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Arriving Home
Atm Machine
Author_Garth Lean
Author_Russell Staiff
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Colin Thubron
Cosmetic Surgery
Cosmetic Surgery Discourses
Cosmetic Surgery Patients
Cosmetic Surgery Tourism
Couch Surfing
cultural mobility
distance
Drawn Back
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False Killer Whales
forced migration narratives
Gps Tracking Device
Holy Man
identity transformation
Lao People's Democratic Republic
lifestyle
Lifestyle Travellers
liminality studies
Liminoid Space
long
Long Distance Walking
Luang Prabang
Medical Records Room
Person Place Relations
qualitative tourism research
Secular Pilgrimage
secular pilgrimage analysis
socio-cultural transformation through travel
south
South West Coast Path
Sympathetic Magic
tourism
transformative
travellers
Vice Versa
volunteer
Volunteer Tourism
walking
wkh
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781138270176
- Weight: 362g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 19 Oct 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Garth Lean, Russell Staiff and Emma Waterton are all at the University of Western Sydney, Australia.
