De l’utopie à l’autonomadie, un autre voyage est possible !

Can holidays last or even go on forever? Utopia is one of the ways to think this option, to operate this step aside, against the current of the surrounding and dominant order. From Segalen to Cendrars, the test of travel and exoticism without voyeurism carries in it the proofs of the trip or the act...

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Main Author: Franck Michel
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Language:English
Published: Université des Antilles 2017-11-01
Series:Études Caribéennes
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/etudescaribeennes/11151
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description Can holidays last or even go on forever? Utopia is one of the ways to think this option, to operate this step aside, against the current of the surrounding and dominant order. From Segalen to Cendrars, the test of travel and exoticism without voyeurism carries in it the proofs of the trip or the act of slinging. Autonomy and nomadism are the appropriate terms that open and sometimes force the doors of consensus, immobilism and generalized fear. These two terms - at the origin of which I named “autonomadie” (in French, quite untranslatable) - refer to independence of mind, freedom of expression and the free flow of ideas, people, long before that of goods. If the planet is the foundation of all travel, culture is its driving force. This article tries to mark new paths of travel, off the beaten track, nourished by the imagination of elsewhere, and necessarily alternative. Yesterday as today, it is always a matter of rising to better stand up, and therefore not to fall and die. Especially in this good way of a beautiful promising life that leads to oneself as to the others. Humanity is nothing without freedom of movement. It is nothing without movement and freedom. Humans are not automated subjects but autonomous nomads. And active travelers rather than passive tourists. This is what this contribution intends not to affirm but to explore.
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De l’utopie à l’autonomadie, un autre voyage est possible !
Études Caribéennes
tourism
travel
utopia
nomadism
autonomy
title De l’utopie à l’autonomadie, un autre voyage est possible !
title_full De l’utopie à l’autonomadie, un autre voyage est possible !
title_fullStr De l’utopie à l’autonomadie, un autre voyage est possible !
title_full_unstemmed De l’utopie à l’autonomadie, un autre voyage est possible !
title_short De l’utopie à l’autonomadie, un autre voyage est possible !
title_sort de l utopie a l autonomadie un autre voyage est possible
topic tourism
travel
utopia
nomadism
autonomy
url https://journals.openedition.org/etudescaribeennes/11151
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