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- Elsrud, Torun
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Följa John i tredje världen
- 2004
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Ingår i: Ord & Bild. - 0030-4492. ; :3, s. 15-21
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
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- Elsrud, Torun
(författare)
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Resan som frigörelseprocess
- 2004
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Ingår i: Nättidningen Alba. ; :3
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
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- Elsrud, Torun
(författare)
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Risk Creation in Traveling - Backpacker adventure narration
- 2001
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Ingår i: Annals of Tourism Research. - 0160-7383 .- 1873-7722. ; 28:3, s. 597-617
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper addresses, through examples from in-depth interviews with long-term budget travelers, how culturally and socially constructed narratives about risk and adventure are manifested hv individuals in backpacker communities. Such manifestation is carried out through consumption of, for instance, experiences, plates, food, medicine, and clothing. It is argued that tales and acts of "risk and adventure" work particularly well in individuals' efforts to "narrate identity". The paper also addresses a need for more gender sensitive research, through suggesting that adventurous women mar be caught in an intersection between two logical systems. the reflexive life project of "late modernity" open to both genders and the adventure as a historically rounded masculine practice.
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- Elsrud, Torun
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Taking Time and Making Journeys : Narratives on Self and the Other among Backpackers
- 2004
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This work addresses the phenomenon of long-term, so-called ‘independent’ travelling, or backpacking, often to destinations described as the ‘third world’. It regards backpacker journeys as arenas for identity work, for expressing individuality and a ‘strong character’. Rather than merely being a parenthetic detour in time and space a backpacker’s trip to the tropics can be understood as a creative effort by the individual to regain the control over time and space thought to be lost in places travellers call home. Yet, at the same time, backpacking reproduces structures of power, through (re)constructing the image of a ‘primitive other’ upon which much of a successful ‘western identity’ rests. The success is, however, not only dependent upon inventing and encountering ‘primitive’ others but also upon the gender of the traveller as well as the competence in mastering manifestations of adventure and risk. The work argues, for instance, that stereotype expectations of femininity (and masculinity) make female ‘adventurism’ into a challenge beyond the actual (or faked) ordeals encountered on the road. Adventurous women are forced to negotiate and balance between expectations placed upon them as (non-adventurous) females and as adventurous travellers. The arguments rest upon the ontological and epistemological conviction that individuals are creative, making the most out of the tools for identity work which society supplies them with. However, in the process of individual self-articulation, structures are both maintained and altered. Consequently, it is through studying individuals and their products/expressions (such as media texts or choice of clothing, food or ‘proper’ transport) that information can be gathered concerning individual thoughts and actions and the structures within which these are manifested. Such an undertaking has been accomplished within this project by means of a qualitative, ethnographically influenced approach, including interviews with backpackers, observations in backpacker areas and analysis of travel media.
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