Travelling Places: A Coda

  • John Thieme
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Abstract

This study has stressed that the identities of places are inextricably linked with the moments in which they are perceived, and many of the chronotopes that I have been considering, among them the zoo, the botanical garden and the global city, provide striking evidence of how places evolve through time. And, although the trajectories that these sites have followed are far from uniform, their evolution has characteristically involved a progression from being seen through the lenses of colonial allegory, in which places were, and sometimes still are, assigned fixed, ‘authentic’ meanings, towards formations shaped by mobility, migration and multiplicity. Similarly, notions of identity have shifted from singular, originary conceptions of self towards an awareness that subjectivity exists in cognitively plural environments. As Stuart Hall puts it:

Keywords

Global City Middle Passage Travel Writing Atlantic Slave Trade Archaeological Expedition 
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  • John Thieme
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  1. 1.University of East AngliaNorwichUK

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