Anthropological approaches to (im)mobility in tourism and beyond
It is fashionable nowadays to imagine the world on the move, with not only people, but also cultures, objects, capital, businesses, services, diseases, media, images, information, and ideas circulating across (and even beyond) the planet. If mobility is the new mantra to be chanted, the chorus line...
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ftunivleuven:oai:lirias.kuleuven.be:123456789/329448 2023-05-15T16:55:15+02:00 Anthropological approaches to (im)mobility in tourism and beyond Salazar, Noel B. 2011-11 https://lirias.kuleuven.be/handle/123456789/329448 en eng American Anthropological Association American Anthropological Association Abstracts vol:110 Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association edition:110 location:Montreal, Canada date:16-20 November 2011 https://lirias.kuleuven.be/handle/123456789/329448 anthropology mobility tourism immobility Description (Metadata) only IMa conference_paper 2011 ftunivleuven 2014-03-04T21:36:33Z It is fashionable nowadays to imagine the world on the move, with not only people, but also cultures, objects, capital, businesses, services, diseases, media, images, information, and ideas circulating across (and even beyond) the planet. If mobility is the new mantra to be chanted, the chorus line might be older than some of its proponents want to acknowledge. The founding fathers of anthropology had a keen interest in movement (e.g. Boas’ work on Inuit migration and Malinowski’s studies of the Kula ring trade) and critically engaged anthropologists were among the first to point out that not all contemporary mobilities are valued equally positively and that the very processes that produce global geographical as well as social mobility also result in immobility and exclusion. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Tanzania, I illustrate how border-crossing mobilities are imagined and discursively given meaning as a virtue or vice in the context of transnational tourism and beyond. The empirical data allow for a theoretical reflection on various uses of mobility as a concept-metaphor and on the genealogy of ideas of human mobility in anthropology, a discipline which has accused itself in the recent past of misrepresenting people as territorially, socially, and culturally bounded. I focus particularly on the added value of anthropology and its ethnographic methods in the burgeoning interdisciplinary field of mobility studies and end by assessing the analytical purchase of (im)mobility as a conceptual framework or paradigm. status: published Conference Object inuit KU Leuven: Lirias |
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It is fashionable nowadays to imagine the world on the move, with not only people, but also cultures, objects, capital, businesses, services, diseases, media, images, information, and ideas circulating across (and even beyond) the planet. If mobility is the new mantra to be chanted, the chorus line might be older than some of its proponents want to acknowledge. The founding fathers of anthropology had a keen interest in movement (e.g. Boas’ work on Inuit migration and Malinowski’s studies of the Kula ring trade) and critically engaged anthropologists were among the first to point out that not all contemporary mobilities are valued equally positively and that the very processes that produce global geographical as well as social mobility also result in immobility and exclusion. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Tanzania, I illustrate how border-crossing mobilities are imagined and discursively given meaning as a virtue or vice in the context of transnational tourism and beyond. The empirical data allow for a theoretical reflection on various uses of mobility as a concept-metaphor and on the genealogy of ideas of human mobility in anthropology, a discipline which has accused itself in the recent past of misrepresenting people as territorially, socially, and culturally bounded. I focus particularly on the added value of anthropology and its ethnographic methods in the burgeoning interdisciplinary field of mobility studies and end by assessing the analytical purchase of (im)mobility as a conceptual framework or paradigm. status: published |
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Anthropological approaches to (im)mobility in tourism and beyond |
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Anthropological approaches to (im)mobility in tourism and beyond |
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