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171Why and How Does the Pacing of Mobilities Matter?In Vered Amit & Noel B. Salazar (eds.), Pacing Mobilities: Timing, Intensity, Tempo and Duration of Human Movements, Berghahn. 2020.This text is the introduction to V. Amit & N. B. Salazar, Pacing Mobilities. Timing, Intensity, Tempo & Duration of Human Movements, New York/Oxford, Berghahn, 2020, 202 p. It is also available on Berghahn publisher website.
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12Envisioning Eden: Mobilizing Imaginaries in Tourism and BeyondBerghahn Books. 2010.As tourism service standards become more homogeneous, travel destinations worldwide are conforming yet still trying to maintain, or even increase, their distinctiveness. Based on more than two years of fieldwork in Yogyakarta, Indonesia and Arusha, Tanzania, this book offers an in-depth investigation of the local-to-global dynamics of contemporary tourism. Each destination offers examples that illustrate how tour guide narratives and practices are informed by widely circulating imaginaries of th…Read more
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8Momentous Mobilities: Anthropological Musings on the Meanings of TravelBerghahn Books. 2018.Grounded in scholarly analysis and personal reflection, and drawing on a multi-sited and multi-method research design, Momentous Mobilities disentangles the meanings attached to temporary travels and stays abroad and offers empirical evidence as well as novel theoretical arguments to develop an anthropology of mobility. Both focusing specifically on how various societies and cultures imagine and value boundary-crossing mobilities “elsewhere” and drawing heavily on his own European lifeworld, the…Read more
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Pacing Mobilities: Timing, Intensity, Tempo and Duration of Human Movements (edited book)Berghahn. 2020.
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KU LeuvenRegular Faculty
Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
Areas of Specialization
Immigration |
Theories of Imagination |
Cosmopolitanism |
Anthropology |
Philosophy of Anthropology |