Caravans : lives on wheels in contemporary Europe
Leivestad, Hege Høyer2019
Book
In 'Caravans,' Hege Høyer Leivestad opens the caravan door to understand how daily life is organised among Britons and Swedes who have relocated, either seasonally or permanently, to mobile homes. Leivestad investigates how the caravan and campsite come to fit and challenge conventional domestic ideals, and how the static mobile caravan can nurture ideas of freedom even when it is standing still. With sensitivity and an awareness of the humour and pathos of the lives of her subjects, Leivestad closely examines the shaping of the European camping phenomenon and its day-to-day pleasures and pains, ranging from friendships ties to conflictive bingo nights, from nosy and noisy neighbours to fake fireplaces and rotten awning floors.
Main title:
Caravans : lives on wheels in contemporary Europe / Hege Høyer Leivestad.
Author:
Leivestad, Hege Høyer, author
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.
Collation:
192 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781350132450 (pbk)
Dewey class:
643.29
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2858508