ISBN: 9781138255234 - making place, making self: travel, subjectivity and sexual difference (6 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: New. Inger Birkeland is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Geography at the University of Bergen, Norway.Making Place, Making Self explores new understandings of place and place-making in late modernity, covering key themes of place and .

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 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.…