Index

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Thompson, B.Y. (2021), "Index", Digital Nomads Living on the Margins: Remote-Working Laptop Entrepreneurs in the Gig Economy (Emerald Studies in Alternativity and Marginalization), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 139-142. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80071-545-520211011

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Copyright © 2021 Beverly Yuen Thompson

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INDEX

Accessibility (see disability)

Accessible travel and disability

, 97–98

Administrative mobility

, 39

African American travelers

, 95

Air Carrier Access Act

, 97

“Alipay Health Code” phone application

, 20

Amazon

, 19

America’s Vacation Deficit Disorder: Who Stole your Vacation?

, 61

American exceptionalism

, 50

American Psychological Association (APA)

, 45

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

, 97–98

Apple

, 19

Application-based employers

, 16

Assets

, 27–28

Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment (2002)

, 46

Awkward Traveller

, 96

Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream

, 48

Bauman, Zygmunt

, 7, 13–14, 19, 82–83, 113, 119

Beyond Boredom and Anxiety: Experiencing Flow in Work and Play (1975)

, 47

Black Adventuristas

, 95

Black and Abroad

, 95

Black Girls Travel

, 95

Black Passport Stamps

, 95

Black travelers

, 96

Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America

, 48

Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability

, 98

Caribbean service workers

, 70

Carnival communities

, 7, 83

Casual leisure

, 60

Character development

, 47

Character Strengths and Virtues

, 46

Chiang Mai, Thailand

, 66–70

Co-living spaces

, 84–86

Coaching

, 40–41

Coalmine, digital nomads as canaries in

, 10–11

Community

, 82–83

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

, 43

Content mobility

, 39

Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act)

, 19

Corporations

, 16

COVID-19 pandemic

, 1, 7–8, 84, 101

and disruption to traditional work

, 102–104

liquid modernity and

, 8, 19–20

Coworking spaces

, 84–86

Critical Design Lab, The

, 98

Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly

, 45–47, 50

Curb Free With Cory Lee

, 98

Cyborg

, 20

Debts

, 27–28

Democracy in America

, 83

Demographics

, 8

Digital Bro-mads

, 52–53

Digital Nomad

, 54, 119

Digital nomadism

, 60

application to

, 51–57

Digital nomads

, 2–3, 13, 81, 101–102

as canaries in coalmine

, 10–11

co-living spaces and coworking spaces

, 84–86

community

, 82–83

inspiration for becoming

, 36–39

laptops, sunscreen, surfboards, and selfies

, 9–10

liquid modernity, and COVID-19 pandemic

, 7–8

marginalized identities, social justice, and volun-tourism

, 10

methodology

, 3–6

neoliberal financialization of real estate

, 81–82

organizations

, 86–90

outcasts of global bazaar economy

, 8–9

in pandemic times

, 1–2

participant demographics

, 6–7

positive psychology and adaptation to digital nomadism

, 9

seek community

, 10

Western millennials

, 8

women, travel destinations, and networks

, 83–84

Digital surveillance

, 42

Disability

, 97–98

Disability rights movement

, 98

Disaster capitalism

, 13, 19

Disney theme parks

, 62

Disruption

, 101

COVID-19 pandemic and disruption to traditional work

, 102–104

Downshifting

, 110–111

Drop-shipping

, 39

Early travel experiences with family

, 61–66

Eco-tourism

, 115–116

Educational attainment

, 29–30

Ehrenreich, Barbara

, 9, 45, 47–48, 51, 58, 120

Employment benefits

, 42–43

Environmental catastrophes

, 1

Environmental impacts of travel

, 111–113

Ethnographers

, 4

Ethnography

, 3–4

Ethnomethodological approach

, 4

Explosive communities

, 7

Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History

, 50

Federal Housing Administration (FHA)

, 82

Feminist theorists

, 5

Ferriss, Tim

, 2, 44, 120

Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-Being

, 46

Foucauldian approach

, 51

4-Hour Workweek

, 2, 37, 52–53, 120

Freud, Sigmund

, 46

Full-time employment

, 119

Gender

, 28–29, 92–94

Gentrification

, 113–114

Gig economy

, 8, 15–18

Global Bazaar economy

, 8–9

digital surveillance

, 42

employment benefits

, 42–43

employment history

, 34–36

inspiration for becoming digital nomad

, 36–39

outcasts of

, 33

remote work

, 39–42

work-life balance

, 43–44

Goddess pilgrims

, 91

Google

, 1, 19

Governments

, 16, 42

Gross domestic product (GDP)

, 29

Growing up Absurd

, 110

Hamrale, Aimi

, 98

Happiness

, 49–50, 58, 116

Happycracy

, 49

Hegemonic whiteness

, 25

Home base

, 105–108

Home ownership

, 82

Homestead Act

, 82

Humanistic psychology

, 46

Hyper-capitalism

, 7

Illusion of the End, The

, 101

Income

, 27–28

Indigenous populations

, 70–71, 97

Initial public offering (IPO)

