Monday, March 31, 2014
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http://books.google.com.au/books?id=3EwulzuN4OsC&dq=liminal+places&source=gbs_navlinks_s
Liminal Landscapes: Travel, Experience and Spaces In-between (Google eBook)
Hazel Andrews, Les Roberts
Ideas
and concepts of liminality have long shaped debates around the uses and
practices of space in constructions of identity, particularly in
relation to different forms of travel such as tourism, migration and
pilgrimage, and the social, cultural and experiential landscapes
associated with these and other mobilities. The ritual, performative and
embodied geographies of borderzones, non-places, transitional spaces,
or ‘spaces in-between’ are often discussed in terms of the liminal, yet
there have been few attempts to problematize the concept, or to rethink
how ideas of the liminal might find critical resonance with contemporary
developments in the study of place, space and mobility.
Liminal Landscapes fills this void by bringing together variety of new and emerging methodological approaches of liminality from varying disciplines to explore new theoretical perspectives on mobility, space and socio-cultural experience. By doing so, it offers new insight into contemporary questions about technology, surveillance, power, the city, and post-industrial modernity within the context of tourism and mobility.
The book draws on a wide range of disciplinary approaches, including social anthropology, cultural geography, film, media and cultural studies, art and visual culture, and tourism studies. It brings together recent research from scholars with international reputations in the fields of tourism, mobility, landscape and place, alongside the work of emergent scholars who are developing new insights and perspectives in this area.
This timely intervention is the first collection to offer an interdisciplinary account of the intersection between liminality and landscape in terms of space, place and identity. It therefore charts new directions in the study of liminal spaces and mobility practices and will be valuable reading for range of students, researchers and academics interested in this field.
Liminal Landscapes fills this void by bringing together variety of new and emerging methodological approaches of liminality from varying disciplines to explore new theoretical perspectives on mobility, space and socio-cultural experience. By doing so, it offers new insight into contemporary questions about technology, surveillance, power, the city, and post-industrial modernity within the context of tourism and mobility.
The book draws on a wide range of disciplinary approaches, including social anthropology, cultural geography, film, media and cultural studies, art and visual culture, and tourism studies. It brings together recent research from scholars with international reputations in the fields of tourism, mobility, landscape and place, alongside the work of emergent scholars who are developing new insights and perspectives in this area.
This timely intervention is the first collection to offer an interdisciplinary account of the intersection between liminality and landscape in terms of space, place and identity. It therefore charts new directions in the study of liminal spaces and mobility practices and will be valuable reading for range of students, researchers and academics interested in this field.
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