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Informationen zum Autor C. Michael Hall is Professor of Marketing, University of Canterbury, New Zealand; Docent in Geography, Oulu University; Visiting Professor, Linneaus University; and Senior Research Fellow, University of Johannesburg. Author and editor of over 80 books, he has published widely on tourism, sustainability, governance and food issues. Yael Ram is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Tourism Studies, Ashkelon Academic College, Israel. Noam Shoval is Professor of Geography at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Zusammenfassung This handbook brings together a number of the main themes on the study of walking from different disciplines and literatures into a single volume that can be accessed from across the social sciences. The international and cross-disciplinary nature of the contributions of the book are expected to be of interest to numerous academic fields. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents List of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors Preface and Acknowledgements 1 Introduction: Walking – More than pedestrian – C. Michael Hall, Yael Ram & Noam Shoval Culture, Society and Historical Context 2 Walking in the capitalist city: On the socio-economic origins of walkable urbanism - Anja Hälg Bieri 3 Radical twenty-first century walkers and the Romantic qualities of leisure walking – Phil Smith 4 Long-distance walking in Films: Promises of healing and redemption on the trail – Warwick Frost & Jennifer Laing 5 Walking as Pedagogy - Karein K. Goertz 6 Walking in Germany- between recreation and ideology - Dirk Reiser & Vanessa Jansen-Meinen 7 Walking and art: Perambulating pleasures – Ray Boland & Bryan Wheeler Social Practices, Perceptions and Behaviours 8 Dog walking as a leisure activity - Yoshitaka Iwasaki 9 Walking in Switzerland: urban and not so leisurely - Derek P. T. H. Christie, Emmanuel Ravalet & Vincent Kaufmann 10 Purposeful leisure mobilities: reframing the walk to school - Debbie Hopkins & Sandra Mandic 11 Spiking: The quest for challenge and meaning among hikers - Ron McCarville & Chantel Pilon 12 On the beaten track: how do narratives from organised hiking differ from "real" hiking narratives? - Outi Rantala & Seija Tuulentie 13 Comparisons between hikers and non-hikers in Iceland: attitudes, behaviours and perceptions - Anna Dóra Sæþórsdóttir, C. Michael Hall & Þorkell Stefánsson 14 Passeggiata Nuova: Social Travel in the Era of the Smartphone - Andrew Mondschein 15 Walking Online: A netnography of China’s emerging hiking communities - Alexandra Witte & Kevin Hannam Hiking Trails and Pilgrimage Routes 16 Hut-to-hut-hiking trails – a comparative analysis of popular hiking destinations - Sven Gross & Kim Werner 17 Taking you home: The Masar Ibrahim Al-Khalil in Palestine – Rami Isaac 18 The Wales Coast Path: The world's first national coastal footpath – Stephen Miles 19 Improving the experience quality of hiking trails - a setting-experience-relationship approach - Diana Müller, Heinz-Dieter Quack, Kathrin Schumacher, Franziska Thiele 20 Hikers preferences and DMO strategies: contrasting perspectives and conflicting views? - Ingeborg M. Nordbø 21 Re-signifying smuggling: cross-border walking trails as a tourist experience in the Spanish-Portuguese border - Heriberto Cairo & María Lois 22 The solo-hike - A journey of distance and closeness - Hannelene Schilar 23 Walking to care: pilgrimage as slow tourism development - Kumano-kodo pilgrimage, Wakayama, Japan – Kumi Kato 24 Hindu pilgrimage in India and walkability: theory and praxis - Subhajit Das & Manirul Islam Health, Well-being and Psychology 25 Rambling on: exploring the complexity of walking as a meaningful activity - Kirsty Finnie, Tania Wiseman & Neil Ravenscroft 26 Life-changin...
