Inger Birkeland

Making Place, Making Self

Travel, Subjectivity and Sexual Difference

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 446g
• ISBN-13: 9780754639299
• ISBN-10: 0754639290
• Artikelnr.: 57048899

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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.