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Co-creating & Co-performing Tourism of Affects, Emotions, Feelings and Senses Dorina Buda (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) Bettina van Hoven (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) Gareth Hoskins (Aberystwyth University) “What do emotions do?” asks Sara Ahmed. Emotions, feelings, senses and affects are complex, slippery concepts. They shape, circulate between and connect bodies, they belong to individuals and to collectivities alike, they reside inside, within us and outwith when they are released outwards towards others defining the contours of different interpellated subjectivities. ‘Feelings-in-common’, collective feelings are brought about by impressions left by bodily others (Ahmed, 2004). Geographers argue that affects are intangible and ineffable yet a virtual force existing as a subsurface of latent bodily responses. Senses refer to those percepts that help tourists become aware of and interpret something through which meaning is given to the toured place. There is increasing interest in the sensuous in tourist studies (Crouch & Desforges, 2003), and our session seeks to further this interest considering connections between emotions, feelings, affects and senses in tourism. In this session, papers are invited that advance emotional, affectual and sensory geographies of tourism. Emotions, feelings, affects and senses cannot be divorced from one another and from the body, these take place within and around the body (Davidson & Milligan, 2004). 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 alone or in concert, or they can address more broadly theoretical and methodological co-creations and co-performances of emotions, feelings and senses in tourism studies.| Period | 27-Aug-2014 → 29-Aug-2014 |
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| Event type | Conference |
| Location | London, United KingdomShow on map |