Deviance and Risk on Holiday An Ethnography of British Tourists in Ibiza [Paperback]

This book represents the first attempt to step inside the holiday experience of young British tourists in San Antonio, Ibiza. Briggs' ethnographic study reveals the ugly truth about how and why they get involved in deviance and risk-taking when they go abroad, driven by self validation and a commodified social context.1. Introduction 2. The Flexible but Entirely Serious Methodology 3. The Theoretical Framework for the Study 4. Ibiza: The Research Context 5. Goin' Ibiza: Home Lives and the Holiday Hype 6. Constructing Ibiza: The Holiday Career and Status Stratification 7. 'You can be who you want to be, do what you want to do': Identity and Unfreedom 8. The Political Economy: Consumerism and the Commodification of Everything 9. Capitalismo Extremo: Risk-taking and Deviance in Context 10. Going Home&Only to Come Back Out 11. Discussion and Conclusion 12. Meanwhile Across the Mediterranean&(or so some wish)

Brutal, brave, brilliant. Three words that come to mind to best describe this ethnographic tour de force that

Daniel Briggs brings to life [...] Overall, this is an excellent book. If you are an experienced ethnographer, you should have this manuscript as it will further provoke your thoughts on the meanings of 'fieldwork'. If you are a young scholar or a student

who is about to embark on an ethnographic study, this is the book you must read as it will definitely encourage

you to conduct ethnographic fieldwork. If you are a skeptic scientist who does not perceive works like this as

'scientifically' relevant, you must read this book as it may change your mind. - International Journal of Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research

Briggs has not merely gone out to Ibiza on a 'jolly' to be justified by doing a bit of 'research' at the same time his thorough accounts of the tourist industry, along with interviews with tourists, local businesses, prostitutes and criminal julãp