Fairy tourism

Negotiating the Production of Fantasy Geographies and Magical Storyscapes

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5761744
AutoresJane Lovell (0000-0002-6341-7984, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, UK, autor correspondente), Nitasha Sharma (0000-0002-8459-965X, Department of Geography, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA)
Ano2023
Volume25
Fascículo8
Páginas1929-1946
Data de publicação2023-11-17
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoTourism Geographies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1461-6688 • E-ISSN: 1470-1340
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14616688.2023.2290662
OpenAlexW4389384959
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas25

This research brings an original anthropological approach to the understanding of how the tourism industry negotiates the construction of elusive, magical geographies. Fairy tourism or 'fairy hunting' has been acknowledged since the nineteenth century, but is largely overlooked in tourism literature, despite increasing exposure to fairy motifs through multi-media platforms, including films, gaming, and literature. This study examines fairy festivals using a theoretical framework based on the novel concept of 'liminal affective technologies,' (LATS), that are designed to enhance transformative potentiality. An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis method is used to analyse how fairy festival producers generate approximations of Fairyland. To create fairyscapes, their organisers devise LATs, such as situating the events in places that are bucolic, mystical and connected to local folklore, and staging workshops, music, and activities, such as wish-making, using fairy-themed motifs, to reinforce the magical narrative. Yet several festival producers 'toned down' the troublesome or Pagan elements of the fairyscape, explaining the surreality of their events to visitors as dreamscapes

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