Errant Bodies, Mobility, and Political Resistance

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Errant Bodies

   • Gregory Blair

   Pages 1-11

3. Cynics and Punks

   • Gregory Blair

   Pages 13-24

4. Parisian Drifters: Flânerie and Dérive

   • Gregory Blair

   Pages 25-39

5. Wanderlust and the Gendering of Mobility

   • Gregory Blair

   Pages 41-51

6. Beatniks and Guerrilla Warfare

   • Gregory Blair

   Pages 53-62

7. Rambling and Restlessness

   • Gregory Blair

   Pages 63-75

8. Excursions into the Wild

   • Gregory Blair

   Pages 77-88

9. Emergent Errant Bodies

   • Gregory Blair

   Pages 89-96

10. Back Matter

    Pages 97-106

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This book explores a type of wandering referred to as “errant bodies.” This form of wandering is intentional, without specific destination, and operates as a means of resistance against hegemonic forms of power and cultural prescriptions. Beginning with an examination of the character and particulars of being an errant body, the book investigates historical errant bodies including Ancient Greek Cynics, Punks, Baudelaire, Situationists, Earhart, Kerouac, Fuller, Baudrillard, Hamish Fulton, and Keri Smith. Being an errant body means stepping to the side of dominant culture, creating a potential means of political resistance in the technologically driven twenty-first century.

• politics of mobility
• regulated mobility and travel
• locational identities
• xenophobia
• mobile states of being
• errant body
• human geography
• citizenship

• Northern State University, Aberdeen, SD, USA

  Gregory Blair

Gregory Blair is Associate Professor of Art at Northern State University, USA. He has exhibited his artwork and presented his research in locations that include Italy, Portugal, New York, New Orleans, Boston, Alaska, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Minneapolis, and Canada.

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