Digital and non-digital representations as actors in the enactment of selfhood and community on the Appalachian Trail

McLaughlin, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5010-1358 (2023) Digital and non-digital representations as actors in the enactment of selfhood and community on the Appalachian Trail. Social & Cultural Geography, 24 (6). pp. 912-929. ISSN 1464-9365

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Abstract

Cultural geographers working with non-representational theories have recently returned to thinking about representations as actors in the relational processes of making spaces, selfhood and commu-nities. A particular focus for studies of literary texts is examining how representation ‘takes place’, how texts are part of what hap-pens in the world, and how we can better understand the force of representations-in-relation at work. In this paper I will address this question, by examining the role that representations play as actors in the production of community and selfhood among hikers on the Appalachian Trail. As hiker representations straddle digital and non- digital media in the twenty-first century, scholarly approaches con-tinue to view them as little more than mediators, or ersatz forms of, in-person speech. Here, I take a non-representational approach to hiker writings to focus on the relationships that develop between AT hikers and the writings they encounter as a means of under-standing how these representations-in-relation take place on the trail, and how they contribute to what happens – that is, to the production of community and subjectivity among Appalachian Trail hikers

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	non-representational,digital geographies,hiking,stories,appalachian trail,selfhood,stories,digital geographies,hiking,selfhood,geography, planning and development,cultural studies ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3305
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences
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Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	20 Jan 2023 13:30
Last Modified:	19 Jun 2023 08:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/90669
DOI:	10.1080/14649365.2021.2000015

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