Emotion in Motion: Tourism, Affect and Transformation

. Ed(s): Robinson, Professor Mike; Picard, Dr. David

ISBN 10: 1409421333 / ISBN 13: 9781409421337

Published by Routledge, 2012

About this Item

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? This book deals 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. Editor(s): Robinson, Professor Mike; Picard, Dr. David. Series Editor(s): Ioannides, Professor Dimitri. Series: New Directions in Tourism Analysis. Num Pages: 308 pages, Includes 18 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; KNSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 242 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 712. . 2012. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Emotion in Motion: Tourism, Affect and Transformation
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1409421333
• ISBN 13: 9781409421337
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

David Picard, is Senior Research Fellow, CRIA-New University of Lisbon, Portugal and Mike Robinson is Professor, Chair of Cultural Heritage, University of Birmingham, UK