Tourism and Leisure Mobilities: Politics, work, and play (Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility)

By: Kevin Hannam and Jillian Rickly and Mary Mostafanezhad

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Synopsis: This book reframes tourism, as well as leisure, within mobilities studies to challenge the limitations that dichotomous understandings of home/away, work/leisure, and host/guest bring. A mobilities approach to tourism and leisure encourages us to think beyond the mobilities of tourists to ways in which tourism and leisure experiences bring other mobilities into sync, or disorder, and as a result re-conceptualizes social theory. The proposed anthology stretches across academic disciplines and fields of study to illustrate the advantages of multi-disciplinary conversation and, in so doing, it challenges how we approach studies of movement-based phenomena and the concept of scale. Part One examines the ways in which mobility informs and is informed by leisure, from everyday practices to leisure-inspired mobile lifestyles. Part Two investigates individuals and communities that become entrepreneurial in the face of changing tourism contexts and reflects on the performance of work through multiple mobilities. Part Three turns to issues of development, with attention to the cultural politics that frame development encounters in the context of tourism. The varied ways that people move into and out of development projects is mediated by geopolitical discourses hat can both challenge and perpetuate geographic imaginations of tourism destinations.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 258 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781317415824
Related ISBNs:: 9781315686660, 9781138921054, 9781138921054, 9781315686660, 9780367668211, 9781138921054
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 02/10/20
Copyrighted By:: N/A
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Travel, Business and Finance, Social Studies, Sociology
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Jillian Rickly
Edited by:: Kevin Hannam
Edited by:: Mary Mostafanezhad