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This article outlines a phenomenon whereby people of affluent countries move abroad in search of a countercultural lifestyle. The article compares the concept of bohemian lifestyle migration with those of neo-nomadism and lifestyle mobilities; the different concepts are understood as lenses that light different aspects of similar phenomena. The article uses two ethnographic case studies from India as lenses onto the phenomenon. Rather than merely focusing on what people say and how they define their identities and lifestyles, it is important to pay attention to the structures and circumstances within which they operate. Their transnationally mobile lifestyle not only is an individual choice but is embedded in political and economic structures that both enable and limit their actions. In particular, the article argues that paying attention to people's income strategies and to the prevailing nation state system is crucial when elaborating on the phenomenon. The article also discusses the limitations of the countercultural aspects of the lifestyle and asks whether such a privileged group of people can be defined as countercultural and if so, what kind of counterculturalism it is. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Shuzo Ishimori is a pioneer of the Japanese anthropology of tourism. With fieldwork in New Zealand, Micronesia and Japan, he researched and taught at the National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka. There he organized a three-year national seminar introducing the topic and engaged Nelson Graburn to assist in 1989-90. He organized conferences, published volumes and trained graduate students. He later moved to the Center for Advanced Studies in Tourism, Hokkaido University, and to the Directorship of the Hokkaido Museum. Through hard work, inspiring leadership, and frequent public and media speeches, he brought together researchers in enthusiastically promoting their common interest in the study of tourism, which he considered to be the outstanding feature of our contemporary "Age of Neo-Nomadism". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the last two decades, West Africa with its Atlantic coast, the Sahara and various other remote places has become a haven for many people from the Global North, who have adopted mobility as a way of life. Most of them are so-called “housetruckers”, i.e. people travelling and at least temporarily living in cars, jeeps, vans, caravans, buses or trucks converted into mobile homes. They represent a highly diversified group that is sometimes hard to put into any conventional mobility category and deserves more academic attention. The aim of this article is to present the variety of this phenomenon and most of all to call attention to the appearance of a new, largely disregarded and undocumented researchable entity within it, i.e. peripatetic housetruckers, which calls for new theoretical reflection within mobility studies.

The article discusses the emergence of a new and undocumented researchable entity within the ethnography of housetruckers that calls for new theoretical reflection within mobility studies. It traces the predecessors of contemporary housetruckers and outlines the varieties of the phenomenon of a highly ambivalent landscape frequented by various Africans including local nomads, tourists and travellers. It suggests a conceptualization of peripatetic housetruckers within the theory of neo-nomadism.