Time Creation in Travelling

The Taking and Making of Time among Women Backpackers

Bibliographic Data

ID4356265
AuthorsT Elsrud (0000-0001-5009-2351, corresponding author)
Year1998
Volume7
Issue2-3
Pages309-334
Publication date1998-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTime & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0961-463X • E-ISSN: 1461-7463
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0961463x98007002008
OpenAlexW2157964878
LanguageEN
Citations received28
References cited27

This paper deals with long-term budget travelling from different time perspectives. Narratives of travel, given by women backpackers and interpreted through `time lenses', lead to an analysis of the journey as an individualized time-space in which the traveller regains control of her own time and movement. It is argued that this control, sensed as `freedom', opens up both mind and body to a complexity of different time experiences. These vary depending on context and speed of movement. Thus, the long-term journey into different and diversified cultures is discussed as a move away from clock-time and other structuring devices into a space and time where the traveller is, to a certain extent, left alone to do her own structuring. The backpacker is both living and creating her own time

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