Materialities of tourism in the twenty-first century
A very brief introduction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12697828 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Muecke (0000-0003-1634-8637, UNSW Sydney, corresponding author), Carsten Wergin (0000-0001-6362-5241, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 227-230 |
| Publication date | 2014-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Tourist Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1468-7976 • E-ISSN: 1741-3206 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1468797614536307 |
| OpenAlex | W2141919402 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 23 |
The ‘material turn’, seen across a number of disciplines in recent years, turns, in this issue, towards tourism studies. From its early appearances as ‘thing theory’, marked by Bill Brown’s special edition of Critical Inquiry in the Fall of 2001, it has had renewed impact in the social sciences, even though parts of anthropology would insist that they have always paid profound and detailed attention to ‘material cultures’. What changed, for instance, with the impact of Bruno Latour’s (2013) insistence on the agency of things and his inclusion of non-humans in a reconfigured governance model, is that objects achieve a surprising ‘vibrancy’ (Bennett, 2010). To coin a slogan, the newer materialist turn enjoins us not to see things as all being dead in the same way (merely material, all composed of atoms), but being potentially alive in their own unique ways. Objects and non-humans are not just there to serve us, or, for the gaze of the humanities, to provide rich textual or symbolic ‘readings’. ‘We’ are no longer looking out and interpreting the ‘world’ across an imaginary but powerful divide. There are complex pathways of humans and non-human entanglement that need to be traced along knowledge
Aesthetics · Art · Economic geography · Geography · Media studies · Political science · Sociology · Tourism · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Travel Writing and Literature
Tourism
On HolidayA History of Vacationing
‘Inhabiting’ - Landscapes and Natures
Material Cultures
Being-on-Holiday
The Technological Body in Tourism Research and Praxis
Performing Tourist Places
Tourism
Hybrid Geographies
Material Cultures of Tourism
An Inquiry Into Modes of Existence
The trouble with tourism and travel theory
The Perception of the Environment
Spacing, Performing, and Becoming
Inhuman/Nonhuman/Human
Technology, Power, and Space-The Means and Ends of Geographies of Technology
Material cultures
The Perception of the Environment
Vibrant Matter
Playing With Things
Thing Theory
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2020 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |