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Malleable words

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: The beach as liminal space, where unforeseeable encounters take place and transformation seems to dominate, is not only found to be a historical setting like that of first encounters in colonial contexts or as a place where one may be lost, but is also – invested with more banality and silliness – a mass tourism site, where it provides consumable liminalities. At El Arenal on the island of Mallorca, the beach combines, in curious ways, various such commodified forms of liminality, which, probably most saliently, are constructed as various forms of southernness.

Source: The Mouth - Critical Studies on Language, Culture and Society

DOI: 10.18716/ojs/the_mouth.2627

Authors: Storch, Anne, Mietzner, Angelika, Nassenstein, Nico, Traber, Janine, Schneider, Nina

Institutions: University of Cologne, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, University of Duisburg-Essen

Language: English

Topic: Spatial and Cultural Studies

Subfield: Geography, Planning and Development

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W6906626266

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