Browsing Vannini, Phillip by Title
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Body-Ekstasis: Socio-Semiotic Reflections on Surpassing the Dualism of Body-Image
(Ashgate, 2006)The body and experiences of embodiment have generated a rich and diverse sociological literature. This volume articulates and illustrates one major approach to the sociology of the body: symbolic interactionism, an ... -
The Changing Meanings of Authenticity: An Interpretive Biography of Professors’ Work Experiences
(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2006)This paper contributes to the symbolic interactionist literature on authenticity and the self by drawing from ethnographic research conducted with 46 faculty members at an American public research university. I offer an ... -
Constellations of (in-)convenience: disentangling the assemblages of Canada's west coast island mobilities
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2011)Drawing from fieldwork conducted to examine the roles played by ferry mobilities in the lives of residents of ferry-dependent islands and coastal communities of British Columbia, Canada, this paper focuses on three elements ... -
Constellations of ferry (im)mobility: islandness as the performance and politics of insulation and isolation
(Cultural Geographies, 2011-04)Drawing from three years of fieldwork — including over 250 journeys and about 400 interviews — conducted in ferry-dependent coastal and insular communities of British Columbia, this paper extends the concept of constellation ... -
Dead Poets' Society: Teaching, Publish-or-Perish, and Professors' Experiences of Authenticity
(University of California Press, 2006-05)Within social psychology, the concept of authenticity of the self has traditionally suffered from lack of definitional clarity. In this article, after conceptualizing authenticity as the phenomenological emotional experience ... -
Doing islandness: A non-representational approach to an island's sense of place
(cultural geographies, 2013)This paper presents both an empirical characterization and a theoretical treatment of an island as practice. Through video and ethnographic description we describe and interpret how one kind of islandness is done. Thus we ... -
Dramaturgy and post-structuralism
(Routledge, 2016)The relationship between dramaturgy and post-structuralism—the subject of this chapter—is an uneasy one. Now, Goffman’s work to be sure has vastly appealed to both postmodernists and post-structuralists for various ... -
Ethnographic film and video on hybrid television: Learning from the content, style, and distribution of popular ethnographic documentaries.
(Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 2015)Academic ethnographers have been utilizing film, and more recently video, for a variety of research purposes including the collection, analysis, and dissemination of data. But ethnographic film and video are not the exclusive ... -
The geography of disciplinary amnesia: Eleven scholars reflect on the international state of symbolic interactionism
(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2008)Both the history and the historiography of SI show that multiple “different definitions and boundaries” have been applied to the subject of study (Atkinson & Housley, 2003, p. vii). Yet, despite the commonly agreed-upon ... -
The GoPro gaze
(cultural geographies, 2017)During 2014–2015, we produced a short video documentary, titled The Art of Wild, which focused on the audiovisual practices of outdoor adventurers. This short written report reflects on an idea inspired by the video: the ... -
Home/Self/Ecology/Politics
(SAGE Publications, 2006)Building on Deleuzian philosophy, deep ecology, Carol Ronai's model of the layered text, andWendell Berry's post-9/11 writings, the author recollects his story of ourWest and reflects on the meanings of home for the self ... -
How to climb Mount Fuji (at your earliest convenience): A non-representational approach
(Routledge, 2016)I am no climber. Though I deeply respect and sometimes even admire the brave souls that put their lives on the line for the sake of mountaineering glory and obsessive goal-achievement, I have always enjoyed my mountains ... -
Intensities of mobility: Kinetic energy, commotion, and qualities of supercommuting
(Mobilities, 2016)This paper explores the intensities of long distance commuting journeys in order to understand how bodily sensibilities become attuned to the regular mobilities which they undertake. More people these days are travelling ... -
Interpreting George W. Bush: A socio-semiotic illustration and a performance extension
(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2004)In this article I analyze the official portrait of U.S. President George W. Bush to exemplify my previous theoretical elaboration of an interpretive analytics of the sign based on socio-semiotics and symbolic interactionism. ... -
Island Time: The Media Logic and Ritual of Ferry Commuting on Gabriola Island, BC
(Canadian Journal of Communication, 2007)Gabriola Island, British Columbia, this article analyzes the meanings associated with the movement of the MV Quinsam—the primary means of transportation onto and off the island—and with the ritual of ferry commuting. By ... -
Low and slow: Notes on the production and distribution of a mobile video ethnography
(Mobilities, 2017)The present article is a brief reflection accompanying Low and Slow: a 26 min ethnographic video documenting the occupation of commercial floatplane pilots, with a particular focus on their skills, technologies, sense of ... -
The Meanings of a Star: Interpreting Music Fans' Reviews
(University of California Press, 2004-02)This article both elaborates on and empirically supports Norman Denzin's thesis on the political aesthetics of interpretation. Through a reading of consumer reviews, I discuss both the image and the music of the contemporary ... -
Mentre tu dormivi: Traghetti e pendolari in British Columbia [While you were asleep: Ferries and commuters in British Columbia]
(Lo Squaderno: Explorations in Space and Society, 2014)Cultural critics have made of the commuter a modern popular culture stereotypical figure, characterized by habitual and automatic behavior. Tied to a security belt, hidden behind a newspaper, stuck inside a train coach, ... -
Non-representational ethnography: New ways of animating lifeworlds
(cultural geographies, 2015)Over the last decade and a half, socio-cultural geographies have witnessed a genuine explosion of interest in the ethnographic tradition. Such interest is due in part to the increasing acceptance of non-representational ... -
Nonrepresentational Theory and Symbolic Interactionism: Shared Perspectives and Missed Articulations
(University of California Press, 2004-08)Nigel Thrift’s Non-RepresentationalTheory is the latest—and more coherently and thoroughly formed—of his recent attempts to develop the ontological foundations and the practical agenda of an interdisciplinary theoretical ...
