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Marked by the journey: Aesthetic reflexivity and existential transformation through travel tattoos

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Joelle Soulard *
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Xin Du
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Toni Liechty
DOI:10.1016/j.annals.2026.104240delete
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• Integrates aesthetic reflexivity into existential transformation research • Travel tattoos frame existential transformation through discourse and power. • Tattooing materializes existential relationships and life trajectories. • Embodied tattooing transforms existential distress and resilience. • Travel tattoos function as embodied practices of existential meaning-making.
Keywords:
Aesthetic reflexivity
Embodiment
Existential transformation
Tattoos
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