, 84

Institutional Review Board (IRB)

, 4

International Air Transport Association

, 95

International Labor Organization (ILO)

, 61

John Templeton Foundation

, 47

Journal of Sustainable Tourism, The

, 97

Journalism

, 41

Keynesian economics

, 101

Kyoto Protocol

, 111

Language

, 24

barriers

, 75–78

Laptops

, 9–10

Latinas Who Travel

, 97

Learned helplessness

, 46

Legal risk

, 17

Leisure

, 120

practices of digital nomads

, 9–10

of travel

, 59–60

LGBT folks

, 93–94

Liquid employment

, 15

Liquid modernity

, 7–8, 13–14

and COVID-19 pandemic

, 19–20

Liquid society

, 13–15

Local residents

interactions with

, 70–72

relations with

, 72–74

Lost Art of Staying Put

, 114–116

Manufacturing Happy Citizens: How the Science and Industry of Happiness Control Our Lives

, 49

Māori populations

, 30

Marginalized identities

, 10

Mass tourism

, 113–114

Mass tourists

, 70

Master of Applied Positive Psychology (MAPP)

, 46

McDonaldization concept

, 62

Micro-entrepreneurs

, 84

Microsoft

, 1

Millennials

, 8, 23, 26, 29, 31, 37, 119 (see also Western Millennials)

Mobility

, 39

National Philanthropic Trust

, 46

Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer

, 51

Neocolonial tourism

, 18–19

Neoliberal financialization of real estate

, 81–82

Neoliberal leisure

, 18–19

Neoliberalism

, 13–14, 45, 48, 121

Netflix

, 19

Networks

, 83–84

New York Times, The

, 104

Nomads

, 60

On the Road Again

, 116

Open Doors Organization, The

, 97

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)

, 30

Over-tourism

, 108

Pandemics

, 1

Parents’ wealth and socioeconomic background

, 25–26

Penn Positive Psychology Center

, 46

“People Live Here”

, 113

Peterson, Christopher

, 47

Phenomenological study approaches

, 3–4

Physical risk

, 17

Platform risk

, 17

Political engagement

, 30

Positive psychology (PP)

, 9, 45–47

and adaptation to digital nomadism

, 9

application to digital nomadism

, 51–57

critics

, 45

critiques

, 47–51

Positive sociology

, 60

Positive thinking

, 45

Positivity

, 45

Power

, 19

Privilege

, 26–27

Protest and Resistance in the Tourist City

, 113

Psychological Inquiry (2003)

, 50–51

Qualitative research

, 3

Race

, 94–97

Racial identity

, 24–25

Racism

, 94–97

Regenerative travel

, 112

Remote work

, 39–42

Remote Year

, 88

Roam. co corporate model

, 87–88

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

, 46–47

Rogers, Carl

, 46

Search Engine Optimized content (SEO content)

, 41

Selfies

, 9–10

Seligman, Martin

, 45–47, 49–50, 54

Serious leisure

, 60–61

Sexuality

, 28–29, 92–94

Sharing economy

, 16

Silicon Valley start-up entrepreneurs

, 31

Sixth Annual International Positive Psychology Summit conference

, 47–48

Slow travel

, 108–110

Social class

, 26–27

Social identity

, 61

Social justice

, 10

Social unrest

, 113–114

Socioeconomic status

, 8

SoftBank

, 84–85

Spatial mobility

, 39

Sunscreen

, 9–10

Support Adventure (2020)

, 102

Surfboards

, 9–10

Symbolic interaction, aligned sociological theory of

, 3

TaskRabbit

, 16

Taste cultures

, 61

Technological innovations

, 20

Templeton Religion Trust

, 46

Temporal mobility

, 39

Tourism

, 18–19

Tourism

, 9–10

Tourism as serious leisure consumption

, 60–61

Transpersonal psychology

, 46

Travel

, 9–10, 92–97

bloggers

, 98

destinations

, 83–84

Travel Noire

, 95

Twitter

, 1

Uber

, 16

Universal Basic Income (UBI)

, 17

University of Costa Rica (UCR)

, 29

University of Pennsylvania

, 46

Urbanization

, 31–32

Volun-tourism

, 10

as alternative travel

, 98–99

Voting engagement

, 30

Wandering Ravens, The (2020)

, 102

Western Millennials

, 8, 23

debts, assets, and income

, 27–28

demographics and social context of Western, Millennial generation participants

, 24

educational attainment

, 29–30

gender and sexuality

, 28–29

parents’ wealth and socioeconomic background

, 25–26

political engagement

, 30

racial identity

, 24–25

social class and privilege

, 26–27

urbanization

, 31–32

workforce participation

, 30–31

WeWork

, 84–85

Wheelchair Travel

, 98

Women

, 83–84

Work-life balance

, 43–44

Workforce participation

, 30–31

World Happiness Report (2020)

, 49

Year of Return, The

, 91

Zapatista-related tourism

, 71

Zoom

, 19