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Why do people travel? Travel has always been central to humanity. While mass tourism only origi-nated in the nineteenth century, seasonal migration, pilgrimage and other forms of travel existed in most societies long before that period.... more
Drawing on a thematically and geographically diverse set of theoretical and ethnographic texts, this seminar aims at discussing the analytical purchase of (im)mobility as an overarching conceptual framework to study and understand the... more
Combining reflections on my personal experiences regarding tourism with an analytical review of key concepts, this essay addresses the question whether and how tourism contributes to building a global ‘culture of peace’. Setting the... more
Despite mass investments in advanced border controls, refugees and migrants keep arriving along southern European shores under increasingly desperate circumstances. Outside Italy, hardly a week has passed in summer 2014 without news of... more
As a result of European externalization of the politics of migration, Southern and Eastern Mediterranean countries like Morocco are increasingly co-opted to deter asylum-seekers and other migrants. These latter, criminalized and labelled... more
Este libro sobre palabras clave para el estudio de la movilidad en América Latina se inscribe en una larga tradición dentro de las ciencias sociales y las humanidades.
Si bien la antropología y el turismo no siempre han tenido una relación feliz, la antropología del turismo ha alcanzado la mayoría de edad, y esto en diferentes tradiciones académicas. Desde hace medio siglo, este subcampo de la... more
In this paper, I examine how home is imagined and socially constructed in the life of " location-independent families " (LIF). Location-independence is a form of lifestyle mobility based on the possibility of running an online business... more
In community-centered cultural tourism, the encounter with the ‘Other’ is central and the role of professional intermediaries in facilitating this experience crucial. Tour guides are often the only ‘locals’ with whom tourists spend a... more
Mobility studies emerged from a postmodern moment in which global ‘flows’ of capital, people and objects were increasingly noted and celebrated. Within this new scholarship, categories of migrancy are all seen through the same analytical... more
Introduction to a special journal issue on public interest anthropology applied to cultural heritage and tourism. All papers in this special issue on public interest anthropology applied to cultural heritage and tourism were originally... more
In tourism studies globalization and localization are often conceived of as a binary opposition. The ethnography of an Indonesian group of tour guides presented here illustrates how the global and the local are intimately intertwined... more
In this short article, I offer a personal reflection on my own mobilities and how these influenced my academic interest in human movement and brought me in contact with mobility studies and Transfers. On the special occasion of the... more
Turning the attention to the temporal as well as the more familiar spatial dimensions of mobility, this volume focuses on the momentum for and temporal composition of mobility, the rate at which people enact or deploy their movements as... more
In this article, I discuss immobility as both an analytical concept and a lived experience. I review contemporary scholarly understandings of immobility and disentangle the unavoidable relational dynamics with its positive linguistic... more
This chapter is organized into four sections that explore different facets of glocalization: (1) as a cultural approach, (2) as a tool to mitigate crises in tourism experiences, (3) as a business approach to develop successful tourism... more
Historically, recreational running grew partially with the aim of controlling the side effects of “sedentary” lifestyles and physical inactivity, i.e., obesity, heart diseases and other health risks. This trend developed in the 19th... more
It is hard to imagine tourism without the creative use of seductive as well as restrictive imaginaries about peoples and places. This article presents a conceptual framework for the study of tourism imaginaries and their diffusion. Where... more
以中国的度假游客为研究对象,分析传统精英文化对当代精英人士旅游行为、思想观念与态度的影响,以及中国季节性旅游行为呈现出来的新的时代特征和文化内涵。探讨在社会历史语境下,近年的政治变革如何重 塑度假旅游目的地,以及旅游实践在中国文化中的重要性。基于人类学视角对云南省丽江市的度假游客进行定性 研究,民族志调查结果显示出中国度假旅游模式与西方学术文献资料中记载的其他地区具有惊人的相似性及预期 差异性。
... a taste of the diversity of contexts in which anthropologists around the globe are studying tourism (and beyond)
Taken together, the various articles that make up this special issue offer a variety of analyses in different social, cultural, material, political, economic, and historical settings from which to understand how discrimination, and... more
Mobility studies emerged from a postmodern moment in which global ‘flows’ of capital, people and objects were increasingly noted and celebrated. Within this new scholarship, categories of migrancy are all seen through the same analytical... more
Grounded in scholarly analysis 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... more
Success stories in tourism usually come from the industry and are eagerly used as marketing tools to promote destinations. This chapter reflects on what ‘successful tourism’ is, and why scholars are more cautious than practitioners are in... more
El presente artículo examina las teorías del turismo internacional en países en desarrollo, inspiradas en la perspectiva antropológica. Esto se hace analizando las interrelaciones entre tres conceptos teóricos centrales: la cultura, el... more
Figures of mobility, from nomads to flâneurs and tourists, have been used to describe both self and other in the social sciences and humanities for a long time. They act as a conceptual shorthand in contemporary scholarly debates,... more