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University of Otago

1. Perkins, Anita. Travel Texts and Moving Cultures: A German-focused Comparative Analysis in the Context of the Mobilities Turn .

Degree: 2013, University of Otago

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10523/4311

► How does the experience of travel transform culture over time? This is the question at the heart of my thesis, which brings together two main… (more)

▼ How does the experience of travel transform culture over time? This is the question at the heart of my thesis, which brings together two main areas of scholarship: the cultural analysis of literature and film, and the emerging field of mobilities studies. The objects of analysis are travel texts, i.e. literature and film critically engaged in the cultural experience of movement as travel. The selected texts, which are predominantly German, are (re)viewed within the context of the mobilities turn. This emerging methodological direction (re)conceives of cultures as mobile, and is set out paradigmatically in Mimi Sheller’s and John Urry’s article “The New Mobilities Paradigm” (2006). Mobilities scholars critique traditional sedentary perspectives of people and place, such as that which Martin Heidegger promotes in his essay “Bauen, Wohnen, Denken” (1951). My analysis generally draws on two main concepts or ways of being, namely dwelling, or remaining in one place, which connotes stability, groundedness and permanence, and mobility, or travel to other destinations, which connotes movement, change, and uncertainty. The main body of analysis is prefaced by an examination of the Greek epic, Homer’s Odyssey(ca. 750-700 BC).I consider Odysseus’s culturally foundational journey and the notion of his return to Ithaca as an ideal homecoming. Next, I review selected examples of travel writing from a historical period of significant social change defined by Reinhart Koselleckas the Sattelzeit, 1770-1830. During the Sattelzeita culture founded on mobilities emerged and the desire for travel opened up a space in which new supplementary ideas were formed in relation to technology, Bildung, and culture. Works analysed include Georg Forster’s A Voyage Round the World (1777), which describes the young German scientist’s journey to New Zealand with Captain Cook. I also examineAdelbert von Chamisso’s Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte (1814). This fictional narrative by the exiled French-German includes the notable image of a traveller who loses his shadow and thus human contact, but gains seven-league boots which enable enhanced worldwide travel. The Sattelzeit is then compared to the contemporary period of 1985-2010, which comprises two sections. In the first part encompassing 1985-1995,the central focus is onglobal turning point of 1989/90. The analysis of travel texts shows that travel is increasingly regarded as a human right. I look at the travel ideals of East German writers in the build-up to the Fall of the Berlin Wall, in Erich Loest’s novel Zwiebelmuster (1985) and Friedrich Christian Delius’s novella Der Spaziergang von Rostock nach Syrakus (1995). I argue that after 1989/90 the world reaches a point-of-no-return with regard to the global intensification of mobilities. This is intimated in Andrei Ujica’s documentary film Out of the Present (1995) via an extra-terrestrial filmicgaze and the obsolescence of the cosmonaut’s national identity. In the second part, encompassing 1995-2010, I evaluate how travellers experience… Advisors/Committee Members: Ryan, Simon (advisor).

Subjects/Keywords: German studies; travel writing; cultural studies; film; Sattelzeit; East Germany; Martin Heidegger; John Urry; Mimi Sheller; mobilities; Odyssey

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Perkins, A. (2013). Travel Texts and Moving Cultures: A German-focused Comparative Analysis in the Context of the Mobilities Turn . (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Otago. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10523/4311

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Perkins, Anita. “Travel Texts and Moving Cultures: A German-focused Comparative Analysis in the Context of the Mobilities Turn .” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Otago. Accessed January 25, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10523/4311.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Perkins, Anita. “Travel Texts and Moving Cultures: A German-focused Comparative Analysis in the Context of the Mobilities Turn .” 2013. Web. 25 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Perkins A. Travel Texts and Moving Cultures: A German-focused Comparative Analysis in the Context of the Mobilities Turn . [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Otago; 2013. [cited 2021 Jan 25]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10523/4311.

Council of Science Editors:

Perkins A. Travel Texts and Moving Cultures: A German-focused Comparative Analysis in the Context of the Mobilities Turn . [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Otago; 2013. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10523/4311

Stellenbosch University

2. Domingo-Salie, Nazli. Trans-local habitus: High school students’ mediation of their educational success at a Focus School.

