Travel and transformation [Texte imprimé] /
edited by Garth Lean, Russell Staiff and Emma Waterton
- Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington : Ashgate, 2014
- 1 vol. (XIII-236 p.) : ill., couv. ill. ; 24 cm
- Current developments in the geographies of leisure and tourism .
- Current developments in the geographies of leisure and tourism (Ashgate, Farnham) .
Notes bibliogr.
Exploring travel and transformation / Garth Lean, Russell Staiff and Emma Waterton -- Lifestyle travel, tropophilia and identity transformation / Jon Anderson and Kathyrn Erskine -- Travel as critique and transgression in Michel Foucault and Colin Thubron / Drew Ninnis -- Doing good : transforming the self through transforming the world / Fiona Allon and Maria Koleth -- Saddos and Saddhus : transcendence as breakdown in Geoff Dyer's Jeff in Venice/Death in Varanasi / Bianca Leggett -- "Home is lovelier than the way home" : travels and transformations in Mahmoud Darwish's poetry / Rehnuma Sazzad -- The nomad, the refugee, the developer, and the migrant : four stories of inner-city travellers in Johannesburg, South Africa / Shannon Walsh -- Temporality, technologies and techniques of the self : long-distance walking as secular pilgrimage / Leila Dawney -- Memories of forced transformation through travel in 1948 / Lynda Mannik -- Young backpackers and the rite of passage of travel : examining the transformative effects of liminality / Amie Matthews -- Notes on strategies for leaving and arriving home / Sarah Rodigari -- Facebook and facelifts : communities of cosmetic surgery tourists / Meredith Jones, David Bell, Ruth Holliday, Elspeth Probyn and Jacqueline Sanchez Taylor -- Material transformations : place, process and the capacity of tourist souvenirs in the home / Kimberley Peters -- Lasting impressions / Garth Lean, Russell Staiff and Emma Waterton.