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A Special Issue in Tourism Geographies
Affective Attunements in Tourism Studies

Guest editors:
Dorina-Maria Buda  -&-  Jennie Germann Molz

Tourism Geographies Vol. 23, No. 4, August 2021 - SPECIAL ISSUE: ​​Affective Attunements (tentative)
  1. Introduction (forthcoming)
  2. Jim Crow journey stories: African American driving as emotional labor - Derek H. Alderman, Kortney Williams & Ethan Bottone - African-American travel, atmosphere, automobility, emotional labor, Jim Crow, racism, white supremacy
  3. Tourists’ savoring of positive emotions and place attachment formation: a conceptual paper - Nanxi Yan & Elizabeth A. Halpenny -  Savoring, positive emotion, place attachment, tourism experience, broaden-and-build theory, tourist behaviour, destination image
  4. The ‘MeBox’ method and the emotional effects of chronic illness on travel - Uditha Ramanayake, Cheryl Cockburn-Wootten & Alison J. McIntosh - tourism, chronic illness, hospitality, creative visual research, elderly, MeBox methodology
  5. Attuning to the affective in literary tourism: Emotional states in Aberystwyth, Mon Amour - Jon Anderson & Kieron Smith - literature, geography, affect, relationality, creative tourism
  6. Presence in affective heritagescapes: connecting theory to practice. - Katherine Burlingame - Heritagescapes, landscape phenomenology, emotion, affect, presence, visitor experience, heritage management, Birka, Vikings
  7. Decolonising the ‘autonomy of affect’ in volunteer tourism encounters - Phoebe Everingham & Sara Catherine Motta - Volunteer tourism, affect, intimacy, emotions, encounter, more-than representational, decolonial feminist theory, Ecuador, neo-colonialism, neoliberalism
  8. Self-love emotion as a novel type of love for tourism destinations - Dimitra Margieta Lykoudi, Georgia Zouni & Markos Marios Tsogas - Self-love, destination love, love, emotions, travel behaviour, demographics, repeat visitation, destination marketing
  9. Beyond ‘a trip to the seaside’: exploring emotions and family tourism experiences - Catherine Kelly - Family-tourism, memorable-tourism-experiences, family holidays, coast, existential-authenticity, interpersonal-authenticity, emotions, wellbeing, sea, quality-time
  10. Dystopian dark tourism: affective experiences in Dismaland, Tourism - OPEN ACCESS - Maria Sofia Pimentel Biscaia & Lénia Marques - Affect, dark tourism, dystopia, Dismaland, Banksy
  11. Affective entanglements with travelling mittens - OPEN ACCESS - Outi Kugapi & Emily Höckert - Handicrafts, craft tourism, affect, non-representational theory, materiality, care, relationality, autoethnography
  12. Summers of war. Affective volunteer tourism to former war sites in Europe - OPEN ACCESS - Siri Driessen - Volunteer tourism, voluntourism, affect, emotion, war sites, war tourism, place experience, dark tourism - [tourism places article]​
  13. Mexican women’s emotions to resist gender stereotypes in rural tourism work - Isis Arlene Díaz-Carrión & Paola Vizcaino -  rural tourism, tourism work, gender stereotypes, women’s emotions, Mexico, Latin America
  14. Feeling opulent: adding an affective dimension to symbolic consumption of themes - Namita Roy & Ulrike Gretzel - affect, emotion, symbolic consumption, opulence, luxury, themed experience


Original Call For Papers

Tourism researchers have begun to focus more intently on tourists’ embodied performances, affective attunements, and multisensuous encounters with people and places while on the move (Bialski, 2012; Birenboim, 2015; Buda 2015; Crouch & Desforges, 2003; Picard & Robinson, 2012; Saul & Waterton, 2018).  Our Special Issue seeks to further this interest considering connections between emotions, feelings, affects and senses in tourism. The increasing popularity of various forms of experiential tourism has brought scholars’ attention to the crucial role emotions play in tourism. These studies reveal that tourists often travel to feel certain feelings, such as the adrenaline rush produced by adventure tourism (Buckley, 2016), the sense of grief or anger that accompanies slum tourism (Holst, 2018), feelings of intimacy, hope, or guilt kindled through volunteer tourism (Mostafanezhad, 2011; Everingham, 2016; Germann Molz, 2016; Guiney, 2018), or sentiments like shock, sadness or outrage that can be catalyzed by dark tourism (Buda, d’Hauteserre & Johnston, 2014). So, too, have the emotional labor of tourism work (Heimtun, 2016; Veijola & Jokinen, 2008) and the affective dimension of doing tourism research (Pocock, 2015) sensitized tourism researchers to the significance of emotion in understanding tourism in all its complexity. These studies offer rich insights into the ambivalent desires, affective flows and emotional geographies that shape and are shaped by tourism, and provide a foundation for further advancement into this emerging theoretical and empirical terrain. This special issue invites papers that will contribute to a deeper understanding of emotional, affective and sensuous phenomena in tourism studies.

