Making Place Making Self

Making Place Making Self explores new understandings of place and place-making in late modernity covering key themes of place and space tourism and mobility sexual difference and subjectivity. Using a series of individual life stories it develops a fascinating polyvocal account of leisure and life journeys. These stories focus on journeys made to the North Cape in Norway the most northern point of mainland Europe which is both a tourist destination and an evocation of a reliable and secure point of reference an idea that gives meaning to an individual's life. The theoretical core of the book draws on an inter-weaving of post-Lacanian versions of feminist psycho-analytical thinking with phenomenological and existential thinking where place-making is linked with self-making and homecoming. By combining such ground-breaking theory with her innovative use of case studies Inger Birkeland here provides a major contribution to the fields of cultural geography tourism and feminist studies.