{"product_id":"the-nomads-of-mykonos-performing-liminalities-in-a-queer-space-9781845454661","title":"The Nomads of Mykonos: Performing Liminalities in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tThis is the ethnography of the \u003ci\u003eMykoniots d’élection\u003c\/i\u003e, a ‘gang’ of romantic adventurers who have been visiting the island of Mykonos for the last thirty-five years and have formed a community of dispersed friends. Their constant return to and insistence on working, acting and creating in a tourist space, offers them an extreme identity, which in turn is aesthetically marked by the transient cultural properties of Mykonos. Drawing semiotically from its ancient counterpart Delos, whose myth of emergence entails a spatial restlessness, contemporary Mykonos also acquires an idiosyncratic fluidity. In mythology Delos, the island of Apollo, was condemned by the gods to be an island in constant movement. Mykonos, as a signifier of a new form of ontological nomadism, semiotically shares such assumptions. The \u003ci\u003eNomads of Mykonos\u003c\/i\u003e keep returning to a series of alternative affective groups largely in order to heal a split: between their desire for autonomy, rebellion and aloneness and their need to affectively belong to a collectivity. Mykonos for the \u003ci\u003eMykoniots d’élection\u003c\/i\u003e is their permanent ‘stopover’; their regular comings and goings discursively project onto Mykonos’ space an allegorical (discordant) notion of ‘home’.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“…an enticing and vibrant ethnographic text, full of insightful comments which follow diverse strands of theoretical discussion…a genuine piece of postmodern performative ethnography.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• JRAI\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“…a thought-provoking exploration of ethnography, social theory…a unique and provocative intervention into the “status quo” of ethnographic writing and explanation. The book refuses and transgresses coherencies and dichotomies in ways that ultimately reveal our own desire for ‘neatly’ organized and compartmentalized theory and ethnography, and I think this is precisely what Bousiou set out to do: to ask where, in theory, a world of nomadic tourists, hedonists, and ‘extreme individuals’ leaves us.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• H-Net Reviews\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“This publication makes for fascinating reading. It has substantial value in developing theoretical understanding of tourist praxis and as a guide to deep engagement in field work in both disciplines.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Tourism Geographies\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e \tNote on transliteration\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/b\u003e Mykonos: the building of a liminal space-myth\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/b\u003e Narratives of belonging: the myth of an ‘indigenous’ otherness\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/b\u003e Narratives of the self: an eccentric myth of otherness\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/b\u003e Narratives of place: a spatial myth of otherness\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/b\u003e Narratives of difference: an aesthetic myth of otherness\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eConclusion\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eEpilogue:\u003c\/b\u003e A beach farewell\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eAppendix I:\u003c\/b\u003e The problem of agency in the Greek ethnographic subject\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eAppendix II:\u003c\/b\u003e The emergence of the sensual post-tourist: consuming ‘cultures’, multisubjective selves and (trans)local spaces\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tGlossary\u003cbr\u003e \tBibliography\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042976792919,"sku":"9781845454661","price":26.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781845454661.jpg?v=1750956481","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-nomads-of-mykonos-performing-liminalities-in-a-queer-space-9781845454661","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}