Mobility guilt

Digital nomads and Covid-19

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5761573
AutoresMax Holleran (0000-0001-7177-2065, The University of Melbourne, autor correspondente), Mallory Notting (The University of Melbourne)
Ano2023
Volume25
Fascículo5
Páginas1341-1358
Data de publicação2023-07-04
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoTourism Geographies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1461-6688 • E-ISSN: 1470-1340
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14616688.2023.2217538
OpenAlexW4378676096
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas26
Referências citadas29

This article examines how digital nomads (generally defined here as those from the Global North working remotely without a permanent home) reacted to the COVID-19 pandemic. Using social media data and 37 in-depth interviews with digital nomads from 16 countries, it argues that many in this group continued traveling to maintain their identity and avoid border closures and lockdowns. The article explores how they rationalized their mobility while navigating feelings of guilt, avoidance of shame, and deflecting accusations of geographical and epidemiological selfishness. New geopolitical conditions created both barriers and travel loopholes, with participants therefore attempting to maintain their group identity through movement while also limiting their social media participation to avoid moral sanction. Drawing on Mimi Sheller's work on mobility justice, the article closes by demonstrating how mobility guilt may be a phenomenon that outlasts the pandemic

Aesthetics · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Criminology · Economic Justice · Feeling · Geopolitics · Identity (music · Limiting · Media studies · Pandemic · Political science · Politics · Selfishness · Shame · Social distance · Sociology · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Law · Migration and Exile Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development