Backpaking lifestyle
Westerhausen, 2002). In casting the concept of lifestyle as a net of social analysis, I have
empirically supported these speculations through exploring the practices, shared meanings
and social identity of lifestyle travellers who style their lives around the enduring practice of
backpacking. Applying past labels, such as drifter or wanderer to this way of living
inaccurately implies a social deviancy based on understandings of identity as regressively tied
to production. In contrast, I have demonstrated that the term lifestyle traveller allows for a
more open appraisal of these individuals’ patterns of meaningful consumption. Additionally,
the primacy given to issues of lifestyle in the participants’ emic accounts is a further call for
the construction of lifestyle traveller as a distinct social identity.
Lifestyle travel is a nuanced phenomenon within backpacker tourism that sets its
practitioners apart from other backpackers
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