[Dancecult-l] Fwd: Book Publication: "Global Nomads"

[Graham St John]

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>I'd like to announce the publication of my new book "Global Nomads: 
>Techno and New Age as Transnational Countercultures in Ibiza and 
>Goa", under Routledge series International Library of Sociology. The 
>first edition comes in hardback. Below I enclose the summary and 
>endorsements for your appreciation.
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>Please, feel free to forward this to other colleagues and libraries 
>that may be interested. Thank you,
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>Anthony D'Andrea
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>Global Nomads: Techno and New Age as Transnational Countercultures 
>in Ibiza and Goa. London/New York: Routledge (International Library 
>of Sociology), 2007; 255pp. ISBN: 041542013X.
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>Summary by Routledge:
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>Global Nomads is 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.
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>Based on nomadic fieldwork across Spain and India, the study 
>analyzes how and why these post-metropolitan subjects reject their 
>homeland 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.
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>In order to understand the paradoxical globalization of 
>countercultures, Global Nomads develops a dialogue between global 
>and critical studies by introducing the concept of 'neo-nomadism', 
>which thus overcomes some of the shortcomings in studies of 
>globalization.
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>This books is essential reading for undergraduate, postgraduate and 
>research students of sociology, anthropology of globalization, 
>cultural studies and tourism.
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>Book Endorsements:
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>"A uniquely 'nomadic ethnography,' Global Nomads is the first 
>in-depth treatment of a counterculture flourishing in the global 
>gulf stream of new electronic and spiritual developments. D'Andrea's 
>is an insightful study of expressive individualism manifested in and 
>through key cosmopolitan sites. This book is an invaluable 
>contribution to the anthropology/sociology of contemporary culture, 
>and presents required reading for students and scholars of new 
>spiritualities, techno-dance culture and globalization."
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>(Graham St John, Research Fellow, School of American Research, New Mexico)
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>"D'Andrea breaks new ground in the scholarship on both globalization 
>and the shaping of subjectivities. And he does so spectacularly, 
>both through his focus on neo-nomadic cultures and a novel 
>theorization. This is a deeply erudite book and it is a lot of fun."
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>(Saskia Sassen, Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology at the University 
>of Chicago, and Centennial Visiting Professor at the London School 
>of Economics.)
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>"Le nomade ne bouge pas." (Deleuze & Guattari) 
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>Anthony A. Fischer D'Andrea, Ph.D.
>Research Associate, Transnationalism Project
>University of Chicago
>http://home.uchicago.edu/~afdandre