Mochileiro saindo da "zona": uma investigação fenomenológico-existencial

Abstract

“Backpacking” is a travel practice that is becoming increasingly popular around the world, in which the traveler, seeking authenticity and legitimacy in the way they get in touch with and enter the local culture of the destinations they visit, places themselves in a position of greater openness without pre-defined tourist itineraries. The aim of this study was to reflect on this type of trip and, using existential phenomenology as a theoretical basis, to understand how the experience of openness - leaving the comfort zone - lived by a backpacker reflects on their own becoming in relation to existential anguish. To this end, an interview was conducted with a woman who has been living the nomadic life for two years. We discussed whether backpacking could appease the anguish of being, thinking about the role of discomfort in this process. It was understood that the experience of “backpacking” seems to appease existential anguish insofar as it presents the plurality of the world, but not in a distant way like on the internet, but in a present and provocative way, so that the movement of opening and narrowing of the being takes place less abruptly