Travel writing has, for centuries, comprised an essential historical record and wide-ranging literary form, reflecting the rich diversity of travel as a social and cultural practice, metaphorical process, and driver of globalization.

Subjects: Literary Studies Mobility Studies Cultural Studies (General) Travel and Tourism

Revisiting Austria draws on a rich selection of films, marketing materials, literature, and first-person accounts to explore the ways in which tourism has shaped both international and domestic perceptions of Austrian identity even as it has failed to confront the nation’s often violent and troubled history.

Subjects: Travel and Tourism History: 20th Century to Present Media Studies

As the site of literary pilgrimage since the eighteenth century, the home of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the topic of hundreds of imaginary portrayals, Stratford is ripe for analysis, both in terms of its factual existence and its fictional afterlife.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Travel and Tourism Literary Studies

Written for study abroad practitioners, this book approaches key study abroad concepts – such as “culture”, “native speaker”, and “immersion” – from a number of theoretical perspectives, and considers study abroad not as an encounter with cultural others, but as an occasion to analyze constructions of “differences” in daily life.

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Educational Studies Mobility Studies

Grounded in an eclectic process of data collection, analysis of secondary sources and personal reflection, and drawing on a multi-sited and multi-method research design, Momentous Mobilities disentangles the meanings attached to temporary travels and stays abroad and offers empirical evidence as well as novel theoretical arguments to develop an anthropology of mobility.

Subjects: Mobility Studies Anthropology (General) Travel and Tourism

There is a World Heritage Craze in China. China claims to have the longest continuous civilization in the world and is seeking the recognition from UNESCO. With a sociological lens, this book offers comprehensive insights into World Heritage, as well as China’s deep social, cultural, and political structures.

Subjects: Heritage Studies Archaeology Sociology Travel and Tourism

Expeditions played a major role in the development of anthropology, but their significance has been eclipsed by the discipline’s valorization of the lone observer. This rich assessment of cross-cultural research and team-based travel is part of a new historical turn that regards expeditions as cultural formations, and provides new and compelling perspectives on the histories of anthropology and empire.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) History (General) Travel and Tourism

What draws people to study abroad or volunteer in far-off communities? This volume explores what draws students to study or volunteer abroad. In doing so, the book sheds light on how affect is managed by educators and mobilized by students and volunteers themselves, and how these structures of feeling related to broader social and economic forces.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Travel and Tourism Educational Studies

Scholars from various disciplines have used key concepts to grasp mobilities, but as of yet, a working vocabulary of these has yet to be fully developed. This edited volume presents contributions that critically analyze mobility-related keywords: capital, cosmopolitanism, freedom, gender, immobility, infrastructure, motility, and regime.

Subjects: Mobility Studies Anthropology (General) Travel and Tourism

Based on a detailed ethnography, this book explores tourism in Cuba, drawing attention to challenges that tourists and local people face in establishing meaningful connections with each other. Comparing a wide array of these experiences, the author uses tourism to offer a new understanding of how relationships across difference and inequality are imagined and understood.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Travel and Tourism

As a nexus of social practices through which individuals and groups establish places and peoples as credible objects of tourism, “tourism imaginaries” have yet to be fully explored. Presenting innovative conceptual approaches, this volume advances ethnographic research methods and critical scholarship regarding tourism and the imaginaries that drive it.

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Anthropology (General)

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Sociology

Subjects: Performance Studies Travel and Tourism Anthropology (General)

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General) Memory Studies

“...an excellent and engaging commentary on the tourism industry, postcolonial societies and environmental governance. Its strength lies in the nuance and intricacy of its portrayals of social life and the way that it opens up a difficult yet much needed theoretical space in which to contemplate issues such as how we should investigate tourist subjectivity, how collective imaginaries are formed and sustained, and how dynamics of affect and desire constitute tourism as a social practice. Its readability and the vividness of characterisations in Picard’s accounts of his ethnographic observations will make the book an accessible and appealing text to students of tourism studies and social anthropology, and to these fields it makes a notable contribution.”  ·  Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Anthropology (General)

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Anthropology (General)

Subjects: Performance Studies Travel and Tourism Anthropology (General)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Jewish Studies Memory Studies Travel and Tourism

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Travel and Tourism Anthropology (General)

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Anthropology (General)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Travel and Tourism

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Mobility Studies Refugee and Migration Studies

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Travel and Tourism Anthropology (General) Literary Studies

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Anthropology (General)

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Anthropology of Religion Anthropology (General)

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Colonial History Travel and Tourism

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Development Studies Anthropology (General)

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Theory and Methodology

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Gender Studies and Sexuality

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Development Studies Anthropology (General)

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Anthropology (General)