Lean, Garth author, editor of compilation. Staiff, Russell author, editor of compilation. Waterton, Emma author, editor of compilation. text bibliography enk Farnham, Surrey, UK Burlington, VT 2014 monographic eng

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xiii, 236 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. 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. edited by Garth Lean, Russell Staiff and Emma Waterton. Includes bibliographical references and index. Travel Psychological aspects Tourism Psychological aspects Self-actualization (Psychology) G155.A1 .T6564 2014 910/.019 9781409467632 (hardback : alk. paper) 2014003374 DLC 140422 20230921135402.0 0000031516 eng