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Magical Realist Sociologies of Belonging and Becoming - The Explorer (Paperback)
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Magical Realist Sociologies of Belonging and Becoming - The Explorer (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology
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At the bottom of the sea, freedivers find that the world bestows
humans with the magic of bodily and mental freedom, binding them in
small communities of play, affect and respect for nature. On land,
rational human interests dissolve this magic into prescriptive
formulas of belonging to a profession, a nation and an acceptable
modernity. The magical exploration is morphed by such multiple
interventions successively from a pilgrimage, to a cinematic and
digital articulation of an anarchic project, to an exercise in
national citizenship and finally, a projection of post-imperial
cosmopolitan belonging. This is the story of an embodied,
relational and affective journey: the making of the explorer of
worlds. At its heart stands a clash between individual and
collective desires to belong, aspirations to create and the
pragmatics of becoming recognised by others. The primary empirical
context in which this is played is the contemporary margins of
European modernity: the post-troika Greece. With the project of a
freediving artist, who stages an Underwater Gallery outside the
iconic island of Amorgos, as a sociological spyglass, it examines
the networks of mobility that both individuals and nations have to
enter to achieve international recognition, often at the expense of
personal freedom and alternative pathways to modernity. Inspired by
fusions of cultural pragmatics, phenomenology, phanerology, the
morphogenetic approach, feminist posthumanism and especially
postcolonial theories of magical realism, this study examines
interconnected variations of identity and subjectivity in contexts
of contemporary mobility (digital and embodied travel/tourism). As
a study of cultural emergism, the book will be of interest to
students and scholars in critical theory, cultural, postcolonial
and decolonial studies, and tourism/pilgrimage theory.
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