Couchsurfing - Trauma Advocacy
Laurie Taylor looks at new research that finds that increased mobility and social networking allow us to plan encounters and trips with strangers. Also, trauma advocacy in Croatia.
Ever in need of a new way to travel? 'Couchsurfing', in the form of online social networking, allows users to travel with and stay at the homes of fellow users. It's just one example of how the internet aids face to face intimacy - sometimes amongst strangers. Paula Bialski talks to Laurie Taylor about her book 'Becoming Intimately Mobile' . Based on five years of ethnographic research amongst coach surfers and online hitchhiking website users, it documents new forms of human hospitality and connection. Also, trauma advocates in Croatia. Vanessa Pupavac and Ben Shephard reflect on the growth of compensation schemes for victims of civil war.
Producer:Jayne Egerton.
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Laurie Taylor explores Couchsurfing
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Paula Bialski
Post Doctoral Researcher, the Centre for Urban Culture, Haffen City University, Hamburg
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Becoming Intimately Mobile (Warsaw Studies in Culture and Society - Volume 2) Publisher: Peter Lang GmbH
ISBN-10: 3631630700
ISBN-13: 978-3631630709
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Dr Vanessa Pupavac
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Mladen Pupavac, Vanessa Pupavac
doi: 10.1177/0304375412450844
Alternatives: Global, Local, Political August 2012 vol. 37 no. 3 199-213
Ben Shephard
Military and medical historian, writer and broadcaster
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A War of Nerves: Soldiers and Psychiatrists in the Twentieth CenturyPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN-10: 0674011198
ISBN-13: 978-0674011199
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The Long Road Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ: The Aftermath of the Second World WarPublisher: Anchor; Reprint edition
ISBN-10: 1400033500
ISBN-13: 978-1400033508
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