For anyone who loves a good academic paper I really enjoyed this one on 'A Sociology of Caravans' by Prof Peter Beilharz from Latrobe University and Dr Sian Supski from Curtin University. For every social trend there is an interesting history and analysis. It's more interesting than you think!
"The caravan is, at first sight, an obvious thing. A little home on wheels, its transience can easily become permanent. Like a snail’s shell, the caravan can offer protection, or comfort of a momentary kind, though some lives will also be lived out within plywood, or aluminium walls, stuck up on blocks in desolate van parks, not only trailing more happily behind the old jalopy into the sunset..."
http://www.tasa.org.au/conferences/conferencepapers09//papers/Beilharz,%20Peter%20&%20Supski,%20Sian.pdf
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