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Travel and Transformation (Paperback): Garth Lean, Russell Staiff

Travel and Transformation (Paperback)

Garth Lean, Russell Staiff

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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.

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Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: October 2016
First published: 2014
Authors: Garth Lean • Russell Staiff
Dimensions: 234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 978-1-138-27017-6
Categories: Books > Humanities > General
Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > General
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Leisure
Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Service industries > Tourism industry
Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Human geography > General
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LSN: 1-138-27017-2
Barcode: 9781138270176

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