Jennie Germann Molz
Biographic Data
| ID | 216640 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennie Germann Molz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennie Germann |
| FAMILY NAME | Molz |
| SIGNATURE | MOLZ J G |
| AFFILIATIONS | College of the Holy Cross |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6858-8144 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 376 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Guests without hosts: On the digital biopolitics of network hospitality
This article uses the concept of guests without hosts to explore digital biopolitics in hospitality at the intersections of platform capitalism, algorithmic governance and tourism dwelling design. Originally conceived to describe the blurring of hosting and guesting practices in network hospitality, the phrase guests without hosts is now devastatingly suited to more recent images of travellers stranded by disasters and pandemics, unwelcome strang…
Life in the age of extremes: Reconsidering biopolitical imaginaries in hospitality and tourism
The introduction maps the trajectory of this Special Issue’s key concepts, beginning with the theoretical embeddedness of biopolitics in contexts of crisis. Taking Hannah Arendt’s critical biopolitical reflections as a starting point, the article explores how, in more recent years, different schools of critical thought have approached the governance and protection of various human and nonhuman lifeforms. These evolving axiologies of life have exp…
Mothering in liminality: Toward a definition of third culture parenting
Moving with and against the state: Digital Nomads and Frictional Mobility Regimes
The mobile lifestyle of digital nomads mingles remote work, international travel, and multi-local living in ways that both submit to and resist state-based mobility regimes. In this article, we examine this apparent paradox by asking how digital nomads move both with the state and against it. Employing the metaphor of ‘friction’, the analytical lens of ‘governmobility’ and ethnographic fieldwork with digital nomads, the article illustrates how no…
Affect and Emotion in Tourism
"Bringing affect and emotion to the forefront of tourism studies, this book presents a new generation of scholars who consolidate emerging affective approaches and establish a route for scholarship that examines the roles of emotion and affect in tourism. Attuning to affect and emotion, this book steers the affective turn to encompass touring bodies and tourism places. Engaging the concept of affect as a constitutive element of social life often …
Gaze, Nomad, Dwelling: Metaphors for a Mobile Imagination
This article traces the enduring legacy of metaphorical thinking in John Urry's work. It begins with a reflection on metaphorical thinking as a mobile epistemology and then details the impact of three key metaphors Urry proposed in his work: the tourist gaze, nomads, and dwelling-in-mobility. The article focuses on the way these metaphors have informed my own research on mobile lifestyles, but also discusses the broader impact of Urry's metaphori…
Travel, technology, and hybrid mobilities: Interview with Jennie Germann Molz
In this interview, Germann Molz emphasized the idea that we must go beyond a moralistic view of technology. If we want to understand how people, places, mobile technologies, and digital or hybrid environments are intertwined, we need to change or adjust our analytical lenses. Rather than subscribing to technological determinism, she advocates for the concept of affordances
Attuning to affect and emotion in tourism studies
Affect and emotion permeate all levels of the everyday and extra-ordinary entanglements of travel and tourism with personal, collective and political life. With this Special Issue, we consolidate an emerging approach and establish a route for scholarship that explores these entanglements. Through a range of theoretical and empirical lenses, the contributors reveal what emotion does in tourism, tourism practices, and tourism studies. Attuning to a…
Hospitality & Society: Critical reflections on the theorizing of hospitality
This article is the second part of a critical reflection upon the progress of Hospitality & Society in its first ten years. Analysis of the articles published highlights conceptual contributions made to the field of hospitality studies. Thirteen major themes are identified: conceptualizations of hospitality; migration and labour; lifestyle; social hospitality; hospitality, consumption, global citizenship and ethics; addressing neglected areas of …
Reflecting on Hospitality & Society: The first ten years
This editorial is the first of a two-part critical reflection upon the progress of Hospitality & Society in its first ten years in relation to the original aims and ambitions. Drawing primarily upon the Dimensions database, a field of research analysis indicates the journal achieving multidisciplinary coverage through its publications with the four most popular fields being: studies in human society; sociology; commerce, management, tourism and s…
Theorizing hospitality: A reprise
This was the editorial for the first issue of Hospitality & Society, published in 2011. It has been reprinted to help contextualize the reflections in this 10-year anniversary issue, which consider how the journal has evolved, how its contributions have advanced the study of hospitality and society, and the future for the journal and the field. The editorial provides a narrative review of the disparate ways that hospitality has been conceptualize…
