ISBN:
9780203123164
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0415668840
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9780415668842
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9781136337468
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9781280665103
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
xvi, 245 p.
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Available via World Wide Web
Serie:
Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility
Serie:
Routledge studies in contemporary geographies of leisure, tourism, and mobility 30
Serie:
Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility Ser.
Paralleltitel:
Print version Liminal Landscapes : Travel, Experience and Spaces In-between
DDC:
306.4819
Schlagwort(e):
Liminality
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Rites and ceremonies
;
Tourism
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Voyages and travels
;
Pilgrims and pilgrimages
;
Liminality
;
Electronic books
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Electronic books
Kurzfassung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Kurzfassung:
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
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Cover; Liminal Landscapes: Travel, experience and spaces in-between; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures and table; Contributors; 1 Introduction: Re-mappingliminality; Part I: Navigating liminality: Theory, method, strategy; 2 Revisiting liminality: The danger of empty spaces; 3 Places remember events: Towards an ethics of encounter; 4 Border crossings: Practices for beating the bounds; Part II: Gleaning and liminality: Edgelands, wetlands, estuaries; 5 Walking the edges: Towards a visual ethnography of beachscapes; 6 The dynamics of liminality in Estonian mires
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
7 The Sands of Dee: Estuarine excursions in liminal spacePart III: Urban liminalities: Ritual, poesis, experience; 8 Spinning Lhasa: Ritual circumambulation routes as liminal urbanscapes in China's 'Western treasure-house'; 9 Urban exploration as adventure tourism: Journeying beyond the everyday; 10 Another place or just another space?: Liminality and Crosby Beach; Part IV: Liminality and nation: Marginality, negotiation, contestation; 11 Shifting borders and dangerous liminalities: The case of Rye Bay; 12 'Danger zones': The British 'road movie' and the liminal landscape
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
13 Threat and suffering: The liminal space of 'The Jungle'14 Shards in the landscape: The dispersed liminality of contemporary slaveries in the UK; 15 Afterword; Index;
Anmerkung:
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Available via World Wide Web
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