Rethinking activism

Tourism, Mobilities and Emotion

Bibliographic Data

ID3978138
AuthorsAnna De Jong (0000-0003-3776-1607, University of the Highlands and Islands, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume18
Issue6
Pages851-868
Publication date2017-08-18
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial & Cultural Geography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1464-9365 • E-ISSN: 1470-1197
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14649365.2016.1239754
OpenAlexW2529207569
LanguageEN
Citations received16
References cited45

This article seeks to trouble distinctions between activism and tourism, and activism and regionality. It does this by exploring the role of tourism, mobilities and emotion for a regional Australian queer collective, and their 1400 km return journey to the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade. In illustrating the ways this touristic journey represents alternative ways of performing queer activism, I argue that the existence of regional activism deconstructs notions that non-normative sexualities and queer politics do not exist beyond urban centres. Granting attention to the alternative ways the queer collective utilises tourism mobilities as part of their activism strengthens characterisations of leisure as always more than a space of hedonism and escape. Understanding the broader significance of events enables scholars to rethink festivals as spatially and temporally bounded, one off events but rather crucial to the ongoing sustainability of regional queer collectives and performances of queer activism in peripheral areas

Aesthetics · Human sexuality · Lesbian · Media studies · Mobilities · Normative · Performative utterance · Political science · Politics · Queer · Social science · Sociology · Tourism · Gender Studies · Law · Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society