Seeking Authenticity in Place, Culture, and the Self
The Great Urban Escape
Authors: Osbaldiston, N.
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- About this book
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In recent times, there has been a substantial push by people to escape the metropolis for lifestyles in small coastal, country, or mountainside locales. This book explores the narratives emerging from amenity-left migration using methods developed within the 'strong' cultural sociology.
- About the authors
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Nicholas Osbaldiston is a Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Resource Management and Geography, University of Melbourne
- Reviews
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"This fine book significantly contributes to our understanding of modern social and emotional life. Written from a neo-Durkheimian perspective, it persuasively demonstrates that the contemporary search for a bucolic Eden derives from a pervasive desire for authenticity and self-realization. The unintended consequence is that the 'last real places' tend to evolve into overcrowded playgrounds for the rich. This irony, and much else, is fully explored in a text that is both sophisticated and elegiac." - Charles Lindholm, University Professor of Anthropology, Boston University
"In this pioneering book, Osbaldiston sheds light on the cultural phenomenon of seachange, the migration of urbanites in search of meaning. Through the lens of cultural sociology, he presents a compelling and theoretically rigorous argument for how the construction of authentic places by planners, promoters, and seachangers is thoroughly and inextricably entangled with a sense of the authentic self. The result is unmatched, with Osbaldiston narrating a nuanced and thoroughly engaging account of the impact of seachange on places and on individuals." - Michaela Benson, author of The British in Rural France
- Table of contents (7 chapters)
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The Great Urban Escape
Pages 1-27
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The Promises of the Natural World: Escaping the City for Pristine Landscapes
Pages 29-50
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A Sense of Community: Cultural Heritage, Nostalgia, and Sociability
Pages 51-71
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The Culture of Planning: Coding in Policy Initiative
Pages 73-90
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The Perils of Seachange: Threats, Unintended Consequences, and the Future of Place
Pages 91-109
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Seeking Authenticity in Place, Culture, and the Self
- Book Subtitle
- The Great Urban Escape
- Authors
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- N. Osbaldiston
- Series Title
- Cultural Sociology
- Copyright
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan US
- Copyright Holder
- Nicholas Osbaldiston
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-00763-6
- DOI
- 10.1057/9781137007636
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-137-00761-2
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-43538-8
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XI, 175
- Number of Illustrations
- 4 b/w illustrations
- Topics
