Making Place, Making Self: Travel, Subjectivity and Sexual Difference

by Birkeland,Inger

• ISBN13: 9780754639299
• ISBN10: 0754639290
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-12-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	vii
Acknowledgments	ix
1 Introduction	1	(16)
2 The Journey to Knowledge: Place-openness	17	(16)
3 Tourism, Subjectivity and Self: The North Cape	33	(20)
4 Tourism and the Transformation of Everyday Life	53	(8)
5 Travel, Masculinity and Femininity	61	(8)
6 Travel as Rite de Passage	69	(10)
7 The North as Epiphany	79	(8)
8 Estrangement, Fluidity and Femininity	87	(8)
9 Femininity and Open Space	95	(8)
10 Travelling Internal and External Worlds	103	(8)
11 A Feminine Aesthetics of Travel	111	(10)
12 The Dawning of the Midnight Sun	121	(10)
13 Making Place, Making Self: Choragraphy	131	(20)
Bibliography	151	(12)
Index	163