{"id":6863,"date":"2018-09-26T08:00:46","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T08:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/?p=6863"},"modified":"2025-04-29T14:04:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T14:04:54","slug":"happy-world-tourism-day2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/happy-world-tourism-day2018","title":{"rendered":"Happy World Tourism Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

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September 27th is World Tourism Day<\/a> and this year’s theme is\u00a0Tourism and the Digital Transformation. The purpose of WTD is to raise awareness of the role of tourism within the international community and a unique opportunity to explore potential contribution of digital technologies to sustainable tourism development. For more information please visit wtd.unwto.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Berghahn is happy to present a selection of relevant titles and offer a limited time 25% discount<\/strong> on all our Travel and Tourism<\/a> books. Simply enter discount code WTD18<\/strong> at checkout, valid through October 27th, 2018.<\/p>\n

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For a limited time, we’re pleased to offer FREE access to select journal articles in honor of World Tourism Day. See below for details.<\/h3>\n
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FOOTPRINTS IN PARADISE<\/a>
\nEcotourism, Local Knowledge, and Nature Therapies in Okinawa
\nAndrea E. Murray<\/p>\n

Volume 40, New Directions in Anthropology<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201c\u2026 a wonderful ethnographic work\u2026As readers navigate through shared narratives and collective histories, they cannot help but feel they are immersed within the Okinawan culture. Libraries with anthropological collections focusing on Pacific Island studies (with a primary focus on Japan) or cultural heritage tourism should have a copy of this work. Highly recommended.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Choice<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0“We Want Them to Know Nature<\/a><\/p>\n

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TOURISM AND INFORMAL ENCOUNTERS IN CUBA<\/a>
\nValerio Simoni
\nForeword by Nelson Graburn<\/p>\n

Volume 38, New Directions in Anthropology<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cWhile his work touches on themes such as migration, north\/south divide, transnationalism, and the nature of socializing and social boundaries, this is primarily an anthropological study of relationships generated through tourism, featuring pithy ethnographic vignettes.<\/em>\u00a0Tourism and Informal Encounters in Cuba\u00a0offers readers a multilayered analysis of connecting across boundaries, as visitors and hosts negotiate power, desire, fear, and hope.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Anthropos<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction<\/strong>: Relating through Tourism<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"TRAVEL AND REPRESENTATION<\/a>
\nEdited by Garth Lean, Russell Staiff, and Emma Waterton<\/p>\n

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Travel and Representation<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction\u2028:<\/strong>\u00a0Travel and Representation: Past, Present, Future<\/a><\/p>\n

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THE ROMANCE OF CROSSING BORDERS<\/a>
\nStudying and Volunteering Abroad
\nEdited by Neriko Doerr and Hannah Ta\u00efeb<\/p>\n

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What draws people to study abroad or volunteer in far-off communities? Often the answer is romance \u2013 the romance of landscapes, people, languages, the very sense of border-crossing \u2013 and longing for liberation, attraction to the unknown, yearning to make a difference. This volume explores the complicated and often fraught desires to study and volunteer abroad. In doing so, the book sheds light on how affect is managed by educators and mobilized by students and volunteers themselves, and how these structures of feeling relate to broader social and economic forces.<\/p>\n

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\"MomentousMOMENTOUS MOBILITIES<\/a>
\nAnthropological Musings on the Meanings of Travel
\nNoel B. Salazar<\/p>\n

Volume 4, Worlds in Motion<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Both focusing specifically on how various societies and cultures imagine and value boundary-crossing mobilities \u201celsewhere\u201d and drawing heavily on his own European lifeworld, the author examines momentous travels abroad in the context of education, work, and spiritual quests and the search for a better quality of life.<\/p>\n

Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0Mapping Mobility<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"THE GOOD HOLIDAY<\/a>
\nDevelopment, Tourism and the Politics of Benevolence in Mozambique
\nJo\u00e3o Afonso Baptista<\/p>\n

