A Cosmopolitan Journey? Difference, distinction and identity work in gap year travel
- Submitting institution
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Manchester Metropolitan University
- Unit of assessment
- 21 - Sociology
- Output identifier
- 1897
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9781409453031
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2014
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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E - Space, Place, and Identity
- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This book is based on 4 years’ PhD research supported by an ESRC studentship: an analysis of travel blogs written by young people taking overseas ‘gap years’. The blog posts totalled more than 1 million words, supplemented by interviews. A Cosmopolitan Journey? revised and reframed this research to focus on a critical engagement with the concept of cosmopolitanism and the tension between progressive values and the reproduction of social inequality. It was shortlisted for the British Sociological Association’s Philip Abrams Memorial Prize for the best first and sole-authored book within the discipline of Sociology.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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