Making Place, Making Self
Travel, Subjectivity and Sexual Difference
Seiten
2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-25523-4 (ISBN)
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-25523-4 (ISBN)
Making Place, Making Self explores new understandings of place and place-making in late modernity, covering key themes of place and space, tourism and mobility, sexual difference and subjectivity. By combining ground-breaking theory with her innovative use of case studies, Inger Birkeland here provides a major contribution to the fields of cultural geography, tourism and feminist studies.
Making Place, Making Self explores new understandings of place and place-making in late modernity, covering key themes of place and space, tourism and mobility, sexual difference and subjectivity. Using a series of individual life stories, it develops a fascinating polyvocal account of leisure and life journeys. These stories focus on journeys made to the North Cape in Norway, the most northern point of mainland Europe, which is both a tourist destination and an evocation of a reliable and secure point of reference, an idea that gives meaning to an individual's life. The theoretical core of the book draws on an inter-weaving of post-Lacanian versions of feminist psycho-analytical thinking with phenomenological and existential thinking, where place-making is linked with self-making and homecoming. By combining such ground-breaking theory with her innovative use of case studies, Inger Birkeland here provides a major contribution to the fields of cultural geography, tourism and feminist studies.
Making Place, Making Self explores new understandings of place and place-making in late modernity, covering key themes of place and space, tourism and mobility, sexual difference and subjectivity. Using a series of individual life stories, it develops a fascinating polyvocal account of leisure and life journeys. These stories focus on journeys made to the North Cape in Norway, the most northern point of mainland Europe, which is both a tourist destination and an evocation of a reliable and secure point of reference, an idea that gives meaning to an individual's life. The theoretical core of the book draws on an inter-weaving of post-Lacanian versions of feminist psycho-analytical thinking with phenomenological and existential thinking, where place-making is linked with self-making and homecoming. By combining such ground-breaking theory with her innovative use of case studies, Inger Birkeland here provides a major contribution to the fields of cultural geography, tourism and feminist studies.
Inger Birkeland is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Geography at the University of Bergen, Norway.
Contents: Introduction; The journey to knowledge: place-openness; Tourism, subjectivity and self: the North Cape; Tourism and the transformation of everyday life; Travel, masculinity and femininity; Travel as rite de passage; The North as epiphany; Estrangement, fluidity and femininity; Femininity and open space; Travelling internal and external worlds; A feminine aesthetics of travel; The dawning of the midnight sun; Making place, making self: choragraphy; Bibliography; Index.
Erscheinungsdatum | 07.01.2017 |
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Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Gewicht | 453 g |
Themenwelt | Reisen ► Reiseführer |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte | |
Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz | |
Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
Wirtschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-138-25523-8 / 1138255238 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-138-25523-4 / 9781138255234 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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