Materialities of tourism in the twenty-first century: A very brief introduction

Muecke, Stephen; Wergin, Carsten

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“…‘Material things have a particular value in the leisure and tourism markets as they are absolutely necessary for human agency and performativity in them’ (Muecke and Wergin, 2014: 228). Souvenirs can symbolise and materialise the tourist experience, they have the ability to ‘absorb’ tourists’ narratives and express individual travel experience to social others (Hume, 2013) induce conversations about travel experience in a social setting.…”

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Conspicuous souvenirs: Analysing touristic self-presentation through souvenir display

Kuhn

2020

Tourist Studies

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Holiday travel offers the opportunity for self-definition and enhancement of social prestige. Due to the growing importance of self-expressive values within the ongoing course of individualisation, tourists increasingly make use of their travel experience to self-present in a positive way. Yet, tourism studies have not investigated what tourists actually want to communicate about themselves when representing their travel experience through the display of souvenirs. Using semi-structured qualitative interviews, this study examines touristic self-expression and exposes the self-concepts attached to and communicated through the display of souvenirs as material symbols of travel experience. Results show that tourists often have a clear intention to express positive self-messages when showing their souvenirs to others. Souvenirs are used to represent personal character traits, social affiliation to in-groups and neo-tribes, and to demonstrate individual travel history. This article adds to the discussion of individual ascription of meaning to the tourist experience and souvenirs, and gives an insight to the function of souvenirs for self-expression and social exchange.

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Conspicuous souvenirs: Analysing touristic self-presentation through souvenir display

Kuhn

2020

Tourist Studies

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“…ANT thus alleges that materialities have a kind of agency. Both ANT and the 'material turn' (Muecke & Wergin 2014) have roots in Latour's (2005) sociology of associations, wherein the 'social' is 'glued together' by many types of 'connectors', both human and non-human, and is inseparable from the material. Proponents of ANT and materiality insist on 'ontological symmetry' between human and material actors (Jóhannesson 2005; van der Duim, Ren & Jóhannesson 2017), but since they admit that objects do not 'act' in the same sense as humans, the sense in which objects are ascribed 'agency' in ANT remains obscure.…”

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New directions in the sociology of tourism

Cohen

2017

Current Issues in Tourism

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This review article starts with an examination of the shifting nature of tourism discourse from the 1960s up to the present, and then focuses on seven topics that we consider to be on the forefront of current developments in the sociological study of tourism: emotions, sensory experiences, materialities, gender, ethics, authentication and the philosophical groundings of tourism theories. We find that in recent years the sociology of tourism was marked by three general trends: the growing application of specific novel theories from other fields to tourism, the examination of new facets of touristic phenomena, and an intensified inquiry into the status of tourism as an intellectual or cultural project. We conclude that while the application of a range of novel theoretical perspectives and facets largely reflects the postmodern move away from binary thinking and concepts, the sociology of tourism still makes little contribution back to the discipline of sociology, and will need to address important emergent topics such as deglobalization and current nationalistic movements toward isolationism, to do so.

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“…La realidad turística se convierte entonces en un campo de trabajo central y paradigmático en el que, junto a las miradas más convencionales, confluyen y se interpenetran enfoques como los estudios de género (Aitchison, 2005;Cole, 2018;Figueroa-Domecq et al, 2015), la ecología (Becken y Hay, 2007;Scott, 2008), la investigación de las emociones (Picard y Robinson, 2012), la teoría del actor-red y el estudio de los vínculos que los turistas establecen con los objetos materiales (Beard et al, 2016;Muecke y Wergin, 2014), el paradigma de la movilidad (Sheller y Urry, 2006;Urry, 2007), los análisis sobre la digitalización de la vida social (Huete, 2019;Wang et al, 2002Wang et al, , 2012, o la filosofía y la ética del turismo (Fennell, 2006;Tribe, 2009).…”

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Ética y política en la investigación del turismo

Mantecón¹

2020

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El cuestionamiento de las lógicas positivistas, dominantes en la investigación del turismo, favoreció en el umbral del siglo XXI el desarrollo del llamado giro crítico de los estudios turísticos y el intento de construcción de un nuevo paradigma con rasgos distintivos: la Academia de Esperanza. Se revisa este proceso y se critican las bases teóricas y los supuestos ético-políticos en los que se sostiene. Finalmente, se discute el tipo de relación que debe establecer el análisis crítico del turismo con la reflexión moral sobre sus efectos.

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Materialities of tourism in the twenty-first century: A very brief introduction

Abstract: In tourism people interact routinely with a wide range of objects and material environments; they bring their gendered, racialized and aged bodies into play when performing leisure and tourism.

Cited by 6 publications

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Conspicuous souvenirs: Analysing touristic self-presentation through souvenir display

Conspicuous souvenirs: Analysing touristic self-presentation through souvenir display

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Ética y política en la investigación del turismo

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