Disruptions of self, place and mobility: digital nomads in Chiang Mai, Thailand
Disruptions of self, place and mobility: digital nomads in Chiang Mai, Thailand
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自我、地点和流动性的破坏：泰国清迈的数字游牧民
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10.1080/17450101.2020.1723253
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2020
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Paul F. Green
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Paul F. Green
本文考虑了数字游牧主义日益增长的生活方式趋势，个人利用数字技术将工作，休闲和超移动旅行兴趣结合起来。主要基于在泰国清迈的民族志田野调查，我通过两种截然不同但并存的颠覆概念来研究数字游牧民的生活方式和流动途径。在一个层面上，破坏被视为灵活性、流动性和新颖性的激进表达，唤起了一种从传统的过去中解脱出来的感觉。与此同时，我从更微妙的角度考虑破坏，探讨与工作和旅游有关的历史形成如何影响和扰乱对自我、地点和流动性的理解。在这篇文章中，我研究了工作-休闲的区别、对地方的殖民想象和新兴的超流动性规范在数字游牧民试图在旅游目的地内外建立连贯的自我、工作和生产力的过程中所起的作用。我认为，这些看似流动的生活方式，促进了对边界的持续关注，因为数字游牧民试图在一个可见的、交叉的流动路径中理解工作、身份和新鲜感，这些流动路径包括西方背包客、中国游客、常驻外国人、探亲和朋友，以及其他游牧民。
ABSTRACT This article considers the growing lifestyle trend of digital nomadism, whereby individuals leverage digital technology to combine work, leisure and hypermobile travel interests. Based primarily on ethnographic fieldwork in Chiang Mai, Thailand, I examine the lifestyle and mobility pathways of digital nomads through two distinct yet coexisting notions of disruption. On one level disruption is viewed as a radical expression of flexibility, fluidity and newness, that evokes a sense of breaking free from a traditional past. At the same time, I consider disruption on more subtle terms, addressing ways in which historical formations pertaining to work and tourism feed into and unsettle understandings of self, place and mobility. In this article, I examine the role of a work-leisure distinction, colonial imaginaries of place and emerging norms of hypermobility in complicating attempts by digital nomads to establish a coherent sense of self, work and productivity in and across tourism destinations. These seemingly fluid lifestyle practices, I suggest, promote a continual preoccupation with boundaries, as digital nomads try to make sense of work, identity and newness amid an in/visible and intersecting constellation of mobility pathways involving Western backpackers, Chinese tourists, resident foreigners, visiting family and friends, and other nomads.