1st Edition

Affect and Emotion in Tourism

Edited By Dorina-Maria Buda, Jennie Germann Molz Copyright 2023
332 Pages
by Routledge

332 Pages
by Routledge

332 Pages
by Routledge

Bringing affect and emotion to the forefront of tourism studies, this book presents a new generation of scholars who consolidate emerging affective approaches and establish a route for scholarship that examines the roles of emotion and affect in tourism. Attuning to affect and emotion, this book steers the affective turn to encompass touring bodies and tourism places. Engaging the concept of... Read more

Foreword

Mike Robinson

Introduction: Attuning to affect and emotion in tourism studies

Jennie Germann Molz and Dorina-Maria Buda

Part 1: Emotion, Work and Power

1. Jim Crow journey stories: African American driving as emotional labor

Derek H. Alderman, Kortney Williams and Ethan Bottone

2. Decolonising the ‘autonomy of affect’ in volunteer tourism encounters

Phoebe Everingham and Sara C. Motta

3. Mexican women’s emotions to resist gender stereotypes in rural tourism work

Isis Arlene Díaz-Carrión and Paola Vizcaino

Part 2: Feeling Places

4. Presence in affective heritagescapes: connecting theory to practice

Katherine Burlingame

5. Beyond ‘a trip to the seaside’: exploring emotions and family tourism experiences

Catherine Kelly

6. Dystopian dark tourism: affective experiences in Dismaland

Maria Sofia Pimentel Biscaia and Lénia Marques

7. Summers of war. Affective volunteer tourism to former war sites in Europe

Siri Driessen

8. Traveler sensoryscape experiences and the formation of destination identity

Junghye Angela Kah, Hye Jin Shin and Seong-Hoon Lee

Part 3: Symbolic Sentiments

9. Feeling opulent: adding an affective dimension to symbolic consumption of themes

Namita Roy and Ulrike Gretzel

10. Tourists’ savoring of positive emotions and place attachment formation: a conceptual paper

Nanxi Yan and Elizabeth A. Halpenny

11. Self-love emotion as a novel type of love for tourism destinations

Dimitra Margieta Lykoudi, Georgia Zouni and Markos Marios Tsogas

Part 4: Affective Epistemologies

12. The ‘MeBox’ method and the emotional effects of chronic illness on travel

Uditha Ramanayake, Cheryl Cockburn-Wootten and Alison J. McIntosh

13. Attuning to the affective in literary tourism: Emotional states in Aberystwyth, Mon Amour.

Jon Anderson and Kieron Smith

14. Affective entanglements with travelling mittens

Outi Kugapi and Emily Höckert

Conclusion

Affective Railway Journeys in an Age of Extremes

Matilde Córdoba Azcárate

Biography

Dorina-Maria Buda conducts interdisciplinary research focusing on the interconnections between tourist spaces, people and emotions in times and places of socio-political conflicts. She conducts ethnographic work in such places of on-going turmoil like Jordan, Israel and Palestine. She is the author of Affective Tourism: Dark Routes in Conflict.

Jennie Germann Molz teaches courses on emotion, social theory, travel and tourism, and family life at the College of the Holy Cross. She is the author of The World is Our Classroom: Extreme Parenting and the Rise of Worldschooling and Travel Connections: Tourism, Technology and Togetherness in a Mobile World.