Disruptive Tourism and its Untidy Guests envisions alternative arrangements of social life by welcoming the untidy guest to discourses, theories and philosophies of tourism. Written by an author collective with backgrounds in philosophy, sociology, tourism, hospitality and development studies, the book transfers the focus of tourism theories away from managing sustainability and toward alternative – disruptive – ontologies and epistemologies for future tourist hospitalities and mobilities. The co-authors mess around with tourism studies by invoking the radical potentialities of untidiness. Tourism and the host-guest relations it entails are explored by means of deliberately untidy concepts: camping, parasites, silence, unlearning and serendipities. Instead of trying to manage or tidy up tourist situations and encounters, Disruptive Tourism and its Untidy Guests embraces the messiness of human relations and argues for more creative, embodied and ethical ontologies of tourism, hospitality and mobility.
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| About the Authors |
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1 Introduction: Alternative Tourism Ontologies |
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3 Paradise with/out Parasites |
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4 Towards Silent Communities |
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5 Unlearning through Hospitality |
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6 Messing around with Serendipities |
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7 Conclusion: Prepositions and Other Stories |
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Soile Veijola is Professor of Cultural Studies of Tourism at MTI, University of Lapland, Finland. Jennie Germann Molz is Associate Professor of Sociology at College of the Holy Cross, USA. Olli Pyyhtinen is Professor of Sociology at the University of Tampere and Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Turku, Finland. Emily Höckert is a Researcher at MTI, University of Lapland, Finland, and the University of Helsinki, Finland. Alexander Grit is Research Lecturer at Stenden University, The Netherlands and Senior Research Fellow at the Managing Science, Technology and Knowledge Research Group, University of Leicester, UK.
