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Researchers as Travellers and Storytellers: Culture, Research and Identity book cover

1st Edition

Researchers as Travellers and Storytellers Culture, Research and Identity

Edited By Lauren Dyll, Keyan G. Tomaselli Copyright 2026
246 Pages
by Routledge

246 Pages
by Routledge
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Researchers are, in many ways, travellers and storytellers whose journeys across landscapes, disciplines, and cultures offer profound opportunities for discovery, reflection, and connection within contemporary cultural studies. Drawing from interdisciplinary perspectives including literary studies, media studies, and cultural geography, this collection demonstrates how travel becomes a site of... Read more

Introduction: researchers as travellers and storytellers

Lauren Dyll and Keyan G Tomaselli

 

Part I: Travelling as Research Journeys

 

1. Hitting the hot spots: literary tourism as a research field with particular reference to KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Lindy Stiebel

 

2. Crossing the road in Macao

Christopher Kelen

 

3. Colliding human–animal trajectories (road kill!) on a Tasmanian journey

Claudia Bell

 

4. Reading running

Julie Cairnie

 

Part II: Literary, storytelling, self-imaging

 

5. ‘We want to see something different (but not too different)’: spatial politics and the Pink Loerie Mardi Gras in Knysna

Theo Sonnekus

 

6. The researcher’s guide to Ethiopia: what travel guides don’t tell you

Keyan G. Tomaselli

 

7. ‘Back to my roots’: artifak and festivals in Vanuatu, Southwest Pacific

Hugo Deblock

 

8. Live Aid/8: perpetuating the superiority myth

Julie Grant

 

9. Digital storytelling Antarctica

Juan Francisco Salazar and Elias Barticevic

 

10. Conflicting images of the Great Wall in cultural heritage tourism

Jieyun Feng, Yanan Li and Peng Wu

 

11. Shanghai cosmopolis: negotiating the branded City

Duncan Harte

 

12. Memory, multiplicity, and participatory curation at the District Six Museum, Cape Town

Amie Soudien

 

Biography

Lauren Dyll is a National Research Foundation-rated scholar and Associate Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal with research interests in cultural heritage and tourism, participation, identity and knowledge production. She is co-chair of the Participatory Communication Research Section of the International Association for Media and Communication Research, and is co-editor of the journal, Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies. 

Keyan G Tomaselli is Distinguished Professor, Humanities, University of Johannesburg, and founder and co-editor of Critical Arts.  His applied research on cultural tourism from the perspectives of both subjects and tourists is widely published and impactful of actual ventures across South Africa.

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