The holiday meal: eating out alone and mobile emotional geographies

Heimtun, Bente

doi:10.1080/02614360903261495

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“…However, in doing so the women are potentially compromising their own enjoyment of the holiday experience. One reason women apply this strategy is that they believe travelling as part of a group, instead of solo, may protect them from experiencing exclusion and isolation in holiday spaces that are often socially and culturally constructed for couples and families (Heimtun, 2010;Jordan, 2008). In the Norwegian study, many of the women felt that adopting the social identity of 'the friend' and compromising was preferable to the alternative of travelling alone.…”

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‘Wish YOU Weren’t Here!’: Interpersonal Conflicts and the Touristic Experiences of Norwegian and British Women Travelling with Friends

Heimtun¹,

Jordan

2011

Tourist Studies

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Tourism is often portrayed by the tourism industry, tourists themselves and tourism scholars as a liminoid site of escape, happiness and freedom from constraint. For many, however, holidays do not live up to this expectation. This paper challenges the dominant tourism discourse of holidays as sites of unproblematic pleasure in examining contestation, conflicts and negotiations between women and their travelling companions. Drawing on conceptualizations of in-group interpersonal conflicts and theorization of the mobile social identities of women travellers, we explore the impact of holiday conflicts on women’s holiday experiences and friendships. The findings of this qualitative study of female tourists from Norway and the UK suggest that women adopt various strategies to deal with open and hidden conflicts that may threaten their friendships and holiday experiences. Such strategies include avoidance of conflict through compromise, negotiation of appropriate holiday behaviours prior to travel, or ultimately choosing to travel solo.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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‘Wish YOU Weren’t Here!’: Interpersonal Conflicts and the Touristic Experiences of Norwegian and British Women Travelling with Friends

Heimtun¹,

Jordan

2011

Tourist Studies

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“…Going on holiday is endorsed as a shared practice, often with family, as well as friends or even complete strangers; so much so that solo holidaying (as opposed to, say, backpacking) remains an often marginalised and suspicious activity (see Heimtun 2010;Jayne et al 2012;McIlvenny 2013). The relational experiences of family holiday, we suggest, constitute a significant aspect of everyday family life: how holidays are thought about, planned for and enacted as a way of reconfirming and reflecting on everyday family practices.…”

Section: Family Practices and Personal Lifementioning

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Family Practices, Holiday and the Everyday

Hall

Holdsworth

2014

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Holidays are central to the rhythm of everyday family practices and consumption, and are often depicted, within both academic literature and consumer marketing, as a defining moment in contemporary family life. To date, academic accounts of the experiences of travel and tourism have been mostly developed outside of the realm of everyday family practices and intimate relations. In this paper, therefore, we advance an interpretation of family holidays as a constituent of everyday family practices. To do this, we bring together three distinct yet interrelated conceptual frameworks: those of family practices, holiday and the everyday. Presenting and analysing data collected from ethnographic research with six families and exploring the themes of anticipation and utopian family practices, we identify how the notion of family holidays can be used a conduit for realising not only relationality between family members but also as a means of easing out the tensions and aspirations of everyday family life, a way to perfect the everyday and also to make it more palatable.

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“…Thus because emotion contributes to the creation and constitution of spaces (Pritchard et al, 2002) and shapes 'not only what the world is, but also how it comes to be this way' (Wright, 2012(Wright, , 1115, it can only be fully understood within its spatial and social context (Davidson and Milligan, 2004). Emotion is embodied, spatially and temporally constituted, shapes and is shaped by relationships between people and between people and places and is part of how we construct and know places, social and power relations and structures (Bondi, 2005;Davidson and Milligan, 2004;Heimtun, 2010;Sultana, 2011).…”

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Supporting mindful planners in a mindless system: limitations to the emotional turn in planning practice

Osborne¹,

Grant-Smith²

2015

Town Planning Review

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Despite widespread acknowledgment within planning scholarship that emotion-both present in knowledge and a form of knowledge-is integral to lived experience and the judgement of planners, it is often sidelined within planning practice. The extent to which mainstream planning has been able or willing to accommodate emotions remains constrained and the emotions of planners and the public remain an unacknowledged but pervasive presence. Antonio Ferreira recently highlighted in this journal the importance of attending to emotions at the level of the individual planner through the concept of mindfulness. We argue this approach must be complemented by an acknowledgement of the structural and institutional limitations of including emotions in planning practice. Drawing from the emotional geographies literature to describe a social-spatial conceptualisation of emotion, we highlight ontological and practical tensions associated with the achievement of the 'emotional turn' and advance a more purposeful engagement with emotion in mainstream planning practice.

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The holiday meal: eating out alone and mobile emotional geographies

Cited by 36 publications

References 40 publications

‘Wish YOU Weren’t Here!’: Interpersonal Conflicts and the Touristic Experiences of Norwegian and British Women Travelling with Friends

‘Wish YOU Weren’t Here!’: Interpersonal Conflicts and the Touristic Experiences of Norwegian and British Women Travelling with Friends

Family Practices, Holiday and the Everyday

Supporting mindful planners in a mindless system: limitations to the emotional turn in planning practice

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