Understanding Lifestyle Migration
Theoretical Approaches to Migration and the Quest for a Better Way of Life
Published on 1. January 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
XII, 249 pages
978-1-349-46045-8 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Series
Edition
1st ed. 2014
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
XII, 249 p.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
322 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-349-46045-8 (9781349460458)
DOI
10.1057/9781137328670
Schweitzer Classification
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Additional editions
M. Benson | N. Osbaldiston
Understanding Lifestyle Migration
Theoretical Approaches to Migration and the Quest for a Better Way of Life
Book
05/2014
Palgrave Macmillan
€53.49
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Persons
David Griffiths, independent writer, UK
Keith Halfacree, Swansea University, UK
Brian Hoey, Marshall University, US
Mari Korpela, University of Tampere, Finland
Stella Maile, University of the West of England, UK
Karen O'Reilly, Loughborough University, UK
Noel Salazar, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Jonathan Taggart, photographer and writer, Canada
Phillip Vannini, Royal Roads University, Canada
Content
1. New Horizons in Lifestyle Migration Research: Theorising Movement, Settlement and the Search for a Better Way of Life; Michaela Benson and Nick Osbaldiston PART I: CONSTRAINTS AND OPPORTUNITIES 2. Lifestyle of Freedom? Individualism and Lifestyle Migration; Mari Korpela 3. Negotiating privilege in and through lifestyle migration; Michaela Benson PART II: REVISITING ASSUMPTIONS 4. Theorising the 'Fifth Migration' in the United States: Understanding Lifestyle Migration from an Integrated Approach; Brian Hoey 5. Jumping up from the Armchair: Beyond the Idyll in Counterurbanisation; Keith Halfacree PART III: SPACES OF IMAGINATION 6. Migrating Imaginaries of a Better Life... Until Paradise Finds You; Noel B. Salazar 7. Britons in Berlin: Imagined Cityscapes, Affective Encounters and the Cultivation of the Self; David Griffiths and Stella Maile PART IV: STILLNESS AND SEDENTARINESS 8. Beyond Ahistoricity and Mobilities in Lifestyle Migration; Nick Osbaldiston 9. No Man can be an Island: Lifestyle Migration, Stillness, and the New Quietism; Phillip Vannini and Jonathan Taggart PART V: LOOKING ONWARDS AND OUTWARDS 10. The role of the Social Imaginary in Lifestyle Migration: Employing the Ontology of Practice Theory; Karen O'Reilly