Tout (est) mobile: Convergence et distinction dans les modes de vie mobiles des familles pratiquant l’éducation par le voyage
Cet article contribue à l'exploration théorique des modes de vie mobiles en proposant les concepts connexes de ' convergence des modes de vie ' et de ' mode de vie comme distinction '. En développant ce cadre conceptuel, l'article s'appuie sur l'exemple de l'éducation par le voyage (worldschooling), un mode de vie mobile en vertu duquel des parents de la classe moyenne du Nord global retirent leurs enfants du cadre scolaire conventionnel pour les…
Slowing down with tourism
Giving Back, Doing Good, Feeling Global: The Affective Flows of Family Voluntourism
Whereas research on volunteer tourism has tended to focus on college-aged individuals, this article focuses on families with young children who volunteer abroad together. The article engages with scholarly debates surrounding the emotional and affective dimensions of voluntourism to examine how volunteering experiences encourage children to "feel global." Through a qualitative analysis of ethnographic stories about catharsis and comfort zones, th…
Mobilizing Hospitality: The Ethics of Social Relations in a Mobile World
A profile in intellectual hospitality: Remembering John Urry
Consumption, Tourism and
Practices of tourism and consumption, and sociological interest in the relationship between them, have evolved as part of a broader shift within western societies from production‐centered capitalism, with its focus on work and the conditions of labor, to consumer capitalism, with its emphasis on leisure, image, taste, style, and consumption. Tourism is emblematic of the contemporary consumer culture that emerged over the past century in western p…
The Social Affordances of Flashpacking: Exploring the Mobility Nexus of Travel and Communication
The proliferation of digital devices and online social media and networking technologies has altered the backpacking landscape in recent years. Thanks to the ready availability of online communication, travelers are now able to stay in continuous touch with friends, family and other travelers while on the move. This article introduces the practice of ‘flashpacking’ to describe this emerging trend and interrogates the patterns of connection and di…
Toward a network hospitality
The growing popularity of online hospitality exchange networks like Couchsurfing and Airbnb point toward a new paradigm of sociality for a mobile and networked society as hospitable encounters among friends and strangers become entangled with social media and networking technologies. Inspired by Andreas Wittel’s notion of ‘network sociality’, this paper introduces the concept of ‘network hospitality’ to describe the kind of sociality that emerges…
Social Networking Technologies and the Moral Economy of Alternative Tourism: The Case of couchsurfing.org
Travel Connections: Tourism, Technology, and Togetherness in a Mobile World
Living in a world that is increasingly ‘on the move’ means that many of us now rely on mobile devices, social media, and networking technologies to coordinate togetherness with our social networks even when we are apart. Nowhere is this phenomenon more evident than in the emerging practices of ‘interactive travel’. Today’s travellers are more likely than ever to pack a laptop or a mobile phone and to use these devices to stay in touch with friend…
Theorizing hospitality
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Performing Global Geographies: Time, Space, Place and Pace in Narratives of Round-the-World Travel
This paper explores the spatio-temporal dimensions of round-the-world travel by focusing on the way travellers weave together space and time in their round-the-world itineraries. Through an analysis of the narratives that round-the-world travellers publish online and recount in interviews, the paper argues that round-the-world itineraries map place, time and tempo into a global geography. The paper suggests that pace is of particular importance i…
Representing pace in tourism mobilities: Staycations, Slow Travel and The Amazing Race
This article examines the way popular representations of tourism make sense of pace within the context of Western modernity and asks how certain ethical and ideological values come to be associated with speed, slowness or stillness. In the typical story of modernity, speed is commonly associated with positive values such as 'freedom' and 'progress', while slowness and stillness are often seen as marginal or undesirable modes of mobility. The anal…
Global Abode: Home and Mobility in Narratives of Round-the-World Travel
This article explores the way home is redefined within the context of new patterns of corporeal and mediated travel by examining the complex intersection of mobility, home, and belonging from the perspective of long-term world travelers. Through an examination of the stories these round-the-world travelers tell online and in interviews, the article suggests that travelers imagine themselves as world citizens who are able to feel at home anywhere …
Theorizing hospitality
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Eating Difference: The Cosmopolitan Mobilities of Culinary Tourism
This article examines the intersecting mobilities that are involved in culinary tourism. The term culinary tourism refers to practices of exploratory eating, especially in which unfamiliar foods are seen as an encounter with Otherness. Through an analysis of the travel narratives recounted by travelers in their Web sites and interviews, the article speculates on the material relations among food, travelers' bodies, and consumption of “the global.…
