Mobility guilt

Digital nomads and Covid-19

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5761573
AutoresMax Holleran (0000-0001-7177-2065, The University of Melbourne, autor de correspondencia), Mallory Notting (The University of Melbourne)
Año2023
Volumen25
Número5
Páginas1341-1358
Fecha de publicación2023-07-04
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaTourism Geographies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1461-6688 • E-ISSN: 1470-1340
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14616688.2023.2217538
OpenAlexW4378676096
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas26
Referencias 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