[Commlist] Book: Magical realist sociologies of belonging and becoming: the explorer

New book: Magical realist sociologies of belonging and becoming: the 
explorer

      Rodanthi Tzanelli University of Leeds


      Description

At the bottom of the sea, freedivers find that the world bestows humans 
with the magic of bodily and mental freedom, binding them in small 
communities of play, affect and respect for nature. On land, rational 
human interests dissolve this magic into prescriptive formulas of 
belonging to a profession, a nation and an acceptable modernity. The 
magical exploration is morphed by such multiple interventions 
successively from a pilgrimage, to a cinematic and digital articulation 
of an anarchic project, to an exercise in national citizenship and 
finally, a projection of post-imperial cosmopolitan belonging.

This is the story of an embodied, relational and affective journey: the 
making of the explorer of worlds. At its heart stands a clash between 
individual and collective desires to belong, aspirations to create and 
the pragmatics of becoming recognised by others. The primary empirical 
context in which this is played is the contemporary margins of European 
modernity: the post-troika Greece. With the project of a freediving 
artist, who stages an Underwater Gallery outside the iconic island of 
Amorgos, as a sociological spyglass, it examines the networks of 
mobility that both individuals and nations have to enter to achieve 
international recognition, often at the expense of personal freedom and 
alternative pathways to modernity.

Inspired by fusions of cultural pragmatics, phenomenology, phanerology, 
the morphogenetic approach, feminist posthumanism and especially 
postcolonial theories of magical realism, this study examines 
interconnected variations of identity and subjectivity in contexts of 
contemporary mobility (digital and embodied travel/tourism). As a study 
of cultural emergism, the book will be of interest to students and 
scholars in critical theory, cultural, postcolonial and decolonial 
studies, and tourism/pilgrimage theory.

Routledge link:  
https://www.routledge.com/Magical-Realist-Sociologies-of-Belonging-and-Becoming-The-Explorer/Tzanelli/p/book/9780367432393


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