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dc.contributor.authorFullagar, S
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T14:22:52Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T14:22:52Z
dc.date.issued2002
dc.date.modified2009-11-18T05:34:04Z
dc.identifier.issn0261-4367
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/02614360110119546
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/16847
dc.description.abstract?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.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.publisher.placeLondon
dc.publisher.urihttp://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=t713705926
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom57
dc.relation.ispartofpageto74
dc.relation.ispartofissue1
dc.relation.ispartofjournalLeisure Studies
dc.relation.ispartofvolume21
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCommercial services
dc.subject.fieldofresearchTourism
dc.subject.fieldofresearchSociology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3504
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3508
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4410
dc.titleNarratives of travel: Desire and the movement of feminine subjectivity
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.date.issued2002
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorFullagar, Simone P.


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