Mobilizing place, placing mobility : : the politics of representation in a globalized world / / editors, Ginette Verstraete, Tim Cresswell.
What role does ‘place’ have in a world marked by increased mobility on a global scale? What strategies are there for representing ‘place’ in the age of globalization? What is the relationship between ‘place’ and the varied mobilities of migrancy, tourism, travel and nomadism? These are some of the q...
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| Superior document: | Thamyris intersecting |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam ;, New York : : Rodopi,, 2007. |
| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Thamyris intersecting.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (195 pages) :; illustrations. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / Ginette Verstraete and Tim Cresswell
- Preface / Ginette Verstraete and Tim Cresswell
- Introduction: Theorizing Place / Tim Cresswell
- Heading for Europe: Tourism and the Global Itinerary of an Idea / Ginette Verstraete
- Imagined Homelands: Re-mapping Cultural Identity / Ernst van Alphen
- Touring, Routing and Trafficking Female Geobodies: A Video Essay on the Topography of the Global Sex Trade / Ursula Biemann
- The Search for Well Being: Placing Development with Indigenous Identity / Laurel C. Smith
- Being Elsewhere: The Politics and Methods of Researching Symbolic Exclusion / Nick Couldry
- Remaining Where You Are: Kincaid and Glissant on Space and Knowledge / Isabel Hoving
- Immersion and Distance in Virtual Spaces / Renée van de Vall
- No-Man’s-Land?: Five Short Cases on Deserts and the Politics of Place / Inge E. Boer
- Whither the World?: Presence, Absence and the Globe / Kevin Hetherington
- The Contributors / Ginette Verstraete and Tim Cresswell
- Index / Ginette Verstraete and Tim Cresswell.