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Tourism and leisure mobilities : politics, work, and play / edited by Jillian Rickly, Kevin Hannam, and Mary Mostafanezhad.

Contributor(s): Series: Contemporary geographies of leisure, tourism and mobilityPublication details: New York Routledge 2017Description: xvi, 258 pagesISBN:
  • 9781138921054 (hardback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.481 2 Q7
Contents:
Introduction : "New" tourism and leisure mobilities : what's new? / Jillian Rickly, Kevin Hannam, and Mary Mostafanezhad -- Meanders as mobile practices : Street Flowers : Urban Survivors of the Privileged Land / Mike Collier -- Entrainment : Human-equine leisure mobilities / Paula Danby and Kevin Hannam -- Leisure, bicycle mobilities, and cities / Jonas Larsen -- Gendered automobilities : Female Pakistani migrants driving in Saudi Arabia / Kevin Hannam -- What is a "dirtbag"? : Reconsidering tourist typologies and leisure mobilities through rock climbing subcultures / Jillian Rickly -- Exploring tourism employment in the Perhentian Islands : Mobilities of home and away / Jacqueline Salmond -- The "Nextpat" : Towards an understanding of contemporary expatriate subjectivities / Roger Norum -- Should I stay or should I go? : Labour and lifestyle mobilities of Bulgarian migrants to the UK / Gergina Pavlova-Hannam -- Workers on the move : Global labour sourcing in the cruise industry / William Terry -- Confronting economic precariousness through international retirement : Japan's old-age "economic refugees" and Germany's "exported grannies" / Meghann Ormond and Mika Toyota -- Home exchanging : A shift in the tourism marketplace / Antonio Paolo Russo and Alan Quaglieri Domínguez -- Travelling beauty : Diasporic development and transient service encounters at the salon / Lauren Wagner -- Orphanage Tourism and Development in Cambodia: A Mobilities Approach / Tess Guiney -- Mobility for all through English-language voluntourism / Cori Jakubiak -- When pesos come at the expense of tourism proximity and moorings / Matilde Córdoba Azcárate -- Making tracks in pursuit of the wild : Mobilising nature and tourism on a (com)modified African Savannah / William O'Brien and Wairimu Njambi -- Decolonising tourism mobilities? : Planning research within a First Nations community in Northern Canada / Bryan S. . Grimwood, Lauren J. King, Allison P. Holmes, and the Lutsel K'e Dene First Nation -- Afterword / Noel Salazar.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : "New" tourism and leisure mobilities : what's new? / Jillian Rickly, Kevin Hannam, and Mary Mostafanezhad -- Meanders as mobile practices : Street Flowers : Urban Survivors of the Privileged Land / Mike Collier -- Entrainment : Human-equine leisure mobilities / Paula Danby and Kevin Hannam -- Leisure, bicycle mobilities, and cities / Jonas Larsen -- Gendered automobilities : Female Pakistani migrants driving in Saudi Arabia / Kevin Hannam -- What is a "dirtbag"? : Reconsidering tourist typologies and leisure mobilities through rock climbing subcultures / Jillian Rickly -- Exploring tourism employment in the Perhentian Islands : Mobilities of home and away / Jacqueline Salmond -- The "Nextpat" : Towards an understanding of contemporary expatriate subjectivities / Roger Norum -- Should I stay or should I go? : Labour and lifestyle mobilities of Bulgarian migrants to the UK / Gergina Pavlova-Hannam -- Workers on the move : Global labour sourcing in the cruise industry / William Terry -- Confronting economic precariousness through international retirement : Japan's old-age "economic refugees" and Germany's "exported grannies" / Meghann Ormond and Mika Toyota -- Home exchanging : A shift in the tourism marketplace / Antonio Paolo Russo and Alan Quaglieri Domínguez -- Travelling beauty : Diasporic development and transient service encounters at the salon / Lauren Wagner -- Orphanage Tourism and Development in Cambodia: A Mobilities Approach / Tess Guiney -- Mobility for all through English-language voluntourism / Cori Jakubiak -- When pesos come at the expense of tourism proximity and moorings / Matilde Córdoba Azcárate -- Making tracks in pursuit of the wild : Mobilising nature and tourism on a (com)modified African Savannah / William O'Brien and Wairimu Njambi -- Decolonising tourism mobilities? : Planning research within a First Nations community in Northern Canada / Bryan S. . Grimwood, Lauren J. King, Allison P. Holmes, and the Lutsel K'e Dene First Nation -- Afterword / Noel Salazar.

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