Volume 30, EASA Series<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Drawing on ethnographic research in the village of Canhane, which is host to the first community tourism project in Mozambique, The Good Holiday<\/em> explores the confluence of two powerful industries: tourism and development, and explains when, how and why tourism becomes development and development, tourism. The volume further explores the social and material consequences of this merging, presenting the confluence of tourism and development as a major vehicle for the exercise of ethics, and non-state governance in contemporary life.<\/p>\n

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TOURISM IMAGINARIES<\/a>
\nAnthropological Approaches
\nEdited by Noel B. Salazar and Nelson H. H. Graburn
\nAfterword by Naomi Leite<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis book establishes \u2018imaginaries\u2019 as part of the conceptual apparatus of the anthropology of tourism [and] contributes to social anthropology more generally by exploring how tourism imaginaries intersect with broader cultural and ideological structures\u2026 The wealth of its ethnography, combined with its innovative conceptual approaches, exemplifies the strengths anthropology is bringing to interdisciplinary tourism studies.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction<\/strong>: Toward an Anthropology of Tourism Imaginaries<\/a><\/p>\n

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JAPANESE TOURISM<\/a>
\nSpaces, Places and Structures
\nCarolin Funck and Malcolm Cooper<\/p>\n

Volume 5, Asia-Pacific Studies: Past and Present\u00a0<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe volume’s scope suggests how daunting the editors’ task was, and they do a credible job, addressing issues ranging from governmental policy to heritage tourism to the possibilities of virtual tourism in the 21st century. This is a good introduction to the subject\u2026 what the authors do accomplish is significant, particularly for comparative tourism studies\u2026Highly recommended.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Choice<\/strong><\/p>\n

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DANCING CULTURES<\/a>
\nGlobalization, Tourism and Identity in the Anthropology of Dance
\nEdited by H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Neveu Kringelbach and Jonathan Skinner<\/p>\n

Volume 4, Dance and Performance Studies<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cWhile globalization and tourism are included in the discussion of dance, the strength of the content is in understanding the composition of dance and the role dance plays in shaping cultures.<\/em>\u201d \u00b7 Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Introduction<\/strong>: The Movement of Dancing Cultures<\/a><\/p>\n

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TOURISM, MAGIC AND MODERNITY<\/a>
\nCultivating the Human Garden
\nDavid Picard
\nForeword by Nelson Graburn<\/p>\n

Volume 32, New Directions in Anthropology<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe book demonstrates that the ethnographic genre can be effective in advancing a deeper, more thickly described account of tourism at the same time as tourism offers an advantageous lens through which to understand the cultural politics of globalization generally\u2026Its greatest contribution would seem to be a new way of theorizing the complex conjunctions of nature and culture that so often orientalize host societies in tourism imaginaries.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Annals of Tourism Research<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Access Related Articles until October 10!<\/em><\/h3>\n

Journeys<\/a><\/strong>
\nThe International Journal of Travel & Travel Writing<\/a><\/p>\n

Journeys<\/em> is an interdisciplinary journal that explores travel as a practice and travel writing as a genre, reflecting the rich diversity of travel and journeys as social and cultural practices as well as their significance as metaphorical processes.<\/p>\n

The Corpus of London:\u00a0(Dis)covering the Victorian City<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by\u00a0David W. Chapman<\/p>\n

\u201cWe Are a Traveling People\u201d:\u00a0Tourism, Travel Journalism, and the Construction of a Modern National Identity in Sweden<\/em><\/strong><\/a> by\u00a0Emilia Ljungberg<\/p>\n

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Anthropology in Action<\/strong><\/a>
\nJournal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice<\/a><\/p>\n

Anthropology in Action<\/em> is a peer-reviewed journal publishing articles, commentaries, research reports, and book reviews in applied anthropology.<\/p>\n

Wine Tourism in the Temecula Valley:\u00a0Neoliberal Development Policies and Their Contradictions<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by\u00a0Kevin A. Yelvington,\u00a0Jason L. Simms\u00a0and\u00a0Elizabeth Murray<\/p>\n

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