Travel and Representation

Published by Berghahn Books 2017

Travel and Representation

Edited by: Garth Lean , Russell Staiff and Emma Waterton

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785336034

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About this book

Travel and Representation is a timely volume of essays that explores and re-examines the various convergences between literature, art, photography, television, cinema and travel. The essays do so in a way that appreciates the entanglement of representations and travel at a juncture in theoretical work that recognizes the limits of representation, things that lie outside of representation and the continuing power of representation. The emphasis is on the myriad ways travelers/scholars employ representation in their writing/analyses as they re-think the intersections between travelers, fields of representation, imagination, emotions and corporeal experiences in the past, the present and the future.

Author / Editor information

Garth Lean is a Lecturer in Geography and Urban Studies in the School of Social Sciences and Psychology at Western Sydney University.

Russell Staiff is an adjunct fellow in the critical heritage and tourism program in the School of Social Sciences at Western Sydney University and an adjunct professorial fellow in the architectural heritage and tourism program at Silpakorn University, Bangkok.

Emma Waterton is an Associate Professor based at Western Sydney University in the Institute for Culture and Society and School of Social Sciences and Psychology.

Garth Lean is a Lecturer in Geography and Urban Studies in the School of Social Sciences and Psychology at Western Sydney University.

Reviews

“This is a well-written book that disentangles, through sound interdisciplinary scholarship, the multiple workings of travel representations, their effects on people, and their limits…[It] is definitely recommended reading for graduate students and scholars with an interest in how travel, including tourism, is represented and how both travel and its representations mutually influence each other.” • JRAI (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute)

“This is a collection of beautifully written chapters coalescing around a set of mutually illuminating themes: the visual, the poetic, imagination, the post-representational, travel, and self/world making. Moving from film to the Internet, from photography to music, and from travel writing and poetry to television commercials, Travel and Representation puts this debate over representation into terms that are amenable to tourism studies and research.” • Jennie Germann Molz, College of the Holy Cross

“This is an innovative collection of chapters that pushes the scope of research at the intersections between travel and representation in new directions by focusing on what representations ‘do’ in constructing the sensory and emotional experiences of travelers.” • Duncan Light, Bournemouth University

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	x
Introduction. Travel and Representation: Past, Present, Future Russell Staiff, Emma Waterton and Garth Lean Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 Repeating Visions: Hitchcock’s Vertigo and San Francisco Gemma Blackwood Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
2 Curious Images from Northwest China: Ethics and Poetics in Carolyn Drake’s Travel Photography Darren Byler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
3 Astronauts and Avatars: Travels between the Physical, the Virtual and the Imagined Denise Doyle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	66
4 Finitude before Finitude: The Case of Rousseau-Bougainville-Diderot Benoît Dillet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
5 Bernard Smith and Imagining the Pacific: The Art/Poetics of ‘Discovery’ and the Art/Poetics of Writing about Early European Travellers in the South Pacific Russell Staiff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	102
6 Searching for the Spirit of Bluegrass Cynthia J. Miller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	118
7 The Transient Gaze: Perambulist Somnambulist (Sensual, Sonic and Aural Photographic Narratives) Peter Day Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
8 Snapshot Photography and a Gendered Poetics of the Beach, 1900s–1920s Nicolá Goc Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	158
9 Mediating Mythic Origins and Lived Localities: Connecting and Distancing on Roots/Homeland Tours Jillian L. Powers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
10 Road Trip through the Heartland: Television Advertisements and the Australian Domestic Traveller Christopher Drew Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 250
Keywords: Heritage Studies; Travel and Tourism; Cultural Studies (General); Literary Studies

eBook

Published: July 1, 2017
ISBN: 9781785336034