Rethinking Europeanness through travelling imaginative geographies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7921085 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Chiara Rabbiosi (0000-0002-2470-7962, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1165-1183 |
| Publication date | 2025-11-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Mobilities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1745-0101 • E-ISSN: 1745-011X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17450101.2025.2485294 |
| OpenAlex | W4409198165 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 87 |
Tourism mobilities play a significant role in how European identity and the European space are imagined, encountered, and negotiated, but this role has rarely been interrogated. To address this gap, the present article discusses the nexus between tourism and Europeanness, drawing from the concept of ‘travelling imaginative geographies of Europe’. This concept was developed from literature that identifies Europeanness as everyday practice, geographical imaginations, tourism, and mobilities. To test the concept, a limited number of tourist pictures that were shared in a pilot study conducted with 24 ‘students-cum-tourists’–international Master’s-level students who had gone on tourist trips across Europe–are presented. The pilot study results revealed that travelling imaginative geographies reproduces and challenges consolidated narratives on Europeanness, including the role of cultural heritage and tourism mobilities, urban sociability and public space, embodied semiotics, and perceived
Aesthetics · Art · Economic geography · Epistemology · Geography · Social science · Sociology · European Union Policy and Governance · Gender Studies · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Higher Education Governance and Development · Philosophy
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Everyday Europe
Introduction to Migration Studies
Reinventing the Local in Tourism
Citizens of Europe
Tourism Mobilities
The Tourist Gaze 3.0
Evaluating the impact of the Erasmus programme
On imagination and imaginaries, mobility and immobility
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Labour migration and tourism mobilities
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Mediating the Tourist Experience
The Bologna Dynamic
Intra‐European Student Mobility and European Identity
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Introduction
Bringing Erasmus home
Meme-ing Europe
Unsettling the aesthetics of air travel through participatory tourist photography
Tourist encounters
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Europeanisation and Its Discontents
International student migration and the European ‘Year Abroad’
Mainstreaming heritages
The European cultural capital event
Borderscapes of external Europeanization in the Mediterranean neighbourhood
Discourses of Europeanness in the reception of the European Capital of Culture events
Europe as a Social Process and Discourse
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Visionary geographies and European Studies
Mapping the political geographies of Europeanization
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The “vicious circle” of tourism development in heritage cities
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Sensing, imagining, doing Europe
The spatialities of Europeanisation
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |