A search for meaningful place: Lifestyle migrations and mobilities in Tofino, British Columbia

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dc.contributor.authorMara, Gabriel
dc.date.accessioned2022-07-18T17:02:46Z
dc.date.available2022-07-18T17:02:46Z
dc.date.copyright2022en_US
dc.date.issued2022-07-18
dc.description.abstractThis paper focuses on the social phenomenon of lifestyle migration in connection to individuals living in Tofino, British Columbia. Based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out in Tofino, this paper asks the question of how participants create narratives around their lifestyle choices of neonomadic mobility. To help explore this question, three modes of analyses are applied: (1) looking to the figure of the nomad in history and as metaphor, (2) looking to contemporary forces and perceptions of being in postmodern landscapes as motivations to participate, and (3) how the embodied experience of place is felt. The study concludes that the social imaginaries of places such as Tofino both attract neonomadic travelers while also helping to perpetuating the nomadic state due to its empirical realities.en_US
dc.description.reviewstatusRevieweden_US
dc.description.scholarlevelUndergraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/14065
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectneonomaden_US
dc.subjectlifestyle migrationen_US
dc.subjectgeopoeticsen_US
dc.subjecthomeen_US
dc.subjectTofinoen_US
dc.subjectnomaden_US
dc.subjectvanlifeen_US
dc.subjectethnographyen_US
dc.titleA search for meaningful place: Lifestyle migrations and mobilities in Tofino, British Columbiaen_US
dc.typeHonours thesisen_US

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