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