Understanding Tourism Mobilities in Japan (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Endo, Hideki

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume will expand the inquiry of tourism mobilities comprehensively and clearly in the fields of the humanities and social sciences.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429759901
• Artikelnr.: 60026066

Autorenporträt

Hideki Endo is a Professor in Tourism Research in the Faculty of Letters and Executive Director of the Institute of Humanities, Human and Social Sciences at Ritsumeikan University, Japan. He has studied the sociology of tourism, especially the social transformation that mobility and tourism bring. Among his publications are Tourism Mobilities (2017), Media and Culture (2017), Space and Media (2015), Tourism and Media (2014), Contemporary Cultural Studies (2011) and Actualities in Sociology of Tourism (2010).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Significance of Research on Tourism Mobilities and
Related Issues 1. Seeking Sensuous Mobilities: Tourist Quests for
Familiarity and Alterity 2. Tourism, 'Nowstalgia' and the (Non)experience
of Place 3. New Tourism and Social Transformation in Postmodernity:
Sociological Examination of Japanese New Tourism 4. Late Tourism and
'Boomerang' Mobility in Japan 5. Mobility Turn in Rural Districts in
Japan: From "Kanko(-) (tourism)" to "Kankei (relationships)" 6. The New
Mobile Assemblages Created by Pokémon GO 7. The Roots and Routes of
Matryoshka: Souvenirs and Tourist Mobility in Russia, Japan, and the World
8. "Transference of Traditions" in Tourism: Local Identities as Images
Reflected in Infinity Mirrors 9. Marathon Mobilities: A Western Tourist
Perspective on Japanese Marathons 10. Performative Nationalism in Japan's
Inbound Tourism Television Programmes: YOU, Sekai! (The World), and the
Tourism Nation 11. Shibuya Crossing as A Non-Tourist Site: Performative
Participation and Re-Staging 12. Mobilising Pilgrim Bodily Space: The
Contest Between Authentic and Folk Pilgrimage in the Interwar Period 13.
Digital Media as "Social Spaces" of Tourism: The Japanese Cases of
Travelling Material Things