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UIUC KIN 249 - 8b sociology mobilities travel student

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Transnational Boarding Bodies Travel Tourism and Lifestyle Sport Migration Snowboarders experiences of travel and lifestyle sport migration influence their sense of cultural national and gender identity and reflexivity Thorpe p 191 Even while humans travel and migrate they are inextricably entangled with the material and social relations in local places Thorpe p 217 Transnationalism systems of ties interactions exchange mobility linking people and institutions across the borders of nation states cultural interconnections reach across the world Thorpe p 193 Human mobility contributes to a transnational imaginary Thorpe p 194 quoting Wilson Dissanayake traveling cultures traveling selves sociology of mobilities paradigms understand and study travel in terms of the sociology of groups of people diasporic experiences diaspora group of people who live outside the area from where they are from or in which their ancestors lived Lifestyle sport migrants commitment to a sport organizes participants whole lives participating in the particular sport is a way of life Transnational flows of youth cultural participation Who works Who pays Who plays Un settling experiences of lifestyle sport migration Independent solo travel affords empowerment especially to female snowboarders Narratives of transformation and reflexivity see 8a on travel Critique Be wary of romanticizing the effects of transnationalism and lifestyle migration Such travel may keep travelers in their own bounded communities they are oblivious to local regional and national differences Difficulties with retirement immobility life stages transitions Virtual travel Facebook email magazines websites real time film and communication Belonging through memory nostalgia imagination Lifestyle sport migrants share similar experiences see Thorpe p 211 All part of transnational imaginary lifestyle snowboarders share memory nostalgia connection Cultural hot spots Mountain resorts such as Chamonix France Queenstown New Zealand Whistler Canada At the hot spots cultural hierarchies are contested negotiated and reinforced Some groups and individuals engage in an array of overt and covert practices to regulate the allocation of capital symbolic cultural economic social linguistic national and gender within local fields Thorpe p 216 networks of power Films are cultural artifacts used in the course this week to map and highlight some aspects of the traveling cultures sociology of mobilities paradigm


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