By Robert C. Ford

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How is it that we are alert to the pain of the exile, the yearnings of the dispossessed, the liminal experiences of backpackers and overseas volunteers, the anguish of forced migration, the desire to change our bodies, the quest for selfknowledge, the journeys of outsiders, artists and poets, the need for transcendence, the search for ‘wholeness’ in places/worlds deemed fractured, splintered and empty of meaning? The visibility, the understanding and the emotional resonances – often powerfully evoked and felt – by individual subjects that we meet in this collection are, in turn, dependent on our ability as readers to not just empathise but recognise and know.

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Lifestyle Travel, Tropophila and Identity Transformation 37 Felicity stressed the value of Couch Surfing for transforming the self in this way. Rather than merely spectating from the peripheries, Couch Surfing allowed her to participate and engage with place, to temporarily become a part of it through activity. Participation meant lifestyle travellers reciprocally acted within place and proactively tested themselves in a new environment: It’s easier to go to a place and look at it from the eyes of a tourist you know, wander round and you’re almost just consuming the place, visually and passively, you’re not really participating.

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