The major questions that we want to address in this Special Issue center on ways that travel and tourism are connected to the affective/affectual, emotive/emotional, and/or sensuous. Moreover, what can be gleaned from disciplines such as geography, sociology, tourism, mobility and cultural studies that may provide analytic traction or generate conceptually and empirically productive transformations in tourism studies? Following Sara Ahmed (2013), we encourage paper submissions to address the question: What do embodied emotions, feelings, senses and affects do in tourism? Submissions can examine individual emotions (fear, joy, happiness, pride, shame and the like), or senses working, consciously or at other than conscious levels, alone or in concert. They can address more broadly theoretical and methodological co-creations and co-performances of emotions, feelings and senses in tourism studies.
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Potential themes we seek to address in this special issue include:
  • The interplay between personal and public emotions in tourism contexts;
  • Affect and emotion as forces in tourism place making;
  • Emotion in tourism work;
  • Emotion as destination, i.e. traveling to feel certain feelings;
  • Mixed feelings and ambivalent desires in tourism, including negative and positive emotions such as fear, shame, discomfort, guilt, relief, or happiness;
  • Emotional, affective and pre-cognitive geographies of tourism;
  • The affective dimension of tourism research, including emotion as a way of knowing or feeling our way through research;
  • Politics of emotion in tourism places;
  • Passion and dispassion in tourism encounters;
  • The role of structure and agency in affect and emotional creations and encounters;
  • Mediated emotions at the intersection between technology and tourism;
  • Collective consciousness and everyday realities.

Guidance for Contributors: Please submit expression of interests comprising of an abstract of 250 words (excluding references), and a list of highlights with the main contribution of the paper in the form of 3 to 5 bullet points (max. 200 words), along with a short biography (including recent and significant publications) to the guest editors at [email protected], [email protected] by 28th September 2018. We will communicate decisions by 15th October 2018 or sooner. Full papers would be due to the guest editors for initial review by 15th February 2019. Tourism Geographies author guidelines and review process will apply to all manuscripts <http://www.tgjournal.com/notes-for-authors.html>.

References:
  • Ahmed, S. (2013). The Cultural Politics of Emotion. Routledge.
  • Bialski, P. (2012). Becoming Intimately Mobile. Frankfurt: Peter Lang.
  • Birenboim, A. (2016). New approaches to the study of tourist experiences in time and space, Tourism Geographies, 18:1, 9-17.
  • Buckley, R. (2016). Qualitative analysis of emotions: Fear and thrill. Frontiers in Psychology, 7:1187.
  • Buda, D. M. (2015). Affective Tourism: Dark Routes in Conflict. Routledge.
  • Buda, D., d’Hauteserre, A., & Johnston, L. (2014). Feeling and tourism studies. Annals of Tourism Research, 46, 102–114.
  • Crouch, D., & Desforges, L. (2003). The sensuous in the tourist encounter: Introduction: The power of the body in tourist studies. Tourist Studies, 3(1), 5-22.
  • Everingham, P. (2016). Hopeful possibilities in spaces of ‘the-not-yet-become’: relational encounters in volunteer tourism, Tourism Geographies, 18:5, 520-538.
  • Germann Molz, J. (2017). Learning to feel global: Exploring the emotional geographies of worldschooling. Emotion, Space and Society, 23, 16-25.
  • Germann Molz, J. (2016). Giving back, doing good, feeling global: The affective flows of family voluntourism. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 46(3), 334-360.
  • Guiney, T. (2018). ‘Hug-an-orphan vacations’: ‘Love’ and emotion in orphanage tourism. The Geographical Journal, 184(2), 125-137.
  • Heimtun, B. (2016). Emotions and affects at work on Northern Lights tours. Hospitality & Society, 6(3), 223-241.
  • Holst, T. (2018). The Affective Negotiation of Slum Tourism: City Walks in Delhi. London: Routledge.
  • Mostafanezhad, M. (2011). They really love me!: Intimacy in volunteer tourism. Annals of Tourism Research, 38(4), 1454-1473.
  • Picard, D., & Robinson, M. (Eds.) (2012). Emotion in Motion: Tourism, Affect and Transformation. Surrey: Ashgate.
  • Pocock, N. (2015). Emotional entanglements in tourism research. Annals of Tourism Research, 53, 31-45.
  • Saul, H., & Waterton, E. (Eds.) (2018). Affective Geographies of Transformation, Exploration and Adventure: Rethinking Frontiers. London & New York: Routledge.
  • Veijola, S. & Jokinen, E. (2008). Towards a hostessing society? Mobile arrangements of gender and labour, NORA, 16(3), 166-181.
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