ABSTRACT
This chapter examines two discourses of adventuring and vagrancy illustrates, travel encompasses various meanings. Most of the current paradoxes related to mobility emanate from the residual meanings of these discourses. Most global nomads have encountered both interpretations. Whenever discourses produce knowledge, that knowledge is open to dispute. The close relationship between power and knowledge, however, has led many researchers, including influential ones, to use 'discourse' as a synonym for 'ideology'. These conceptions have also gained ground in some lifestyles mobility studies. The discussion on ideologies has risen, in part as a criticism to second modernist theories' inflated view of individualism. The chapter also presents a pluralistic approach, to analyse power struggles related to global nomads' lifestyles. In this context, power is not reducible to simple binary oppositions such as domination and transformation or class conflict; instead, it works in immediate everyday settings where structure and agency are at interplay, enabling and constraining location-independence and producing complex subjectivities.
