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Book SynopsisBringing affect and emotion to the forefront of tourism studies, this book presents a new generation of scholars who consolidate emerging affective approaches and establish a route for scholarship that examines the roles of emotion and affect in tourism.
Attuning to affect and emotion, this book steers the affective turn to encompass touring bodies and tourism places. Engaging the concept of affect as a constitutive element of social life often leaves academics grasping for terminology to describe something that is, by its very nature, beyond words. For this reason, as evident in the four interconnected sections of this volume, studying affect poses a significant and fruitful challenge to the status-quo of social scientific method and analysis. From African-American emotional labour while travelling, to visiting Banksy''s Dismaland park, to affective heritagescapes, self-love, and travelling mittens, and across socio-spatial theories of emotions, decolonial feminist theory, an
Table of Contents
Introduction: Attuning to affect and emotion in tourism studies Part 1: Emotion, Work and Power 1. Jim Crow journey stories: African American driving as emotional labor 2. Decolonising the ‘autonomy of affect’ in volunteer tourism encounters 3. Mexican women’s emotions to resist gender stereotypes in rural tourism work Part 2: Feeling Places 4. Presence in affective heritagescapes: connecting theory to practice 5. Beyond ‘a trip to the seaside’: exploring emotions and family tourism experiences 6. Dystopian dark tourism: affective experiences in Dismaland 7. Summers of war. Affective volunteer tourism to former war sites in Europe 8. Traveler sensoryscape experiences and the formation of destination identity Part 3: Symbolic Sentiments 9. Feeling opulent: adding an affective dimension to symbolic consumption of themes 10. Tourists’ savoring of positive emotions and place attachment formation: a conceptual paper 11. Self-love emotion as a novel type of love for tourism destinations Part 4: Affective Epistemologies 12. The ‘MeBox’ method and the emotional effects of chronic illness on travel 13. Attuning to the affective in literary tourism: Emotional states in Aberystwyth, Mon Amour. 14. Affective entanglements with travelling mittens Conclusion Affective Railway Journeys in an Age of Extremes