Degree: DEd, 2016, Stellenbosch University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/100065

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ENGLISH ABSTRACT : Against the backdrop of school reform in South Africa, this dissertation analyses the practices of selected mobile students who accomplished their education… (more)

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ENGLISH ABSTRACT : Against the backdrop of school reform in South Africa, this dissertation analyses the practices of selected mobile students who accomplished their education ‘on the move’ between their working-class domestic environment and the dissonant terrain of the Focus School situated in a middle-class suburb. This study describes the navigational practices of the four students in their establishment of a successful educational path. Drawing on Bourdieu’s concepts of practice, habitus and field, augmented by Urry’s theory of mobility, this dissertation discusses the shifts and changes that the four students made as they moved between their domestic environments and the Focus School in order to access quality schooling. This study is based on qualitative data from in-depth, semi-structured interviews which are used to illustrate the navigation practices of the four students as they develop successful educational subjectivities – a trans-local habitus –as they move from their domestic locations to the new terrain of the Focus School. The study uses the analytical lens of trans-locality to explore how the four students shifted and adapted their educational subjectivities, developed social competency and established subjectivities that enabled them to become successful students at the Focus School. I argue that it is possible for historically disadvantaged, rural and township students to adapt to and meet the academic and behavioural standards of a new school context in the middle-class environment, and that they do this by establishing a trans-local habitus. Acquiring a trans-local habitus enables them to successfully shift and adapt their subjectivity ‘on the move’ across different contexts. A successful trans-local habitus is thus one that allows the individual, via their navigation across different field contexts, to successfully change or adapt their dispositions to the rules and regularities of the new field context. This study illustrates, therefore, the navigational bases upon which the four students transact their school-going experiences, in effect shifting their ‘habitus on the move’, as they figure out ways of achieving school success.

AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING : Geen Afrikaanse opsomming geskikbaar nie

Advisors/Committee Members: Fataar, Aslam, Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Education. Dept. Education Policy Studies.

Subjects/Keywords: High school children – South Africa; Bourdieu, Pierre – 1930-2002; UCTD; Focus Schools – South Africa; Urry, John Richard – 1946-2016; Habitus (sociology); Mobility theory; High schools – South Africa

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Domingo-Salie, N. (2016). Trans-local habitus: High school students’ mediation of their educational success at a Focus School. (Thesis). Stellenbosch University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/100065

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Domingo-Salie, Nazli. “Trans-local habitus: High school students’ mediation of their educational success at a Focus School.” 2016. Thesis, Stellenbosch University. Accessed January 25, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/100065.

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MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Domingo-Salie, Nazli. “Trans-local habitus: High school students’ mediation of their educational success at a Focus School.” 2016. Web. 25 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Domingo-Salie N. Trans-local habitus: High school students’ mediation of their educational success at a Focus School. [Internet] [Thesis]. Stellenbosch University; 2016. [cited 2021 Jan 25]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/100065.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Council of Science Editors:

Domingo-Salie N. Trans-local habitus: High school students’ mediation of their educational success at a Focus School. [Thesis]. Stellenbosch University; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/100065

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3. Lindstrom, Arin. P̶L̶A̶C̶E̶ : An Artist’s Experience in a Highly Mobile World.

Degree: 2011, Boise State University

URL: https://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/td/206

► In this highly mobile world, it is the undefined and in-between spaces encountered, such as while being in a car or train, that characterize the… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: video art; non-place; installation art; John Urry; Art Practice

…suggestive to a kind of virtual or parallel reality. Sociologist and author John Urry investigates… …communicates the level of impact that certain systems have on societies. John Urry describes this… …Ed.), 63. 2 Ibid., viii. 3 Urry, Mobilities, 47. 2 passenger in a moving vehicle… …through the non-place. Placing sociologist John Urry’s view of mobilities (See Page 3)… …structures and the systems people use. Urry informs how improvements in technologies…

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Lindstrom, A. (2011). P̶L̶A̶C̶E̶ : An Artist’s Experience in a Highly Mobile World. (Thesis). Boise State University. Retrieved from https://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/td/206

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Lindstrom, Arin. “P̶L̶A̶C̶E̶ : An Artist’s Experience in a Highly Mobile World.” 2011. Thesis, Boise State University. Accessed January 25, 2021. https://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/td/206.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Lindstrom, Arin. “P̶L̶A̶C̶E̶ : An Artist’s Experience in a Highly Mobile World.” 2011. Web. 25 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Lindstrom A. P̶L̶A̶C̶E̶ : An Artist’s Experience in a Highly Mobile World. [Internet] [Thesis]. Boise State University; 2011. [cited 2021 Jan 25]. Available from: https://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/td/206.

