Travel and transformation /
edited by Garth Lean, Russell Staiff and Emma Waterton.
- Farnham, Surrey, UK : Burlington, VT, 2014.
- xiii, 236 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Current developments in the geographies of leisure and tourism .
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.