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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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• Full title: Making Place, Making Self
• Subtitle: Travel, Subjectivity and Sexual Difference
• Author: Inger Birkeland
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 184
• EAN: 9780754639299
• ISBN: 0754639290
• ID: 04679186
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Weight: 472 g
• Dimensions: 162 × 235 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. November 2005

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