Re-Investing Authenticity - Tourism, Place and Emotions

This book examines contemporary performances of authenticity in travel and tourism practices. It re-thinks and re-invests in the notion of authenticity as a surplus of experiential meaning and feeling. Drawing on a range of perspectives and cases, it explores how the feeling of authenticity within places is produced.

About the author

Britta Timm Knudsen is Associate Professor at the Scandinavian Department, Aarhus University, Denmark. Her research is within culture and media studies, event culture and experience economy, cultural heritage tourism and memory culture. She has recently published books and articles on realism, witnessing on TV, nostalgia, and thanatourism (http: //begivenhedskultur.dk).
Anne Marit Waade is Associate Professor at the Institute of Information and Media Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark. Her research is within media aesthetics, visual culture, mediated tourism and market communications, and she has recently published articles on crime fiction tourism (www.krimiforsk.aau.dk) and travel series (www.tvunderholdning.au.dk) and a book in Danish on media and tourism (Jensen & Waade, 2009).

Summary

This book examines contemporary performances of authenticity in travel and tourism practices. It re-thinks and re-invests in the notion of authenticity as a surplus of experiential meaning and feeling. Drawing on a range of perspectives and cases, it explores how the feeling of authenticity within places is produced.

Product details

• Authors: Britta Timm Knudsen
• Assisted by: Britta Timm Knudsen (Editor), Mike Robinson (Editor), Britta Timm Knudsen (Editor), Anne Marit Waade (Editor)
• Publisher: Channel View Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.01.2010
• EAN: 9781845411282
• ISBN: 978-1-84541-128-2
• No. of pages: 312
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 218 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 490 g
• Series: Tourism and Cultural Change; Tourism and Cultural Change
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches