Catherine Palmer - Tourism and Embodiment

The role of the body and the concept of embodiment have largely been neglected in anthropological studies of tourism. This book explores the notion of the tourist body and develops understanding of how touristic practice is embodied practice, not only for tourists but also for those who work in tourism.

This book provides a more holistic understanding of the role of the body in making and re-making self and world by engaging with tourism. This collection brings together scholars whose work intersects with the anthropology of tourism who each draw upon ethnographically informed research based on international case studies that include India, Turkey, Australia and Tasmania, Denmark, the United States, Nepal, France, Italy, South Africa and Spain. The case studies focus on a variety of themes including human and nonhuman bodies.

The range of case studies gives the book an international appeal that makes it valuable to academic researchers and students in the disciplines of social anthropology, cultural geography, sociology, philosophy and the field of tourism studies itself.

Catherine Palmer, PhD, is an anthropologist, Centre for Memory, Narrative and Histories, University of Brighton, UK, and a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

Hazel Andrews, PhD, is a social anthropologist and Reader in Tourism, Culture and Society at Liverpool John Moores University, UK.

Series Editors: Dr Catherine Palmer (University of Brighton, UK)

Dr Jo-Anne Lester (University of Brighton, UK)

To discuss any ideas for the series please contact Faye Leerink, Commissioning Editor: or the Series Editors.

This series draws inspiration from anthropologys overarching aim to explore and better understand the human condition in all its fascinating diversity. It seeks to expand the intellectual landscape of anthropology and tourism in relation to how we understand the experience of being human, providing critical inquiry into the spaces, places and lives in which tourism unfolds. Contributions to the series will consider how such spaces are embodied, imagined, constructed, experienced, memorialised and contested. The series provides a forum for cutting-edge research and innovative thinking from tourism, anthropology and related disciplines such as philosophy, history, sociology, geography, cultural studies, architecture, the arts and feminist studies.

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Tourism and Embodiment

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For more information about this series please visit: www.routledge.com/Routledge-Advances-in-Tourism-and-Anthropology/book-series/RATA

Edited by

Catherine Palmer and Hazel Andrews

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Names: Palmer, Catherine (Catherine A.), editor. | Andrews, Hazel, editor.

Title: Tourism and embodiment / edited by Catherine Palmer and Hazel Andrews.

Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2019. | Series: Routledge advances in tourism and anthropology | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019017659

Subjects: LCSH: TourismAnthropological aspects. | TourismSocial aspects. | Holistic tourism.

Classification: LCC G156.5.A58 T64 2019 | DDC 306.4/819dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019017659

ISBN: 978-1-138-57355-0 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-0-203-70153-9 (ebk)

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Hazel Andrews (Editor), PhD, is a social anthropologist and Reader in Tourism, Culture and Society at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. With a particular focus on practices of embodiment, consumption, habitus and place, Hazels research and publications have examined social and symbolic constructions of national, regional and gendered identities in the context of British tourists to Mallorca. Her current research involves the application of theories of existential anthropology to understandings of tourists experiences and an examination of discourses of nationalism in tourism imagery. Hazel is the author of numerous texts on her work in Mallorca including The British on Holiday. Charter Tourism, Identity and Consumption (2011), Liminal Landscapes: Travel, Experience and Spaces Inbetween (2012) and Tourism and Violence (2014). She is also a founding editor of the Journal of Tourism Consumption and Practice.

Kaya Barry, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research at Griffith University. Her research in tourism and cultural geography explores the intersections of mobilities, migration, creativity and material practices. She has exhibited creative artworks in Australia, UK, Iceland, Finland and online, and recently published the monograph Everyday Practices of Tourism Mobilities (2018, Routledge).

Geoffrey R. Bird, PhD, is an Associate Professor and chair of the School of Tourism and Hospitality Management at Royal Roads University, Victoria, Canada. Geoff is the lead for the War Heritage Research Initiative (warheritage.royalroads.ca), directing and producing over 30 documentary vignettes. He has had a long fascination with the interplay between remembrance, landscapes of war and tourism from various perspectives: researcher, guide, former naval officer, tourist and educator. He has over 30 years of experience in the field of tourism in a variety of areas, including poverty alleviation, war heritage, and education policy and programme design.

Rafael Cruces Portales, PhD, is a Lecturer in Sustainable Tourism, specialising in accessible tourism, at Ostelea, School of Tourism and Hospitality, Madrid, Spain. He is a member of the Culturdes Research Group at Universitas Miguel Hernandez, Spain. In 2015, he published a paper related to the future of accessible tourism titled: Removing invisible barriers: opening paths towards the future of accessible tourism