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Article: Anywhere but here: Experiences of islandness in Pearl River Delta island tourism
Title | Anywhere but here: Experiences of islandness in Pearl River Delta island tourism |
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Authors | |
Keywords | China Experience Island tourism Islandness Islands Pearl river delta Phenomenology Place |
Issue Date | 2020 |
Publisher | University of Prince Edward Island, Institute of Island Studies. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.islandstudies.ca/journal |
Citation | Island Studies Journal, 2020, v. 15, p. 205-220 How to Cite? |
Abstract | This study considers the phenomenology of ‘islandness’ by analysing the experiences of tourists, islanders, and migrant tourism workers on two Chinese islands in the South China Sea. Although we begin by presuming place to be a phenomenological concept centring on ‘being-in-the-world’, we find that people’s experiences both on and off the islands of Dong’ao and Wailingding engender a desire to ‘be-in-many-worlds’ at once. Findings drawn from three months of ethnographic fieldwork suggest that while tourists privilege ‘being-at-the-seaside’, long-term residents prioritize being both ‘on’ and ‘off’ the island. Meanwhile, migrant tourism workers’ sense of islandness emerges from ‘being-at-theseaside’ and ‘being on-the-island’. In all cases, we find that islands challenge people’s desires to dwell in just one specific place to which they have an attachment. We argue that this liminal place attachment arises partly because the physical geography of islands, being surrounded by the sea, facilitates movement and may prompt a longing for elsewhere. Our findings have consequences for the phenomenology of place, which assumes that people have an innate desire to be somewhere. Yet thinking through and from islands shows that people equally wish to be somewhere else, too. The manifold human experiences of islandness underscore the need for a more relational phenomenology of place based not just on ‘being-in-the-world’, but rather ‘in-many worlds’ at once. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/283753 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 1.7 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.838 |
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dc.contributor.author | Wang, Z | - |
dc.contributor.author | Bennett, MM | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-07-03T08:23:35Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2020-07-03T08:23:35Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2020 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Island Studies Journal, 2020, v. 15, p. 205-220 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 1715-2593 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/283753 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This study considers the phenomenology of ‘islandness’ by analysing the experiences of tourists, islanders, and migrant tourism workers on two Chinese islands in the South China Sea. Although we begin by presuming place to be a phenomenological concept centring on ‘being-in-the-world’, we find that people’s experiences both on and off the islands of Dong’ao and Wailingding engender a desire to ‘be-in-many-worlds’ at once. Findings drawn from three months of ethnographic fieldwork suggest that while tourists privilege ‘being-at-the-seaside’, long-term residents prioritize being both ‘on’ and ‘off’ the island. Meanwhile, migrant tourism workers’ sense of islandness emerges from ‘being-at-theseaside’ and ‘being on-the-island’. In all cases, we find that islands challenge people’s desires to dwell in just one specific place to which they have an attachment. We argue that this liminal place attachment arises partly because the physical geography of islands, being surrounded by the sea, facilitates movement and may prompt a longing for elsewhere. Our findings have consequences for the phenomenology of place, which assumes that people have an innate desire to be somewhere. Yet thinking through and from islands shows that people equally wish to be somewhere else, too. The manifold human experiences of islandness underscore the need for a more relational phenomenology of place based not just on ‘being-in-the-world’, but rather ‘in-many worlds’ at once. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | University of Prince Edward Island, Institute of Island Studies. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.islandstudies.ca/journal | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Island Studies Journal | - |
dc.subject | China | - |
dc.subject | Experience | - |
dc.subject | Island tourism | - |
dc.subject | Islandness | - |
dc.subject | Islands | - |
dc.subject | Pearl river delta | - |
dc.subject | Phenomenology | - |
dc.subject | Place | - |
dc.title | Anywhere but here: Experiences of islandness in Pearl River Delta island tourism | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.email | Bennett, MM: mbennett@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Bennett, MM=rp02356 | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.24043/isj.115 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85086267636 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 310709 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 15 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 205 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 220 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000532728100011 | - |
dc.publisher.place | Canada | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 1715-2593 | - |