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This book is a response to the burgeoning interest in cultural tourism and the associated need for a coherently theorized approach for understanding the practices and processes that such an interest creates. This groundbreaking volume provides a theoretical and empirical account of what it means to be a cultural tourist and a creative, affective user of heritage itself. It is a fundamental and influential contribution to research in this field - it will be significant value to students, academics and researchers interested in this broad topic area.
List of contents
Introduction: Moments, Instances, Experiences Part 1: The Moment in Theory 1. Meaning, Encounter and Performativity: Threads and Moments of Spacetimes in Doing Tourism 2. The Somatic and the Aesthetic: Embodied Heritage Experiences of Luang Prabang, Laos Part 2: The Moment Performed 3. Finding Dracula in Transylvania 4. Touring Heritage, Performing Home: Cultural Encounters in Singapore 5. The Commemoration of Slavery Heritage: Performance, Tourism and Resistance 6. Engagement and Performance: Created Identities in Steampunk, Cosplay and Re-Enactment 7. Publics Versus Professionals: Agency and Engagement with ‘Robin Hood’ and the ‘Pilgrim Fathers’ in Nottinghamshire Part 3: Moments and Others 8. Shades of the Caliphate: The Cultural Moment in Southern Spain 9. ‘You No Longer Need to Imagine’: Bus Touring Through South Central Los Angeles Gangland 10. The Cultural ‘Work’ of Tourism 11. The Numen Impulse in Heritage Tourism Part 4: The Moment Transformed 12. The Truth of the Crowds: Social Media and the Heritage Experience 13. The Lingering Moment
About the author
Laurajane Smith is a future fellow at the Australian National University, having moved back to Australia in 2010 after over nine years at the University of York, UK.
Emma Waterton lectures in heritage and tourism at the University of Western Sydney, Australia.
Steve Watson is a Principal Lecturer at York St John University, UK, where he teaches courses on consumer culture, tourism and heritage.
