Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Content 7
3. 1. Introduction: Couchsurfing in Lisbon, Tunis and Brisbane 9
4. 2. Cosmopolitans on the Couch: Mobile Hospitality and the Internet 43
5. 3. Hosting Marco in Siberia: Couchsurfing Hospitality in an “Out of the Way” Place 65
6. 4. Rooted Cosmopolitanisms, Deceived Kinship and Uneasy Hospitality among Couchsurfers in Tunisia 83
7. 5. Learning to Perform the Exotic: Cosmopolitan Imagination, Participation and Self-Transformation among Taiwanese Couchsurfers 107
8. 6. Allures of the Global, Gender and the Challenge to Confucian Hospitality among Vietnamese Couchsurfers from Ho Chi Minh City 123
9. 7. Cosmopolitanism as Subcultural Capital: Trust, Performance and Taboo at Couchsurfing.org 141
10. 8. Online to Offline Social Networking: Contextualising Sociality Today Through Couchsurfing.org 161
11. 9. Anthropology and Couchsurfing – Variations on a Theme (An Afterword) 173
12. List of Contributors 181
13. Index 185