We demonstrate the importance of lifestyle and experiential places within a global differentiated higher education landscape and argue that many students engage in comparative narratives of place of study to authorise the symbolic capital associated with international education.
This analysis demonstrates the importance of listening to narratives of place attachment and accounting for the cultural logics of livelihood choices when considering interventions to address human wildlife conflict.
Sketching personal narratives of place that have a focus on the choices made in the past and their physical expressions as indicated on the maps, future options and visions are illustrated.
An explicit attempt to provide a conceptual analysis of a different sort is found in Siipi 2008, while an account of naturalness linking this to historical narratives of place is given in O'Neill, Holland and Light 2008, ch. 8 (compare the response to this in Siipi 2011).
I was also intrigued by narratives of place and how we access them.
Just like the cut-and-paste-and-edit method of their globe-spanning music pastiche, narratives of place and origin are hard to pin down on Nguzunguzu.
As he sat in his current apartment, scrolling through photographs of his old one, Mr. Theroux traced a narrative sequence of place: seeing the décor of the current apartment through the lens of the previous one, which he saw through the lens of CBGB lore.
"We assembled it by placing the captions in a list and forming a loose narrative of this place, Upland, as seen through this particular lens," he adds.
And last is the narrative of the place, about living under occupation".
Not only do their words bring individual images to life; but they also add up to an absorbing narrative of a place and an era.
