Abstract
Firmly enmeshed in the capitalist mode of production, today's highly skilled professional knowledge workers struggle with an imperative to realize themselves through their work. This article examines how this imperative for self-realization is also characteristic of contemporary practices of vacation travel, and in doing so points to forms of oppression inherent in capitalism today in relation to a practice that is customarily celebrated as a little freedom from the responsibilities of work. The arguments presented are based on a Foucauldian genealogy of vacation travel and the subject who pursues it, starting with the period of industrialization and finishing with an outline of contemporary discourses. The aim is to contribute to a discussion of contemporary critiques of capitalism.
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