Affect and Emotion in Tourism

<p>Bringing affect and emotion to the forefront of tourism studies this book presents a new generation of scholars who consolidate emerging affective approaches and establish a route for scholarship that examines the roles of emotion and affect in tourism.</p><p>Attuning to affect and emotion this book steers the affective turn to encompass touring bodies and tourism places. Engaging the concept of affect as a constitutive element of social life often leaves academics grasping for terminology to describe something that is by its very nature beyond words. For this reason as evident in the four interconnected sections of this volume studying affect poses a significant and fruitful challenge to the status-quo of social scientific method and analysis. From African-American emotional labour while travelling to visiting Banksy's Dismaland park to affective heritagescapes self-love and travelling mittens and across socio-spatial theories of emotions decolonial feminist theory and atmospheric politics this book demonstrates the epistemic and empirical richness of affective tourism.</p><p>Along with the contributors to this volume the editors make a case for thinking about emotions and affects through collective and individual practices as interrelated shaping tourism encounters <i>in </i>and <i>with </i>places. That is to break it down as <i>doing </i>and as <i>shared </i>between bodies and places through the <i>doing</i>. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of <i>Tourism Geographies</i>.</p>