Performing cities: Engaging the high-tech fl�neur
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Date
2011
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The Forum on Education Abroad
Abstract
The city as place forms the backdrop to many study abroad experiences.
Our sense of place, however, is often fractured by modern mobilities. As
Sack (1988) notes, we move from place to place so much that places often
begin to appear ever more generic and alike. Or they seem to be �out there,�
and we forget that they are humanly constructed. If we now have trouble
conceptualizing place, when we turn to cities in particular, we also find that
they are being submerged into a discourse of sameness where today�s �global
cities� are portrayed as almost cookie-cutter copies of one another in their
consumption-based, high tech identities. Yet the culture-neutral character
of this discourse about contemporary cities belies the cultural-historical personality
that each city retains, and it can obscure or even erase the rich placespecific
learning opportunities that each city offers.
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Study abroad, Travel, Travel writing, Urban landscape
Citation
Rodriguez, K. and Rink, B. (2011). Performing cities: Engaging the high-tech fl�neur. Frontiers. Vol20: 103-119.