Explores understandings of place and place-making in late modernity, covering key themes of place and space, tourism and mobility, and sexual difference and subjectivity. Using individual life stories, this book develops a polyvocal account of leisure and life journeys. It is useful for those in the fields of cultural geography and tourism. Num Pages: 178 pages, Includes 10 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSJ; RGC; WTL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 162 x 235 x 17. Weight in Grams: 472. . 2005. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: Making Place, Making Self: Travel, Subjectivity and Sexual Difference
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 2005
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0754639290
ISBN 13: 9780754639299
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New

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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.

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Inger Birkeland is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Geography at the University of Bergen, Norway.

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