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Cohen, S., 2010. Chasing a myth? Searching for ‘self’ through lifestyle travel. Tourist Studies, 10 (2), pp. 117-134.
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Abstract
This paper problematises the concept of searching for self in the context of lifestyle travellers – individuals for whom extended leisure travel is a preferred lifestyle that they return to repeatedly. Qualitative findings on the search for self from in-depth semi-structured interviews with lifestyle travellers in northern India and southern Thailand are considered in light of opposing academic perspectives on self. The study reveals a theoretical tension that exists between lifestyle travellers who may seek a unified sense of self underpinned by the essentialist position that one’s ‘true self’ exists and contrasting academic viewpoints that conceptualise embodied selves as processual, situational and in flux.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| ISSN: | 1468-7976 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | self, searching, lifestyle travellers, essentialism, social construction |
| Subjects: | Social Sciences > Sociology Social Sciences > Tourism |
| Group: | School of Tourism |
| ID Code: | 17554 |
| Deposited By: | Dr Scott Cohen LEFT |
| Deposited On: | 29 Mar 2011 14:16 |
| Last Modified: | 07 Mar 2013 15:42 |
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