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Emotion in Motion - Tourism, Affect and Transformation (Paperback)
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Emotion in Motion - Tourism, Affect and Transformation (Paperback)
Series: New Directions in Tourism Analysis
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What happens when tourists scream with fear, shout with anger and
frustration, weep with joy and delight, or even faint in the face
of revealed beauty? How can certain sites affect some tourists so
deeply that they require hospitalisation and psychiatric treatment?
What are the inner contours of tourist experience and how does it
relate to specific emotional cultures? What are the consequences of
the emotional cultures of tourists upon destinations? How are
differences in emotional culture mobilized and played out in the
transnational contact zones of international tourism? While many
books have engaged with the structural frames of tourist practice
and experience, this is the first to deal with the emotional
dimensions of tourism, travel and contact and the ways in which
they can transform tourists, destinations and travel cultures
through emotional engagements. The book brings together an
international array of scholars from anthropology, psychiatry,
history, cultural geography and critical tourism studies to explore
how the movement to, and through, the realms of exotic people, wild
natures, subliminal art, spirit worlds, metropolitan cities and
sexualised 'others' variably provoke emotions, peak experiences,
travel syndromes and inner dialogues. The authors show how tourism
challenges us to engage with concepts of self, other, time, nature,
sex, the body and death. Through a set of ethnographic and historic
cases, they demonstrate that such engagements usually have little
to do with the actual destination but rather, are deeply anchored
in personal memories, repressed fears and desires, and the
collective imaginaries of our societies.
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