Travel and Transformation

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Contents: Prelude: flensed, Janice Baker Exploring travel and transformation, Garth Lean, Russell Staiff and Emma Waterton. Part I Transformation Speculations: Lifestyle travel, tropophila and identity transformation, Jon Anderson and Kathryn Erskine Travel as critique and transgression in Michel Foucault and Colin Thubron, Drew Ninnis Doing good: transforming the self by transforming the world, Fiona Allon and Maria Koleth. Part II Transformation, Representation, Story: Saddos and saddhus: transcendence as breakdown in Geoff Dyer's Jeff in Venice/Death in Varanasi, Bianca Leggett 'Home is lovelier than the way home': travels and transformations in Mahmoud Darwish's poetry, Rehnuma Sazzad The nomad, the refugee, the developer and the migrant: four stories of inner-city travellers in Johannesburg, South Africa, Shannon Walsh. Part III Transformation in Motion: Temporality, technologies and techniques of the self: long-distance walking as secular pilgrimage, Leila Dawney Memories of forced transformation through travel in 1948, Lynda Mannik Young backpackers and the rite of passage of travel: examining the transformative effects of liminality, Amie Matthews Notes on strategies for leaving and arriving home, Sarah Rodigari. Part IV Marking Transformation: Facebook and facelifts: communities of cosmetic surgery tourists, Meredith Jones, David Bell, Ruth Holliday, Elspeth Probyn and Jacqueline Sanchez Taylor Material transformations: place, process and the capacity of tourist souvenirs in the home, Kimberley Peters. Conclusions: Lasting impressions, Garth Lean, Russell Staiff and Emma Waterton. Index.

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