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Actor-Network Theory and Tourism: Ordering, Materiality and Multiplicity book cover

1st Edition

Actor-Network Theory and Tourism Ordering, Materiality and Multiplicity

Edited By René van der Duim, Carina Ren, Gunnar Thór Jóhannesson Copyright 2012
200 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

200 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

200 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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The recent surfacing of actor-network theory (ANT) in tourism studies correlates to a rising interest in understanding tourism as emergent thorough relational practice connecting cultures, natures and technologies in multifarious ways. Despite the widespread application of ANT across the social sciences, no book has dealt with the practical and theoretical implications of using ANT in Tourism... Read more

1. Introduction 2. How ANT Works 3. Tourismscapes, Entrepreneurs and Sustainability: Enacting ANT in Tourism Studies 4. The Choreography of a Mobile World: Tourism Orderings 5. Tourism Materialities: Enacting Cigars in Touristic Cuba 6. Enacting Risk at Bessegen 7. Walking Down the Boulevard: On Performing Cultural Tourism Mobilities 8. Enacting Destinations: The Politics of Absence and Presence 9. Destinations as Virtual Objects of Tourist Communication 10. Tourism, ANT and the Earth 11. Gatherings: Ordering, Materiality and Multiplicity

Biography

René van der Duim has a Special Professorship Tourism and Sustainable Development in the Department of Environmental Studies at Wageningen University, the Netherlands.

Carina Ren is Assistant Professor at the Department of Culture and Global Studies at Aalborg University, Denmark.

Gunnar Thór Jóhannesson is Assistant Professor at the Department of Life and Environmentsl Sciences at University of Iceland and project manager at the Social Science Research Institute of University of Iceland.

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