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HUMAN GEOGRAPHY  2021, Vol. 36 Issue (4): 61-71,79    DOI: 10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2021.04.008
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FROM OFFSITE SPACE TO HETEROGENEOUS SPACE: THE SELF-CONSTRUCTION OF THE POST-90S FEMALE TRAVELLER' S BODY
HAO Xiao-fei, CHEN Han-hui
School of Tourism Management, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai 519082, China

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Abstract  The body in different spaces is a hot topic in human geography, and tourism as a leisure activity provides specific contexts for the body and its practices. Along with the iteration of Internet technology, tourists can be "in" the geographical physical space and digital virtual space. Focusing on female travelers who share travel photos in different social media, this study analyzes how they use their bodies for self-construction in travel contexts, involving both offsite spaces-photos of the included body taken by travelers in other places of travel-and heterogeneous spaces-the included body photos shared by the tourist in the virtual space of social media. Considering that the case population needs to have the habit and skill of sharing travel photos on social media, this paper takes post-90s women as the research object and focuses on the following research questions:What kind of self-construction do post-90s women perform through their bodies in the travel heterogeneous space? What role do their bodies play in the travel context? How do their travel photos construct their bodies in the virtual heterogeneous space of social media? Using in-depth interview method and grounded theory analysis of the interview texts, 16 categories, 7 main categories and 1 core category are extracted through open coding, main axis coding and selective coding. The study found that:1) Women "awaken" their bodies in order to break free from the constraints and break away from the everyday; 2) although the post-90s women are gradually evoking their bodies' self-awareness and breaking the "commodification" and "mythologization" of women's bodies under the influence of consumerism, their bodies are still oppressed by daily aesthetic standards and the surveillance of the other to a certain extent.
Key wordsfemale body      self-construction      tourist destination space      social media virtual space      grounded theory     
Received: 29 October 2020     
PACS: K901.6  
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HAO Xiao-fei,CHEN Han-hui. FROM OFFSITE SPACE TO HETEROGENEOUS SPACE: THE SELF-CONSTRUCTION OF THE POST-90S FEMALE TRAVELLER' S BODY[J]. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 2021, 36(4): 61-71,79.
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