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  • Narratives of travel: Desire and the movement of feminine subjectivity

    Author(s)
    Fullagar, S
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Fullagar, Simone P.
    Year published
    2002
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    ?This article explores a philosophical question concerned with the nature of the desire that moves one to travel, to engage with and know the world in its difference. Drawing upon French feminist theory I take up the Hegelian tradition of theorizing desire as a social relation that structures the everyday dynamics between self and other, self and world. Desire is also profoundly embodied, affective and uncon-sciously mediates our travel relations and experiences in culturally speci?c ways. Yet, within the leisure and tourism literature desire has rarely been theorized beyond the notion of individual motivation or an ideological ...
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    ?This article explores a philosophical question concerned with the nature of the desire that moves one to travel, to engage with and know the world in its difference. Drawing upon French feminist theory I take up the Hegelian tradition of theorizing desire as a social relation that structures the everyday dynamics between self and other, self and world. Desire is also profoundly embodied, affective and uncon-sciously mediates our travel relations and experiences in culturally speci?c ways. Yet, within the leisure and tourism literature desire has rarely been theorized beyond the notion of individual motivation or an ideological conception of consumer wants as the product of false consciousness. In contrast this paper develops a textual analysis of the metaphors and narratives of travel that mediate the (western) feminine subject's desire to move into the world and engage with difference. As part of this method I draw upon excerpts from my own travel diaries to examine how different trajectories of desire structure the movement of feminine subjectivity within phallo-centric culture. The journey of desire is inevitably incomplete, uncertain and produces moments that profoundly disturb and decentre the self. These liminal or heterotopic moments in travel afford us the possibility of glimpsing other modes of desire and hence different ethical relations between self and other, self and world.
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    Journal Title
    Leisure Studies
    Volume
    21
    Issue
    1
    Publisher URI
    http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=t713705926
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1080/02614360110119546
    Subject
    Commercial services
    Tourism
    Sociology
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/16847
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