1st Edition
Making Place, Making Self Travel, Subjectivity and Sexual Difference
By Inger Birkeland
Copyright 2005
184 Pages
by
Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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.
Biography
Inger Birkeland is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Geography at the University of Bergen, Norway.
’This truly innovative study, with its focus on sexual difference, breaks new ground in several fields: tourism studies, feminist geography and cultural geography among them. Birkeland’s exposition of place in the feminine through a number of individuals’ life stories is both impressive and inspiring. It deserves the widest readership.'’ Professor Gillian Rose, The Open University, UK 'This book is an engaging study of travel in Norway with Nordkapp, Europe's northern most point, as the focus.' European Spatial Research and Policy
