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1 online resource (265 pages) |
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Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility |
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Contemporary geographies of leisure, tourism, and mobility.
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| Contents |
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
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 fi |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Tourism.
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Pilgrims and pilgrimages.
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Voyages and travels.
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Liminality.
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Rites and ceremonies.
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journeys.
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ceremonies.
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rites.
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Liminality
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Pilgrims and pilgrimages
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Rites and ceremonies
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Tourism
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Voyages and travels
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Landschaft
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Tourismus
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Reise
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Grenzsituation
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Perception spatiale -- Recherche.
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Frontières -- Descriptions et voyages.
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Tourisme.
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Rites et cérémonies.
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Paysage.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Roberts, Les
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| ISBN |
9780203123164 |
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0203123166 |
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