Global Abode: Home and Mobility in Narratives of Round-the-World Travel
This article explores the way home is redefined within the context of new patterns of corporeal and mediated travel by examining the complex intersection of mobility, home, and belonging from the perspective of long-term world travelers. Through an examination of the stories these round-the-world travelers tell online and in interviews, the article suggests that travelers imagine themselves as world citizens who are able to feel at home anywhere …
Representing pace in tourism mobilities: Staycations, Slow Travel and The Amazing Race
This article examines the way popular representations of tourism make sense of pace within the context of Western modernity and asks how certain ethical and ideological values come to be associated with speed, slowness or stillness. In the typical story of modernity, speed is commonly associated with positive values such as 'freedom' and 'progress', while slowness and stillness are often seen as marginal or undesirable modes of mobility. The anal…
Cosmopolitan Bodies: Fit to Travel and Travelling to Fit
This article aims to respond to recent calls for more material accounts of cosmopolitanism by considering the way the cosmopolitan sensibilities of flexibility, adaptability, tolerance and openness to difference are literally embodied by a specific group of mobile subjects. Drawing on a study of round-the-world travellers and the 'body stories' they publish in their online travelogues, this article explores the various ways travellers embody cosm…
Social Networking Technologies and the Moral Economy of Alternative Tourism: The Case of couchsurfing.org
Watch us Wander: Mobile Surveillance and the Surveillance of Mobility
Social relations between geographically distant and mobile individuals are increasingly mediated through new information and communication technologies. In this paper I argue that the configuration of these mobile social relations can be understood through a model of interpersonal surveillance that, unlike hierarchical state structures of surveillance, constitutes a decentralised social relation between individuals. This shift may be characterise…
The Social Affordances of Flashpacking: Exploring the Mobility Nexus of Travel and Communication
The proliferation of digital devices and online social media and networking technologies has altered the backpacking landscape in recent years. Thanks to the ready availability of online communication, travelers are now able to stay in continuous touch with friends, family and other travelers while on the move. This article introduces the practice of ‘flashpacking’ to describe this emerging trend and interrogates the patterns of connection and di…
Performing Global Geographies: Time, Space, Place and Pace in Narratives of Round-the-World Travel
This paper explores the spatio-temporal dimensions of round-the-world travel by focusing on the way travellers weave together space and time in their round-the-world itineraries. Through an analysis of the narratives that round-the-world travellers publish online and recount in interviews, the paper argues that round-the-world itineraries map place, time and tempo into a global geography. The paper suggests that pace is of particular importance i…
Attuning to affect and emotion in tourism studies
Affect and emotion permeate all levels of the everyday and extra-ordinary entanglements of travel and tourism with personal, collective and political life. With this Special Issue, we consolidate an emerging approach and establish a route for scholarship that explores these entanglements. Through a range of theoretical and empirical lenses, the contributors reveal what emotion does in tourism, tourism practices, and tourism studies. Attuning to a…
Moving with and against the state: Digital Nomads and Frictional Mobility Regimes
The mobile lifestyle of digital nomads mingles remote work, international travel, and multi-local living in ways that both submit to and resist state-based mobility regimes. In this article, we examine this apparent paradox by asking how digital nomads move both with the state and against it. Employing the metaphor of ‘friction’, the analytical lens of ‘governmobility’ and ethnographic fieldwork with digital nomads, the article illustrates how no…
"Getting a "Flexible Eye: Round-the-World Travel and Scales of Cosmopolitan Citizenship
The “flexible eye” describes a particularly cosmopolitan perspective derived through mobility, detachment and multiplicity as opposed to rooted-ness or national affiliation. In this article, I explore the extent to which the “flexible eye” serves as an apt metaphor for the spatial and civic affiliations enacted by round-the-world travellers. The discussion here is based on research that examines the narratives travellers publish online while trav…
Giving Back, Doing Good, Feeling Global: The Affective Flows of Family Voluntourism
Whereas research on volunteer tourism has tended to focus on college-aged individuals, this article focuses on families with young children who volunteer abroad together. The article engages with scholarly debates surrounding the emotional and affective dimensions of voluntourism to examine how volunteering experiences encourage children to "feel global." Through a qualitative analysis of ethnographic stories about catharsis and comfort zones, th…
