Digital and non-digital representations as actors in the enactment of selfhood and community on the Appalachian Trail
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3977341 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniel Mclaughlin (0000-0002-5010-1358, Coventry University, corresponding author), David Mclaughlin (Coventry University) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 912-929 |
| Publication date | 2023-07-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social & Cultural Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1464-9365 • E-ISSN: 1470-1197 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14649365.2021.2000015 |
| OpenAlex | W3213456582 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 40 |
Cultural geographers working with non-representational theories have recently returned to thinking about representations as actors in the relational processes of making spaces, selfhood and commu-nities. A particular focus for studies of literary texts is examining how representation ‘takes place’, how texts are part of what hap-pens in the world, and how we can better understand the force of representations-in-relation at work. In this paper I will address this question, by examining the role that representations play as actors in the production of community and selfhood among hikers on the Appalachian Trail. As hiker representations straddle digital and non- digital media in the twenty-first century, scholarly approaches con-tinue to view them as little more than mediators, or ersatz forms of, in-person speech. Here, I take a non-representational approach to hiker writings to focus on the relationships that develop between AT hikers and the writings they encounter as a means of under-standing how these representations-in-relation take place on the trail, and how they contribute to what happens – that is, to the production of community and subjectivity among Appalachian Trail hikers
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Focus (optics · Political science · Politics · Relation (database · Representation (politics · Sociology · Straddle · Subjectivity · Computer Science · Focus Groups and Qualitative Methods · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Philosophy
Story Line
Delegitimizing wilderness as the man cave
Alone but Together
Digital turn, digital geographies
A Comparison of Hiking Communities on the Appalachian and Pacific Crest Trails
Predictors of Behavioral Loyalty Among Hikers Along the Appalachian Trail
An Examination of the Relationship between Leisure Activity Involvement and Place Attachment among Hikers Along the Appalachian Trail
Why Hiking? Rationality and Reflexivity Within Three Categories of Meaning Construction
Serious leisure is social
The long-distance hiking social world along the Pacific Crest Trail
Talking whilst walking
A Place for Other Stories
An essay on ascending Glastonbury Tor
Cultural geography II
Cultural geography and enchantment
Recovering inspiration in the spaces of creative writing
New geographies of story and storytelling
Towards a critical geography of disaster recovery politics
Geography's literature
A single day's walking
Text as It Happens
Unlikely hikers? Activism, Instagram, and the queer mobilities of fat hikers, women hiking alone, and hikers of colour
Mediated Pedestrian Mobility
Landscape, mobility, practice
Feeling through the screen
Readers-in-conversations
White environmental subjectivity and the politics of belonging
Literary geography
Transient dwelling
The Map, the Other and the public visual image
Thinking of the landin that way
Words and worlds
Excursions - telling stories and journeys
Transgressive Little Pests
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |