"Following the "Hippie Sahibs

Colonial cultures of travel and the Hippie Trail

Bibliographic Data

ID4549643
AuthorsAgnieszka Sobocinska (0000-0002-0238-3581, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume15
Issue2
Publication date2014-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Colonialism and Colonial History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1532-5768 • E-ISSN: 1532-5768
PublisherProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/cch.2014.0024
OpenAlexW1999162426
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited16

Imperial attitudes and colonial cultures persisted long beyond the period of formal colonisation. This article investigates how colonial attitudes were translated into the postcolonial context within the "alternative" subculture of travel and tourism in South and Southeast Asia. It argues that colonial-era attitudes were translated into the culture of "alternative" tourism through the dual conduits of the Oxford-Cambridge Far Eastern Expedition and the Hippie Trail. The genealogy suggested in this article, from imperial exploration, through the translated mid-points of the Expedition and the Hippie Trail to contemporary "alternative" travel, points to the enduring connections between tourism and imperialism

Archaeology · Colonialism · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Religious Tourism and Spaces · Travel Writing and Literature

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