A profile in intellectual hospitality: Remembering John Urry
"Getting a "Flexible Eye: Round-the-World Travel and Scales of Cosmopolitan Citizenship
The “flexible eye” describes a particularly cosmopolitan perspective derived through mobility, detachment and multiplicity as opposed to rooted-ness or national affiliation. In this article, I explore the extent to which the “flexible eye” serves as an apt metaphor for the spatial and civic affiliations enacted by round-the-world travellers. The discussion here is based on research that examines the narratives travellers publish online while trav…
Cosmopolitan Bodies: Fit to Travel and Travelling to Fit
This article aims to respond to recent calls for more material accounts of cosmopolitanism by considering the way the cosmopolitan sensibilities of flexibility, adaptability, tolerance and openness to difference are literally embodied by a specific group of mobile subjects. Drawing on a study of round-the-world travellers and the 'body stories' they publish in their online travelogues, this article explores the various ways travellers embody cosm…
Watch us Wander: Mobile Surveillance and the Surveillance of Mobility
Social relations between geographically distant and mobile individuals are increasingly mediated through new information and communication technologies. In this paper I argue that the configuration of these mobile social relations can be understood through a model of interpersonal surveillance that, unlike hierarchical state structures of surveillance, constitutes a decentralised social relation between individuals. This shift may be characterise…
Consumption, Tourism and
Practices of tourism and consumption, and recent sociological interest in the relationship between them, have evolved as part of a broader shift within western societies from production‐centered capitalism, with its focus on work and the conditions of labor, to consumer capitalism, with its emphasis on leisure, image, taste, style, and consumption. In fact, many sociologists consider tourism to be emblematic of the contemporary consumer culture t…
Eating Difference: The Cosmopolitan Mobilities of Culinary Tourism
This article examines the intersecting mobilities that are involved in culinary tourism. The term culinary tourism refers to practices of exploratory eating, especially in which unfamiliar foods are seen as an encounter with Otherness. Through an analysis of the travel narratives recounted by travelers in their Web sites and interviews, the article speculates on the material relations among food, travelers' bodies, and consumption of “the global.…
Global Abode: Home and Mobility in Narratives of Round-the-World Travel
This article explores the way home is redefined within the context of new patterns of corporeal and mediated travel by examining the complex intersection of mobility, home, and belonging from the perspective of long-term world travelers. Through an examination of the stories these round-the-world travelers tell online and in interviews, the article suggests that travelers imagine themselves as world citizens who are able to feel at home anywhere …
Representing pace in tourism mobilities: Staycations, Slow Travel and The Amazing Race
This article examines the way popular representations of tourism make sense of pace within the context of Western modernity and asks how certain ethical and ideological values come to be associated with speed, slowness or stillness. In the typical story of modernity, speed is commonly associated with positive values such as 'freedom' and 'progress', while slowness and stillness are often seen as marginal or undesirable modes of mobility. The anal…
Performing Global Geographies: Time, Space, Place and Pace in Narratives of Round-the-World Travel
This paper explores the spatio-temporal dimensions of round-the-world travel by focusing on the way travellers weave together space and time in their round-the-world itineraries. Through an analysis of the narratives that round-the-world travellers publish online and recount in interviews, the paper argues that round-the-world itineraries map place, time and tempo into a global geography. The paper suggests that pace is of particular importance i…
Theorizing hospitality
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Travel Connections: Tourism, Technology, and Togetherness in a Mobile World
Living in a world that is increasingly ‘on the move’ means that many of us now rely on mobile devices, social media, and networking technologies to coordinate togetherness with our social networks even when we are apart. Nowhere is this phenomenon more evident than in the emerging practices of ‘interactive travel’. Today’s travellers are more likely than ever to pack a laptop or a mobile phone and to use these devices to stay in touch with friend…
Social Networking Technologies and the Moral Economy of Alternative Tourism: The Case of couchsurfing.org
Toward a network hospitality
The growing popularity of online hospitality exchange networks like Couchsurfing and Airbnb point toward a new paradigm of sociality for a mobile and networked society as hospitable encounters among friends and strangers become entangled with social media and networking technologies. Inspired by Andreas Wittel’s notion of ‘network sociality’, this paper introduces the concept of ‘network hospitality’ to describe the kind of sociality that emerges…
Consumption, Tourism and
