Taking-place
Refracted Enchantment and the Habitual Spaces of the Tourist Souvenir
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3978409 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nissa Ramsay (University of Sheffield, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 197-217 |
| Publication date | 2009-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social & Cultural Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1464-9365 • E-ISSN: 1470-1197 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14649360802652111 |
| OpenAlex | W1997975401 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 35 |
| References cited | 54 |
This paper explores how a renewed engagement with conceptions of objects in social and cultural geography can be informed by empirical research with tourist souvenirs undertaken in Swaziland (Southern Africa) and the UK. It begins by considering how Jane Bennett's (2001) notion of enchantment offers a useful imagination of materiality of the souvenir-object. In particular, the 'momentary immobilising encounter' of enchantment translates into ethnographic research attentive to the presence of objects as they interrupt the flow of everyday life. This paper explores how the method of 'following' might be adapted to attend to the processual nature of object agency and materiality. It draws upon research into how objects were produced, marketed, sold and purchased as souvenirs in various locations in Swaziland (Southern Africa), as well as how souvenir-objects were displayed, used and kept in tourist's homes across the UK. Enchantment was both integral to and yet excessive of interactions with these objects. This paper therefore develops the notion of 'refracted enchantment' to explore the presence of things as always produced, habitual and residual. In doing so it demonstrates how the complexity of relations between people, things and their spatiality take-place through souvenir-objects
Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Archaeology · Art · Cultural geography · Epistemology · Ethnography · Everyday life · Human geography · Materiality · Materiality (auditing · Object (grammar · Social science · Sociology · Tourism · Visual arts · Anthropology · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Religious Tourism and Spaces · History · Philosophy
Souvenir practices of domestic tourists
Souvenirs in Tourism Studies
Destitution and displacement
The lie of the lion
Migration and everyday matters
Tokens of renewal
Performing Transylvania
Puffin love”
Mobile testimony in the information age
Food as a leisure pursuit, a United Kingdom perspective
Becoming ‘enchanted’ in agro-food spaces
Waypoints for literacy researchers
The Relevance of the Souvenirs, Food, Experiences and Facilities of a Bordered Destination on the Key Relationship of Perceived Value, Attitudes and Satisfaction
Enchanting resilience
Post-holiday memory work
Following things of rubbish value
Collecting, kitsch and the intimate geographies of social memory
The enchantment of western things
Crossing the qualitative- quantitative divide II
Souvenirs, materialities and animal encounters
On geography and encounter
Souvenirs
Souvenirs
(Re)enchanting geography? The nature of being critical and the character of critique in human geography
Tourism and toponymy
Negotiating the 'Place' and 'Placement' of Banal Tourist Souvenirs in the Home
Geographies of Touch/Touched by Geography
I am Tower of Hamlets
Interacting with the dead
Beyond exploitation/empowerment
Interpellation and Urban transformation
Making material memories
Living with the past at home
Souvenir salvage and the death of great naval ships
The 'Minor' Politics of Rightful Presence
On Longing
The Enchantment of Modern Life
The Social Life of Things
Ethnography in/of the World System
Material Geographies and Postcolonialism
Doing Visual Ethnography
“How Shall I Say it … ?” Relating the Nonrelational
Culture, Economy and Tourism Commodities
History, memory and the everyday
This, that, and the other
Geographies of food
The Souvenir
Archaeologies of the Contemporary Past
Matter(s) in social and cultural geography
Retailers, knowledges and changing commodity networks
Time-stilled space-slowed
Geographies of talk
Geographies of talk
An event of geographical ethics in spaces of affect
Hybrid Geographies
Consuming Ethics
Material Cultures of Tourism
After Method
Hard Bargaining in Sumatra
Authenticity Anxiety and Counterfeit Confidence
Commodity Cultures
Qualitative methods
Enchanted Spaces
Moving things along
Reading fair trade
On souvenirs and metonymy
Locating processes of identification
Follow the Thing
Secondhandedness
Afterwords
Rematerializing social and cultural geography
Spatial Textures
Becoming and Being Hopeful
On Geography and Materiality
Commodity Fetishism, Geographical Imaginations and Imaginative Geographies
Geographies that matter--the rhetorical deployment of physicality
Aesthetics and Market Demand
An urban tour
Performance and Possession
The World On a Plate
The Story of the Amulet
Observed Decay
Waste Matter - The Debris of Industrial Ruins and the Disordering of the Material World
What's in a Price
The Status of the Object
Dismantling Mantelpieces
Homework
Consumption Caught in the 'Cash Nexus
| Unique citing works | 35 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,06 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2025 (17) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 35 |