Personal identity (de)formation among lifestyle travellers: A double-edged sword?
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Cohen, SA (2010) Personal identity (de)formation among lifestyle travellers: A double-edged sword? Leisure Studies, 29 (3). 289 - 301. ISSN 0261-4367
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02614360903434100
Abstract
This article explores the personal identity work of lifestyle travellers – individuals for whom extended leisure travel is a preferred lifestyle that they return to repeatedly. Qualitative findings from in-depth semi-structured interviews with lifestyle travellers in northern India and southern Thailand are interpreted in light of theories on identity formation in late modernity that position identity as problematic. It is suggested that extended leisure travel can provide exposure to varied cultural praxes that may contribute to a sense of social saturation. Whilst a minority of the respondents embraced a saturation of personal identity in the subjective formation of a cosmopolitan cultural identity, several of the respondents were paradoxically left with more identity questions than answers as the result of their travels.
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| Additional Information: | This is an electronic version of an article published in Leisure Studies, 29(3), 289-301(2010). Leisure Studies is available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02614360903434100. |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Business, Economics and Law > Hospitality and Tourism Management |
| ID Code: | 239165 |
| Deposited By: | Symplectic Elements |
| Deposited On: | 19 Mar 2012 09:55 |
| Last Modified: | 16 Feb 2013 15:05 |
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