This volume considers world-making as the intersection of the fan pilgrimage experience and the responses of destinations. It examines the emerging field of popular culture tourism and its connection with fan studies and placemaking. It integrates theory and practice and provides evidence-based recommendations for popular culture destinations.
This book explores the relationship between tourism and high-magnitude storm events. It considers the measures available to manage tourism after major storms and floods, examines the means to mitigate the potential impacts of these disasters on tourism, and provides insights into the ethical issues facing tourism after a major flood or storm.
Taking a critical approach to the air passenger experience, this book considers the representations, embodied practices and materialities of air travel. It brings the journey to the fore as a complex and meaningful experience, filling a gap in the social science research of tourist behaviour, traditionally focused on the destination experience.
The term 'contents tourism' has been defined as 'travel behaviour motivated fully or partially by narratives, characters, locations, and other creative elements of popular culture...'. This is the first book to apply the concept of contents tourism in a global context and to establish an interdisciplinary framework for contents tourism research.
This book focuses on perspectives from and on the global south, providing fresh data and analyses on languages in African, Caribbean, Middle-Eastern and Asian tourism contexts. It provides a critical perspective on tourism in postcolonial and neocolonial settings, explored through in-depth case studies.
This book examines teachers and their psychology from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives. It covers well-established areas of teacher psychology plus areas that have only recently begun to be explored. The 19 chapters in this volume make a significant contribution to the emerging field of language teacher psychology.
This book examines both specific issues and more general problems stemming from the interaction of religion, travel and tourism with hospitality and culture, as well as the implications for site management and interpretation. It explores pilgrimage along with issues and conflicts arising from the collision of religion, politics and tourism.
In this compelling collection of essays contributors critically examine Creative Writing in American Higher Education. Considering Creative Writing teaching, learning and knowledge, the book recognizes historical strengths and weaknesses. Most of all it explores the possibilities for the future of Creative Writing as an academic subject in America.
This book provides an overview of current theory, research and practice in the field of language anxiety and brings together a range of perspectives on this psychological construct in a single volume. Chapters show that language anxiety can be viewed as a complex and dynamic construct and can be researched using different methods and frameworks.
This book is the first to explore Asian gendered identities and tourism from both Asian and Western perspectives. The authors reflect on the role of tourism in producing, reiterating and resisting existing gendered structures of power in Asia and on their own experiences of understanding and negotiating Western and Asian identities and practices.