Practices of tourism and consumption, and sociological interest in the relationship between them, have evolved as part of a broader shift within western societies from production‐centered capitalism, with its focus on work and the conditions of labor, to consumer capitalism, with its emphasis on leisure, image, taste, style, and consumption. Tourism is emblematic of the contemporary consumer culture that emerged over the past century in western p…
The Social Affordances of Flashpacking: Exploring the Mobility Nexus of Travel and Communication
The proliferation of digital devices and online social media and networking technologies has altered the backpacking landscape in recent years. Thanks to the ready availability of online communication, travelers are now able to stay in continuous touch with friends, family and other travelers while on the move. This article introduces the practice of ‘flashpacking’ to describe this emerging trend and interrogates the patterns of connection and di…
Mobilizing Hospitality: The Ethics of Social Relations in a Mobile World
A profile in intellectual hospitality: Remembering John Urry
Giving Back, Doing Good, Feeling Global: The Affective Flows of Family Voluntourism
Whereas research on volunteer tourism has tended to focus on college-aged individuals, this article focuses on families with young children who volunteer abroad together. The article engages with scholarly debates surrounding the emotional and affective dimensions of voluntourism to examine how volunteering experiences encourage children to "feel global." Through a qualitative analysis of ethnographic stories about catharsis and comfort zones, th…
Slowing down with tourism
Hospitality & Society: Critical reflections on the theorizing of hospitality
This article is the second part of a critical reflection upon the progress of Hospitality & Society in its first ten years. Analysis of the articles published highlights conceptual contributions made to the field of hospitality studies. Thirteen major themes are identified: conceptualizations of hospitality; migration and labour; lifestyle; social hospitality; hospitality, consumption, global citizenship and ethics; addressing neglected areas of …
Reflecting on Hospitality & Society: The first ten years
This editorial is the first of a two-part critical reflection upon the progress of Hospitality & Society in its first ten years in relation to the original aims and ambitions. Drawing primarily upon the Dimensions database, a field of research analysis indicates the journal achieving multidisciplinary coverage through its publications with the four most popular fields being: studies in human society; sociology; commerce, management, tourism and s…
Theorizing hospitality: A reprise
This was the editorial for the first issue of Hospitality & Society, published in 2011. It has been reprinted to help contextualize the reflections in this 10-year anniversary issue, which consider how the journal has evolved, how its contributions have advanced the study of hospitality and society, and the future for the journal and the field. The editorial provides a narrative review of the disparate ways that hospitality has been conceptualize…
Tout (est) mobile: Convergence et distinction dans les modes de vie mobiles des familles pratiquant l’éducation par le voyage
Cet article contribue à l'exploration théorique des modes de vie mobiles en proposant les concepts connexes de ' convergence des modes de vie ' et de ' mode de vie comme distinction '. En développant ce cadre conceptuel, l'article s'appuie sur l'exemple de l'éducation par le voyage (worldschooling), un mode de vie mobile en vertu duquel des parents de la classe moyenne du Nord global retirent leurs enfants du cadre scolaire conventionnel pour les…
Attuning to affect and emotion in tourism studies
Affect and emotion permeate all levels of the everyday and extra-ordinary entanglements of travel and tourism with personal, collective and political life. With this Special Issue, we consolidate an emerging approach and establish a route for scholarship that explores these entanglements. Through a range of theoretical and empirical lenses, the contributors reveal what emotion does in tourism, tourism practices, and tourism studies. Attuning to a…
Affect and Emotion in Tourism
"Bringing affect and emotion to the forefront of tourism studies, this book presents a new generation of scholars who consolidate emerging affective approaches and establish a route for scholarship that examines the roles of emotion and affect in tourism. Attuning to affect and emotion, this book steers the affective turn to encompass touring bodies and tourism places. Engaging the concept of affect as a constitutive element of social life often …
Gaze, Nomad, Dwelling: Metaphors for a Mobile Imagination
This article traces the enduring legacy of metaphorical thinking in John Urry's work. It begins with a reflection on metaphorical thinking as a mobile epistemology and then details the impact of three key metaphors Urry proposed in his work: the tourist gaze, nomads, and dwelling-in-mobility. The article focuses on the way these metaphors have informed my own research on mobile lifestyles, but also discusses the broader impact of Urry's metaphori…
Sociology (20 works) · Political science (19 works) · Tourism (19 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (10 works) · Hospitality (10 works) · Social science (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Geography (9 works)