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Travel and transformation / edited by Garth Lean, Russell Staiff and Emma Waterton.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Current developments in the geographies of leisure and tourismPublisher: Farnham, Surrey, UK ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2014Description: xiii, 236 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781409467632 (hardback : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 910/.019 23
LOC classification:
  • G155.A1 .T6564 2014
Contents:
Exploring travel and transformation / Garth Lean, Russell Staiff and Emma Waterton -- Lifestyle travel, tropophilia and identity transformation / Jon Anderson and Kathyrn Erskine -- Travel as critique and transgression in Michel Foucault and Colin Thubron / Drew Ninnis -- Doing good : transforming the self through transforming the world / Fiona Allon and Maria Koleth -- Saddos and Saddhus : transcendence as breakdown in Geoff Dyer's Jeff in Venice/Death in Varanasi / Bianca Leggett -- "Home is lovelier than the way home" : travels and transformations in Mahmoud Darwish's poetry / Rehnuma Sazzad -- The nomad, the refugee, the developer, and the migrant : four stories of inner-city travellers in Johannesburg, South Africa / Shannon Walsh -- Temporality, technologies and techniques of the self : long-distance walking as secular pilgrimage / Leila Dawney -- Memories of forced transformation through travel in 1948 / Lynda Mannik -- Young backpackers and the rite of passage of travel : examining the transformative effects of liminality / Amie Matthews -- Notes on strategies for leaving and arriving home / Sarah Rodigari -- Facebook and facelifts : communities of cosmetic surgery tourists / Meredith Jones, David Bell, Ruth Holliday, Elspeth Probyn and Jacqueline Sanchez Taylor -- Material transformations : place, process and the capacity of tourist souvenirs in the home / Kimberley Peters -- Lasting impressions / Garth Lean, Russell Staiff and Emma Waterton.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Exploring travel and transformation / Garth Lean, Russell Staiff and Emma Waterton -- Lifestyle travel, tropophilia and identity transformation / Jon Anderson and Kathyrn Erskine -- Travel as critique and transgression in Michel Foucault and Colin Thubron / Drew Ninnis -- Doing good : transforming the self through transforming the world / Fiona Allon and Maria Koleth -- Saddos and Saddhus : transcendence as breakdown in Geoff Dyer's Jeff in Venice/Death in Varanasi / Bianca Leggett -- "Home is lovelier than the way home" : travels and transformations in Mahmoud Darwish's poetry / Rehnuma Sazzad -- The nomad, the refugee, the developer, and the migrant : four stories of inner-city travellers in Johannesburg, South Africa / Shannon Walsh -- Temporality, technologies and techniques of the self : long-distance walking as secular pilgrimage / Leila Dawney -- Memories of forced transformation through travel in 1948 / Lynda Mannik -- Young backpackers and the rite of passage of travel : examining the transformative effects of liminality / Amie Matthews -- Notes on strategies for leaving and arriving home / Sarah Rodigari -- Facebook and facelifts : communities of cosmetic surgery tourists / Meredith Jones, David Bell, Ruth Holliday, Elspeth Probyn and Jacqueline Sanchez Taylor -- Material transformations : place, process and the capacity of tourist souvenirs in the home / Kimberley Peters -- Lasting impressions / Garth Lean, Russell Staiff and Emma Waterton.

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