Affective Tourism - Dark Routes in Conflict

Informationen zum Autor Dorina Maria Buda is a Rosalind Franklin Fellow and Assistant Professor in the Department for Cultural Geography at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Her scholarship in geographies of tourism revolves around interconnections between affect, emotion and psychoanalysis. Adopting a critical approach, she particularly focuses on tourism in areas of socio-political turmoil. Klappentext Affective Tourism explores how and in what ways affects, emotions and drives are felt and performed in tourism encounters in places of socio-political turmoil such as Jordan, Palestine/Israel and Iraq. Zusammenfassung Affective Tourism explores how and in what ways affects, emotions and drives are felt and performed in tourism encounters in places of socio-political turmoil such as Jordan, Palestine/Israel and Iraq. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part One: Packing and Setting Forth 1. Packing Light, Feeling Down Part Two: Arrival: Encounters with Affect, Emotion and Darkness in Tourism 2. Touring Affect 3. ‘Psychoanalysing’ Tourism Part Three: Destinations: Affective Routes in ‘Middle Eastern’ Tourism 4. Routes in Dark Tourism 5. Locating the ‘Middle East’ 6. Around Jordan – Switzerland of the Middle East 7. Crossing into the West Bank 8. ‘Between a rock and a hard place’ – Brief detour to Iraq Part Four: Re-tour 9. Conclusions

Product details

• Authors: Dorina Maria Buda, Buda Dorina Maria
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.05.2015
• EAN: 9781138822467
• ISBN: 978-1-138-82246-7
• No. of pages: 198
• Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Travel > Travel guides > World, Arctic, Antarctic; PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints, Psychological theory & schools of thought