Locating Imagination in Popular Culture
Locating Imagination in Popular Culture offers a multidisciplinary account of the ways in which popular culture, tourism, and notions of place intertwine in an environment characterized by ongoing processes of globalization, digitization, and the increasingly ubiquitous nature of multimedia.
Centred around the concept of imagination, the authors demonstrate how popular culture and media are becoming increasingly important in the ways in which places and localities are imagined and how they also subsequently stimulate a desire to visit the actual places in which peoples favourite stories are set. With examples drawn from around the globe, the book offers a unique study of the role of narratives conveyed through media in stimulating and reflecting desire in tourism.
This book will have appeal in a wide variety of academic disciplines, ranging from media and cultural studies to fan and tourism studies, cultural geography, literary studies, and cultural sociology.
Nicky van Es, MSc, is currently a lecturer at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Next to teaching within the International Bachelor of Arts & Culture Studies, he co-founded the MA programme Place, Culture & Tourism (2018). In addition, he is working towards finalizing his dissertation (exp. 2020) on literary tourism as part of the Locating Imagination project, funded by the Dutch Science Foundation. Among his published research articles are Chasing Sleuths (Annals of Tourism Research, 2016) and Capital Crime Cities (European Journal of Cultural Studies, 2016) and several book chapters, and he is the main editor of the upcoming edited volume Locating Imagination in Popular Culture (Routledge, 2020).
Stijn Reijnders, PhD, is Full Professor of Cultural Heritage, in Particular in Relation to Tourism and Popular Culture at Erasmus University Rotterdam. His research focuses on the intersection of media, culture, and tourism. Currently he leads two large international research projects: Worlds of Imagination, funded by the European Research Council, and Locating Imagination, funded by the Dutch Science Foundation. He has published many research papers and has co-edited The Ashgate Research Companion to Fan Cultures (2014), Film Tourism in Asia: Evolution, Transformation and Trajectory (2017), and Locating Imagination: Place, Tourism and Belonging in Popular Culture (2020).
Leonieke Bolderman, PhD, is Assistant Professor, Cultural Geography and Tourism Geography and Planning at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Her research concerns the role and meaning of music heritage and tourism in urban and regional development, on which she has published in various journals and edited volumes.
Abby Waysdorf, PhD, is currently a postdoctoral researcher with the CADEAH project, researching how individuals and groups reappropriate and recirculate audiovisual heritage materials. She did a research master at Utrecht University in media and performance studies, with a specialty in sport media and fandom, and her PhD at Erasmus University Rotterdam, where her dissertation, Placing Fandom, focused on film tourism and fan use of place. Her general research interests are audience practices and uses of media, fandom, the television industry, and how all of these things intersect.
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Contents
STIJN REIJNDERS, ABBY WAYSDORF, LEONIEKE BOLDERMAN AND NICKY VAN ES
PART I
Theorizing the imagination
1 Imaginative heritage: towards a holistic perspective on media, tourism, and governance
STIJN REIJNDERS
2 The open-ended ruin: imaginative authenticity as a driver of alternative tourism
ANDR JANSSON
3 No place like Birmingham? The politics of immobility, invisibility, and resentment
DAVID MORLEY
4 I just cant get you out of my head: how music triggers the imagination
LEONIEKE BOLDERMAN
5 Space, lived culture, and affectivities in stirring imagination
DAVID CROUCH
Part II
Mediating place
6 Screening the west coast: developing New Nordic Noir tourism in Denmark and using the actual places as full-scale visual mood boards for the scriptwriting process
ANNE MARIT WAADE
7 Flying down to a cosmopolitan-tropical paradise
BIANCA FREIRE-MEDEIROS
8 Following Oshin and Amachan: film tourism and nation branding in the analogue and digital ages
ELISABETH SCHERER AND TIMO THELEN