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The imagination has long been associated with travel and tourism;
from the seventeenth century when the showman and his peepshow box
would take the village crowd to places, cities and lands through
the power of stories, to today when we rely on a different range of
boxes to whisk us away on our imaginative travels: the television,
the cinema and the computer. Even simply the notion of travel, it
would seem, gives us license to daydream. The imagination thus
becomes a key concept that blurs the boundaries between our
everyday lives and the idea of travel. Yet, despite what appears to
be a close and comfortable link, there is an absence of scholarly
material looking at travel and the imagination. Bringing together
geographers, sociologists, cultural researchers, philosophers,
anthropologists, visual researchers, archaeologists, heritage
researchers, literary scholars and creative writers, this edited
collection explores the socio-cultural phenomenon of imagination
and travel. The volume reflects upon imagination in the context of
many forms of physical and non-physical travel, inviting scholars
to explore this fascinating, yet complex, area of inquiry in all of
its wonderful colour, slipperiness, mystery and intrigue. The book
intends to provide a catalyst for thinking, discussion, research
and writing, with the vision of generating a cannon of scholarship
on travel and the imagination that is currently absent from the
literature.
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.
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.
The imagination has long been associated with travel and tourism;
from the seventeenth century when the showman and his peepshow box
would take the village crowd to places, cities and lands through
the power of stories, to today when we rely on a different range of
boxes to whisk us away on our imaginative travels: the television,
the cinema and the computer. Even simply the notion of travel, it
would seem, gives us license to daydream. The imagination thus
becomes a key concept that blurs the boundaries between our
everyday lives and the idea of travel. Yet, despite what appears to
be a close and comfortable link, there is an absence of scholarly
material looking at travel and the imagination. Bringing together
geographers, sociologists, cultural researchers, philosophers,
anthropologists, visual researchers, archaeologists, heritage
researchers, literary scholars and creative writers, this edited
collection explores the socio-cultural phenomenon of imagination
and travel. The volume reflects upon imagination in the context of
many forms of physical and non-physical travel, inviting scholars
to explore this fascinating, yet complex, area of inquiry in all of
its wonderful colour, slipperiness, mystery and intrigue. The book
intends to provide a catalyst for thinking, discussion, research
and writing, with the vision of generating a cannon of scholarship
on travel and the imagination that is currently absent from the
literature.
Travel and Representation is a timely volume of essays that
explores and re-examines the various convergences between
literature, art, photography, television, cinema and travel. The
essays do so in a way that appreciates the entanglement of
representations and travel at a juncture in theoretical work that
recognizes the limits of representation, things that lie outside of
representation and the continuing power of representation. The
emphasis is on the myriad ways travelers/scholars employ
representation in their writing/analyses as they re-think the
intersections between travelers, fields of representation,
imagination, emotions and corporeal experiences in the past, the
present and the future.
This book presents the re-theorisation of travel and
transformation. It explores the factors that influence the
behaviours of a traveller, how these become entwined in experiences
and how travel experiences continue on a traveller's return. It
uses the notion of transformation to redevelop the temporal and
spatial boundaries of physical travel, develop a model for
unpacking transformation and to look at new methods in the
exploration of travel research.
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