Abstract
Corporeal travel is deeply entwined in daily experiences, performances, sensualities, imaginings, memories, communications and mobilities. Methods that can observe lived experience over an extended period need to be employed. This chapter reflects upon methods used in an ongoing exploration of transformation through travel. Commencing in 2005, the study utilizes email interviews, in a longitudinal design, to investigate the accounts of individuals who believe they have been transformed by physical travel. The chapter explores how these corporeal travel experiences and transformations intersect with other mobilities and experiences over the respondent’s life course. Throughout history, physical travel has been viewed as both an agent of individual and social transformation. Drawing upon participant feedback and literature on email interviews and longitudinal research, the chapter provides a series of considerations for other researchers who may want to employ a similar methodological design in their own projects.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Lifestyle Mobilities |
| Subtitle of host publication | Intersections of Travel, Leisure and Migration |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
| Pages | 99-112 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781317105138 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781409453710 |
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| Publication status | Published - 6 May 2016 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© Tara Duncan, Scott A. Cohen, Maria Thulemark and the contributors 2013.