Travel and Transformation

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4094-6763-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 549 g

Travel and tourism have a long association with the notion of transformation, both in terms of self and social collectives. What is surprising, however, is that this association has, on the whole, remained relatively underexplored and unchallenged, with little in the way of a corpus of academic literature surrounding these themes. Instead, much of the literature to date has focused upon describing and categorising tourism and travel experiences from a supply-side perspective, with travellers themselves defined in terms of their motivations and interests. While the tourism field can lay claim to several significant milestone contributions, there have been few recent attempts at a rigorous re-theorization of the issues arising from the travel/transformation nexus. The opportunity to explore the socio-cultural dimensions of transformation through travel has thus far been missed. Bringing together geographers, sociologists, cultural researchers, philosophers, anthropologists, visual researchers, literary scholars and heritage researchers, this volume explores what it means to transform through travel in a modern, mobile world. In doing so, it draws upon a wide variety of traveller perspectives - including tourists, backpackers, lifestyle travellers, migrants, refugees, nomads, walkers, writers, poets, virtual travellers and cosmetic surgery patients - to unpack a cultural phenomenon that has captured the imagination since the very first works of Western literature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lean, Garth

Staiff, Russell

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Innen-, Bildungs- und Bevölkerungspolitik
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Dienstleistungssektor & Branchen Tourismuswirtschaft, Gastgewerbe

Inhaltsverzeichnis

chapterp1 Prelude Flensed, Janice Baker; Chapter 1 Exploring Travel and Transformation, Garth Lean, Russell Staiff, Emma Waterton; Part 1 Transformation Speculations; Chapter 2 Lifestyle Travel, Tropophila and Identity Transformation, Jon Anderson, Kathryn Erskine; Chapter 3 Travel as Critique and Transgression in Michel Foucault and Colin Thubron, Drew Ninnis; Chapter 4 Doing Good: Transforming the Self by Transforming the World, Fiona Allon, Maria Koleth; Part 2 Transformation, Representation, Story; Chapter 5 Saddos and Saddhus: Transcendence as Breakdown in Geoff Dyer’s, Bianca Leggett; Chapter 6 ‘Home is Lovelier than the Way Home’: Travels and Transformations in Mahmoud Darwish’s Poetry, Rehnuma Sazzad; Chapter 7 The Nomad, the Refugee, the Developer and the Migrant: Four Stories of Inner-City Travellers in Johannesburg, South Africa, Shannon Walsh; Part 3 Transformation in Motion; Chapter 8 Temporality, Technologies and Techniques of the Self: Long-Distance Walking as Secular Pilgrimage, Leila Dawney; Chapter 9 Memories of Forced Transformation through Travel in 1948, Lynda Mannik; Chapter 10 Young Backpackers and the Rite of Passage of Travel: Examining the Transformative Effects of Liminality, Amie Matthews; Chapter 11 Notes on Strategies for Leaving and Arriving Home, Sarah Rodigari; Part 4 Marking Transformation; Chapter 12 Facebook and Facelifts: Communities of Cosmetic Surgery Tourists, Meredith Jones, David Bell, Ruth Holliday, Elspeth Probyn, Jacqueline Sanchez Taylor; Chapter 13 Material Transformations: Place, Process and the Capacity of Tourist Souvenirs in the Home, Kimberley Peters; Part 5 Conclusions; Chapter 14 Lasting Impressions, Garth Lean, Russell Staiff, Emma Waterton;

Über Autor(innen)

Garth Lean, Russell Staiff and Emma Waterton are all at the University of Western Sydney, Australia.