ISBN:
9781138656215
Language:
English
Pages:
XII, 182 Seiten
Edition:
First published
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in pilgrimage, religious travel and tourism 6
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in pilgrimage, religious travel, and tourism
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Howard, Christopher A. Mobile lifeworlds
DDC:
306.4/819095496
Keywords:
Tourism Social aspects
;
Pilgrims and pilgrimages
;
Sacred space
;
Public opinion
;
Mass media Social aspects
;
Mobile communication systems Social aspects
;
Secularism Social aspects
;
Himalaya Mountains Religious life and customs
;
Himalaya Mountains Foreign public opinion, Western
;
Himalaya Mountains Description and travel
;
Himalaja
;
Tourismus
;
Wallfahrt
;
Westliche Welt
;
Himalaja
;
Himalaja
;
Tourismus
;
Pilgerschaft
;
Heiligtum
;
Mobile Telekommunikation
;
Öffentliche Meinung
Abstract:
"Mobile Lifeworlds illustrates how the imaginaries and ideals of Western travellers, especially those of untouched nature and spiritual enlightenment, are consistent with media representations of the Himalayan region, romanticism and modernity at large. Blending tourism and pilgrimage, travel across Nepal, Tibet, Bhutan, and Northern India is often inspired and oriented by a search for authenticity, adventure and Otherness. Such valued ideals are shown, however, to be contested by the very forces and configurations that enable global mobility. The role ubiquitous media and mobile technologies now play in framing travel experiences are explored, revealing a situation in which actors are neither here nor there, but increasingly are 'inter-placed' across planetary landscapes. Beyond institutionalised religious contexts and the visiting of sacred sites, the author shows how a secular religiosity manifests in practical, bodily encounters with foreign environments. This book is unique in that it draws on a dynamic and innovative set of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives, especially phenomenology, the mobilities paradigm and philosophical anthropology. The volume breaks fresh ground in pilgrimage, tourism and travel studies by unfolding the complex relationships between the virtual, imaginary and corporeal dynamics of contemporary mobile lifeworlds"--From publisher's website
Abstract:
Questions of travel : meanings, experiences and change in tourism and pilgrimage -- Magic mountains : the Himalayas as a symbolic landscape -- Methodological wayfinding : phenomenology, mobile ethnography and serendipity -- Lost horizons : on the interplay of virtual, imaginary and corporeal mobilities -- To the village where no roads go : searching for authentic nature-culture in the Himalayas -- Travailing : boundary crossing and bodily disruption in Nepal and India -- Being where? : mobile inter-placing in the age of digital ge-stell
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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