Authenticity and Consumption

Umbach, Maiken; Humphrey, Mathew

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“…Dating back to early Christian theology (Umbach & Humphrey, 2018), authenticity has since marched through the disciplines, drawing in/on the crisis of representation, Marxist challenges to the naturalness of human/non-human “nature,” and postmodern readings of simulation and hyper-reality (Baudrillard, 1981). In tourism, discussions of authenticity date from Boorstin’s (1961), MacCannell’s (1976), and Cohen’s (1988) influential works.…”

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Interrogating Racialized “Cultural Authenticity” Discourses Among Language-Learner Tourists in Australia

Stanley,

Wight

2023

Journal of Travel Research

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This study considers cultural adaptation through tourism, focusing on language-travelers: hybrid education-tourism consumers whose voices remain relatively silent in tourism studies. Qualitative, semi-structured interviews were undertaken with students, teachers, and managers in Australian English language schools to understand what language-travelers expect from their Australian experiences and the implications for language schools. The findings propose that sojourners’ experiences are framed by pre-visit imaginaries of object authenticity, wherein the “object” is both Australian culture and the wider Anglophone “West.” Such imaginaries are found to be validated by language schools, which face pressure to balance letting students glimpse the “backstage” and staging out-group imagined “authenticities,” such as by hiring fun, approachable, and above all White teachers. We identify opportunities for language centers to understand their role within tourism as cultural mediators and suggest ways forward in promoting and inculcating critical intercultural competence among language-traveler sojourners.

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“…Etymologically, authenticity derives from auto —the self—and hentes —the doer—, such that to be authentic is to lay claim to the real: an unadulterated selfhood (Umbach & Humphrey, 2018, pp. 1–2).…”

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Interrogating Racialized “Cultural Authenticity” Discourses Among Language-Learner Tourists in Australia

Stanley,

Wight

2023

Journal of Travel Research

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“…As arbiters, then, any such judgements are inherently value laden, given the fact that those making the judgements do so from their own ideological standpoint. As Umbach and Humphrey’s (2017: 3) argue, ‘authenticity is constantly rearticulated and recoded as it is employed for new ideological purposes’.…”

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Making sense of the rise and fall of Jeremy Corbyn: Towards an ambiguity-centred perspective on authentic leadership

Whittle

2020

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When Jeremy Corbyn was first elected as leader of the Labour party in 2015, he was framed in the media as a new type of authentic political leader. Corbyn seemed to represent everything that a typical politician was not: honest, straight talking, principled and someone who always stayed true to his beliefs. In the aftermath of the December 2019 general election and the worst defeat for the Labour party since 1935, this article takes stock of how authenticity featured in the media discourse during Corbyn’s tenure as a party leader. Three competing discourses are identified. The first discourse categorised Corbyn as authentic and framed his authenticity as a leadership strength. The second discourse framed Corbyn as inauthentic. The third discourse framed Corbyn’s authenticity as a leadership problem. The study reveals a deeply ambivalent and contradictory set of discourses of authenticity that circulated in the media and highlights the ideological function performed by these competing discourses, which juxtapose ideas and ideals of personal authenticity against ideas and ideals about what constitutes effective political leadership. The article concludes by advancing an ambiguity-centred approach (Alvesson M and Spicer A (eds) (2010) Metaphors We Lead By: Understanding Leadership in the Real World. London: Routledge) to understanding authentic leadership, where authenticity is understood as a set of ambiguous and competing discursive attributions made within a contested social and political context.

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Authenticity and Consumption

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Interrogating Racialized “Cultural Authenticity” Discourses Among Language-Learner Tourists in Australia

Interrogating Racialized “Cultural Authenticity” Discourses Among Language-Learner Tourists in Australia

Making sense of the rise and fall of Jeremy Corbyn: Towards an ambiguity-centred perspective on authentic leadership

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