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Authenticity as Stories of the Self: Implications for Critical Tourism StudiesbySolène PrinceTravelling is often considered as a way to find existential authenticity. Tourists are here preoccupied with the existential quest of finding their true selves during their emersion in a context where they can feel a sense of novelty. However, many tourism scholars also see authenticity as an intersubjective phenomenon, coming from the fusion of landscapes, artefacts, memories and int...
Exploring Literary Narratives as Place-making Agency: Acknowledging Under-represented Voices in Carribean Tourism DevelopmentbyKelley A. McClinchey Sa key tan parlay lute1(Who hear tell the others)Critical scholars adopt postcolonial frameworks to problematize the cultural, environmental and political encounters of tourism prioritizing voices from the south to counteract a ‘western’ privileged context (Caton & Santos, 2009; E...
Art inside out's residency "other choreographies, new spaces" based on the concept of critical tourismbyPetra Johansson & Cecilia Gelin We are all tourists. Our desire to escape daily life and reality leads us to seek out unfamiliar places and situations. Issues such as threats to the climate, immigration and the pandemic, are now affecting the way we move and travel. New contexts and overlooked stories and details create other relationsh...