Seeking Authenticity in Place, Culture, and the Self

Seeking Authenticity in Place, Culture, and the Self
Author: N. Osbaldiston
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2012-05-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 113700763X

In recent times, there has been a substantial push by people to escape the metropolis for lifestyles in small coastal, country, or mountainside locales. This book explores the narratives emerging from amenity-left migration using methods developed within the 'strong' cultural sociology.

Culture and Authenticity

Culture and Authenticity
Author: Charles Lindholm
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2008
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

Authenticity is taken for granted as an absolute value in contemporary life. We speak of authentic art, music, food, dance, and people. Authenticity, in its many guises, offers seekers a sense of belonging, connection and solidity. This work argues that the pervasive desire for authenticity is a consequence of a modern loss of faith and meaning.

Seeking Authenticity in Place, Culture, and the Self

Seeking Authenticity in Place, Culture, and the Self
Author: N. Osbaldiston
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2012-05-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 113700763X

In recent times, there has been a substantial push by people to escape the metropolis for lifestyles in small coastal, country, or mountainside locales. This book explores the narratives emerging from amenity-left migration using methods developed within the 'strong' cultural sociology.

Lifestyle Migration and Colonial Traces in Malaysia and Panama

Lifestyle Migration and Colonial Traces in Malaysia and Panama
Author: Michaela Benson
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2018-05-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137511583

Leading scholars in the sociology of migration, Michaela Benson and Karen O’Reilly, re-theorise lifestyle migration through a sustained focus on postcolonialism at its intersections with neoliberalism. This book provides an in-depth analysis of the interplay of colonial traces and neoliberal presents, the relationship between residential tourism and economic development, and the governance and regulation of lifestyle migration. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork undertaken by the authors among lifestyle migrants in Malaysia and Panama, they reveal the structural and material conditions that support migration and how these are embodied by migrant subjects, while also highlighting their agency within this process. This rigorous work marks an important contribution to emerging debates surrounding privileged migration and mobility. It will appeal to sociologists, social theorists, human and cultural geographers, economists, social psychologists, demographers, social anthropologists, tourism and migration studies specialists.

Understanding Lifestyle Migration

Understanding Lifestyle Migration
Author: M. Benson
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 375
Release: 2014-06-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137328673

This book draws on social theories to understand lifestyle migration as a social phenomenon. The chapters engage theoretically with themes and debates relevant to contemporary social science such as place and space, social stratification and power relations, production and consumption, individualism, dwelling and imagination.

Global Injustice Symbols and Social Movements

Global Injustice Symbols and Social Movements
Author: T. Olesen
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2015-04-09
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 113748117X

Global Injustice Symbols and Social Movements examines our collective moral and political maps, dotted with symbols shaped by political dynamics beyond their local or national origin and offers the first systematic sociological treatment of this important phenomenon.

Social Tragedy

Social Tragedy
Author: S. Baker
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2014-06-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137379138

A social tragedy is a collective representation of injustice. Baker demonstrates how social tragedies facilitate moral action and discusses a series of contemporary case studies – the death of Princess Diana, Zinédine Zidane's 2006 World Cup scandal, KONY 2012 – to examine their social and political effects.

Routledge Handbook of Cultural Gerontology

Routledge Handbook of Cultural Gerontology
Author: Julia Twigg
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 503
Release: 2015-06-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1136221034

Later years are changing under the impact of demographic, social and cultural shifts. No longer confined to the sphere of social welfare, they are now studied within a wider cultural framework that encompasses new experiences and new modes of being. Drawing on influences from the arts and humanities, and deploying diverse methodologies – visual, literary, spatial – and theoretical perspectives Cultural Gerontology has brought new aspects of later life into view. This major new publication draws together these currents including: Theory and Methods; Embodiment; Identities and Social Relationships; Consumption and Leisure; and Time and Space. Based on specially commissioned chapters by leading international authors, the Routledge Handbook of Cultural Gerontology will provide concise authoritative reviews of the key debates and themes shaping this exciting new field.

Crossroads of Rural Crime

Crossroads of Rural Crime
Author: Alistair Harkness
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2021-05-19
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1800436440

Using the notion of ‘crossroads’ to provide a unique lens through which to examine the realities of rural crime, Crossroads of Rural Crime provides an understanding of the nature of rural life and ways in which transgression manifests itself in the context of a presumed rural-urban divide.

Rethinking Privilege and Social Mobility in Middle-Class Migration

Rethinking Privilege and Social Mobility in Middle-Class Migration
Author: Shanthi Robertson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 167
Release: 2022-03-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000567729

This volume explores the experiences of a wide variety of middle-class migrant groups across the globe, including ‘ethnic entrepreneurs’ building new businesses in cosmopolitan neighbourhoods in Sydney; Chinese grandparents shuttling between Australia, China and Singapore to support their extended families; well-off young Indians in Mumbai strategising their future education pathways overseas; and Japanese mothers finding ways to belong in a London middle-class neighbourhood. This book asks how relatively privileged migrant groups negotiate their life trajectories, relationships and aspirations while ‘on the move’ and how they transform the communities and societies that they move between across time and space. The book’s chapters consider motives for migration, as well as experiences of risk, uncertainty and insecurity in diverse local contexts. A fresh look at the migration of those who possess skills and resources that can bring about significant economic, social and cultural change, this book engages critically with the notions of ‘middling’ migration, social mobility and mobile privilege in the global context of hardening borders and immigration complexity. It will appeal to scholars with interests in contemporary forms of migration and mobility and their local and transnational consequences.