Book review: Driving with strangers: what hitchhiking tells us about humanity by Jonathan Purkis

Newburn, Tim ORCID: 0000-0001-9237-1703 (2022) Book review: Driving with strangers: what hitchhiking tells us about humanity by Jonathan Purkis. LSE Review of Books (18 Aug 2022). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

In Driving With Strangers: What Hitchhiking Tells Us about Humanity, Jonathan Purkis argues that the nature of hitchhiking and its place in the world has important things to tell us both about who we are and who we might be. This hopeful book suggests that if we could harness the mutuality and generosity brought to the forefront during the COVID-19 pandemic into a political movement, we might find ourselves hitchhiking again, writes Tim Newburn. Driving With Strangers: What Hitchhiking Tells Us about Humanity. Jonathan Purkis. Manchester University Press. 2021.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/
Additional Information:	© 2022 The Author
Divisions:	Social Policy
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
Date Deposited:	26 Sep 2022 13:00
Last Modified:	01 Dec 2024 04:28
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/116535

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