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Council of Science Editors:

Lindstrom A. P̶L̶A̶C̶E̶ : An Artist’s Experience in a Highly Mobile World. [Thesis]. Boise State University; 2011. Available from: https://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/td/206

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University of Texas – Austin

4. Shank, Joshua, 1980-. A plainspoken tragedy : the construction of two simultaneous tourist gazes in the Passion genre.

Degree: MM, Music, 2020, University of Texas – Austin

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.26153/tsw/8293

► The dramatic narrative of a Passion revolves around a central suffering figure who is worthy of pity and sorrow at the sight of the injustices… (more)

▼ The dramatic narrative of a Passion revolves around a central suffering figure who is worthy of pity and sorrow at the sight of the injustices visited upon them. From the outset of the genre until the late twentieth century when composers began composing Passions which did not use the Gospels as their basis, this central figure was the character of Jesus Christ. The narrative of the genre is fleshed out by secondary characters who either actively encourage the wrongs inflicted upon the central figure or do not attempt to stop them. Due to the fact that a Passion is a non-staged work, the dramatic action is described to the audience by an omniscient Narrator Voice (the Evangelist in traditional Passions). Audience members are also projected into the narrative itself by the use of a literary device, which is here termed “the Open Window.” This is the literary device used by the librettist which puts the audience member in the role of a watcher of the action, while simultaneously withholding her agency to prevent the suffering in the story. The window to the suffering figure’s predicament is open for the audience member to surveil the scene, but she has decided, for whatever reason(s), to remain silent by voluntarily gazing through the Open Window, a device she knows will remove her agency to act. The act of gazing is socially-constructed seeing. A person gazing at something is taking in what they see through a set prejudices, desires, past experiences, and thought processes. Gazing is culturally bound and anchored in the material world of places, things, people, and objects surrounding the person who is gazing, that at which they are gazing, and the various motivations behind that act. It manifests through the critical ways in which the individual engaged in the act of gazing interacts with the physical or imagined world they are gazing at. While film theorist Laura Mulvey’s concept of the Male Gaze is the most well-known example of this, British sociologist John Urry theorizes that there is a particular category of this act which is present in touristic situations: the Tourist Gaze. It occurs in settings in which an individual is gazing at a particular scene in order to imbue it with personal meaning. To see the Eiffel Tower on the Champs de Mar is to experience the constructed understanding of “Frenchness.” To visit Ellis Island in New York Harbor is, in the mind of a tourist, to experience a version of what it must have been like for immigrants to come to the United States in the first half of the twentieth century. Similarly, in the Passion genre, to imagine the violent scene of the Crucifixion is to be reminded of Christ’s sacrifice for the human race and one’s own possible culpability because of original sin. This document contends that the tourist gaze is a central element to the Passion genre, and it will examine the ways in which composers of Passions use two versions of it simultaneously: the Primary and the Imagined. The Primary Tourist Gaze occurs when an audience member journeys from her normal routine of… Advisors/Committee Members: Carson, Charles D. (Charles Daniel) (advisor).

Subjects/Keywords: Passion; Passion genre; Craig Hella Johnson; David Lang; Considering Matthew Shepard; Matthew Shepard; Tourist gaze; Tourism studies; Saint Matthew Passion; Little match girl Passion; Homophobia; LGBT; Gazing; John Urry; Musical Passion

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Shank, Joshua, 1. (2020). A plainspoken tragedy : the construction of two simultaneous tourist gazes in the Passion genre. (Masters Thesis). University of Texas – Austin. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.26153/tsw/8293

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Shank, Joshua, 1980-. “A plainspoken tragedy : the construction of two simultaneous tourist gazes in the Passion genre.” 2020. Masters Thesis, University of Texas – Austin. Accessed January 25, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.26153/tsw/8293.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Shank, Joshua, 1980-. “A plainspoken tragedy : the construction of two simultaneous tourist gazes in the Passion genre.” 2020. Web. 25 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Shank, Joshua 1. A plainspoken tragedy : the construction of two simultaneous tourist gazes in the Passion genre. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of Texas – Austin; 2020. [cited 2021 Jan 25]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.26153/tsw/8293.

