also highlights a distinctly North American form of drift—that of the train-hopping hobo—by tracing the hobo’s legal and political history and by detailing his own immersion in the world of contemporary train-hoppers. Along the way, Ferrell sheds light on the ephemeral intensity of drifting communities and explores the contested politics of drift: the strategies that legal authorities employ to control drifters in the interest of economic development, the social and spatial dislocations that these strategies ironically exacerbate, and the ways in which drifters create their own slippery forms of resistance. Ferrell concludes that drift constitutes a necessary subject of social inquiry and a way of revitalizing social inquiry itself, offering as it does new models for knowing and engaging with the contemporary world.Country/Region of Manufacture: USAuthor: Jeff FerrellGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Social SciencesRelease Year: 2018 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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