This Article Full Text (PDF) References Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Alert me to new issues of the journal Add to Saved Citations Download to citation manager Request Permissions Request Reprints Add to My Marked Citations Citing Articles Citing Articles via Google Scholar Citing Articles via Scopus Google Scholar Articles by Sikes, P. Search for Related Content Social Bookmarking                         What's this?

Travel Broadens the Mind or Making the Strange Familiar

The Story of a Visiting Academic

University of Sheffield, UK

This article tells an autoethnographic story of the ways in which a specific tourist experience—visiting a "girlie" bar in Bangkok—led me to reflect afresh on themes, issues, and concerns that have always been central to my work as a researcher and academic, namely, storying lives, autobiography and/or biography, identities and careers, giving voice, Othering, representation, social justice, and making the familiar strange. Most of all, however, the experience strengthened my commitment to the need to recognize the way in which the strange is familiar and to "acknowledge how much ‘out there’is like, ‘in here’" (Neumann, 1996, p. 182).

Key Words: narrative • autoethnography • othering • identity • sex tourism

Qualitative Inquiry, Vol. 12, No. 3, 523-540 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/1077800405282802


CiteULike    Complore    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter    What's this?