Council of Science Editors:

Shank, Joshua 1. A plainspoken tragedy : the construction of two simultaneous tourist gazes in the Passion genre. [Masters Thesis]. University of Texas – Austin; 2020. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.26153/tsw/8293

5. Laine, Emmi. Desirability, Values and Ideology in CNN Travel – Discourse Analysis on Travel Stories.

Degree: Media Studies, 2013, Stockholm University

URL: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-102742

► Title: Values, Desirability and Ideology in CNN Travel – a Discourse Analysis on Travel Stories Author: Emmi Laine Course: Journalistikvetenskap, Kandidatkurs, H13 J Kand… (more)

▼ Title: Values, Desirability and Ideology in CNN Travel – a Discourse Analysis on Travel Stories Author: Emmi Laine Course: Journalistikvetenskap, Kandidatkurs, H13 J Kand (Bachelor of Journalism, Fall 2013), JMK, Stockholm University, Sweden Aim: The aim is to examine which values and ideologies CNN Travel fulfills in their stories. Method: Qualitative discourse analysis. Summary: This Bachelor ́s thesis asks what is desirable, which are the values of CNN Travel, the major U.S. news corporation CNN ́s online travel site. The question has been answered through a qualitative discourse analysis on 20 chosen travel stories, picked by their relevancy, diversity, and their expressive tone. Due to the limited space and the specific textual method, the analysis was restricted to the editorial texts of these stories. The chosen method was discourse analyst Norman Fairclough ́s model of evaluation, which revealed the explicit and implicit ways the media texts suggest desired characteristics. These linguistic devices took the readers ́ agreement for granted, as they imposed a shared cultural ground with common values, which is a base for a mutual understanding. After identifying the explicit and implicit evaluations, they were organized according to some major discursive themes found in the texts, and finally analyzed in order to expose their underlying values. The results showed how these certain values brought forth certain ideologies, to some extent in keeping with recent research of tourism and travel journalism. As the study has been put into a larger context of related research, the following pages will first explain some larger concepts of discourse analysis, such as representation, cultural stereotypes, ideology and power. A cross-section from older to more contemporary theories in culture studies has been utilized; moving from Edward Said ́s postcolonial classic Orientalism, an example of cultural stereotyping, to the more recent topics of ‘promotion culture’ and consumerism, and tourism researcher John Urry ́s ideas about the consumption of places and the ‘tourist gaze.’ In the end, the study considers what kind of power does travel journalism possess over the represented tourism destinations. Finally, when questioning the travel journalists ́ legitimacy and power to represent the travel destinations, poststructuralist Michel Foucault ́s theory about the ‘regime of truth,’ as well as Antonio Gramsci ́s ideas of ‘hegemony,’ theory of dominance through consent, were discussed and confirmed.

Subjects/Keywords: CNN Travel; travel journalism; online journalism; qualitative discourse analysis; Norman Fairclough´s model of evaluation; representation; values; ideology; power; Antonio Grasmci; hegemony; Michel Foucault; the regime of truth; consumerism; John Urry; the tourist gaze; Edward Said; othering.

…culture and time and are thus naturalized. John Urry has developed this term into ‘place-myths… …a place, as John Urry argumentated in his book Consuming Places (2002). These… …gaze, John Urry Tourism researcher John Urry has coined the practice of imaginary consumption… …participating in them John Urry would point out that the praise to the Budapest Zoo prepared some of… …Studies, Roskilde University, Denmark, 2004, p. 28. 11 S. Lash, J. Urry, Economies of signs and…

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Laine, E. (2013). Desirability, Values and Ideology in CNN Travel – Discourse Analysis on Travel Stories. (Thesis). Stockholm University. Retrieved from http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-102742

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Laine, Emmi. “Desirability, Values and Ideology in CNN Travel – Discourse Analysis on Travel Stories.” 2013. Thesis, Stockholm University. Accessed January 25, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-102742.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Laine, Emmi. “Desirability, Values and Ideology in CNN Travel – Discourse Analysis on Travel Stories.” 2013. Web. 25 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Laine E. Desirability, Values and Ideology in CNN Travel – Discourse Analysis on Travel Stories. [Internet] [Thesis]. Stockholm University; 2013. [cited 2021 Jan 25]. Available from: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-102742.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Council of Science Editors:

Laine E. Desirability, Values and Ideology in CNN Travel – Discourse Analysis on Travel Stories. [Thesis]. Stockholm University; 2013. Available from: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-102742

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

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