By Michaela Benson My latest article based on my fieldwork among the British residents of rural France has just been published in a special issue of Anthropological Quarterly on authenticities. This develops further my argument about the relationship between lifestyle migration and middle-class engagements in processes of social distinction. Abstract: For the British residents of rural France, … Continue reading Living the “Real” Dream in la France profonde? Lifestyle Migration, Social Distinction, and the Authenticities of Everyday Life
Author: Dr Michaela Benson
Seasonal Lifestyle Tourism: the case of Chinese elites
By Noel Salazar Seasonal Lifestyle Tourism: The Case of Chinese Elites Noel B. Salazar (University of Leuven, Belgium) and Yang Zhang (Macao University of Science and Technology, China) Annals of Tourism Research Volume 43, October 2013, Pages 81–99 This article analyzes Chinese seasonal tourists, whose cultural practices originate from and provide new meaning to traditional … Continue reading Seasonal Lifestyle Tourism: the case of Chinese elites
Promoting Swedish countryside in the Netherlands: international rural place marketing to attract new residents
By Marco Eimmermann My paper, Promoting Swedish Countryside in the Netherlands is published in European Urban and Regional Studies (DOI: 10.1177/0969776413481370). Its aim is to examine international rural place marketing efforts by Swedish municipalities in Dalarna and Bergslagen, toward affluent West-European migrants, exemplified by campaigns in the Netherlands. Four research questions are addressed in this study; … Continue reading Promoting Swedish countryside in the Netherlands: international rural place marketing to attract new residents
The rising tide of sea change
By Nick Osbaldiston and Felicity Picken Australians are known for their love affair with the beach. While domestic tourism decreases in favour of overseas destinations, this is not before the narrative of retiring to sun, sand and sea has become embedded in our culture. Even before the ABC drama Seachange, demographers like Burnley and Murphy … Continue reading The rising tide of sea change
The first book review for the blog!
One of the things I had hoped for with this blog, was that it would be a space where we could share resources and materials. A critical part of the academic habitus is the critical reading of literature. Here, in the first of what I hope will be many book reviews, Roger Norum discusses a … Continue reading The first book review for the blog!
Call for papers – upcoming conference ‘Practising the Good Life’
The Call for Papers is now open for the International Conference: Practising the Good Life/The Good Life in Practices, to be held at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal) on October 17th/18th 2013. This will be the first conference in Portugal solely dedicated to Lifestyle Mobilities. The conference is free of charge, but is limited to a … Continue reading Call for papers – upcoming conference ‘Practising the Good Life’
Teaching on Lifestyle Migration
By Michaela Benson For the last few years, I had the opportunity to teach lifestyle migration within the Tourism Geographies course run by the University of Western England, an opportunity that started with an invitation from Maria Casado-Diaz. Now that I have moved to the University of York, I have found opportunities to develop my … Continue reading Teaching on Lifestyle Migration
Plotting Lifestyle Migration VI: Exploring Dutch migration to rural Sweden
By Marco Eimerman (Örebro University, Sweden) Over the past ten years or so, an increasing number of Dutch have become interested in living in rural Sweden. This trend is mirrored in a number of annual Emigration Expos and information meetings, one of which is visited by approximately 12,000 visitors. At this Expo – the largest … Continue reading Plotting Lifestyle Migration VI: Exploring Dutch migration to rural Sweden
Plotting Lifestyle Migration V: When Austrians move to New Zealand
Freedom, lifestyle and opportunity By Johanna Stadlbauer (University of Graz, Austria) In 2007 I spent three months in New Zealand to live and talk with Austrians who made this country, situated on the opposite hemisphere to their birthplace, their new home. What I found were stories about their “newly found sense of freedom and possibility” … Continue reading Plotting Lifestyle Migration V: When Austrians move to New Zealand
Plotting Lifestyle Migration Part IV: liveaboard lifestyle migrants in the Mediterranean
By Nataša Rogelja A few years ago I lost my job, sold my apartment, and embarked together with my family on a sailing boat, sailed around the Mediterranean, wrote articles for touristic magazines and - as an anthropologist - I was of course doing also an ethnographic research among liveabaords in Mediterranean. Since the beginning … Continue reading Plotting Lifestyle Migration Part IV: liveaboard lifestyle migrants in the Mediterranean
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