Travel and Transformation

Bringing together geographers, sociologists, cultural researchers, philosophers, anthropologists, visual researchers, literary scholars and heritage researchers, this volume explores what it means to transform through travel in a modern, mobile world. In doing so, it draws upon a wide variety of traveller perspectives - including tourists, backpackers, lifestyle travellers, migrants, refugees, nomads, walkers, writers, poets, virtual travellers and cosmetic surgery patients - to unpack a cultural phenomenon that has captured the imagination since the very first works of Western literature.

chapterp1 Prelude Flensed, Janice Baker; Chapter 1 Exploring Travel and Transformation, Garth Lean, Russell Staiff, Emma Waterton; Part 1 Transformation Speculations; Chapter 2 Lifestyle Travel, Tropophila and Identity Transformation, Jon Anderson, Kathryn Erskine; Chapter 3 Travel as Critique and Transgression in Michel Foucault and Colin Thubron, Drew Ninnis; Chapter 4 Doing Good: Transforming the Self by Transforming the World, Fiona Allon, Maria Koleth; Part 2 Transformation, Representation, Story; Chapter 5 Saddos and Saddhus: Transcendence as Breakdown in Geoff Dyer's, Bianca Leggett; Chapter 6 'Home is Lovelier than the Way Home': Travels and Transformations in Mahmoud Darwish's Poetry, Rehnuma Sazzad; Chapter 7 The Nomad, the Refugee, the Developer and the Migrant: Four Stories of Inner-City Travellers in Johannesburg, South Africa, Shannon Walsh; Part 3 Transformation in Motion; Chapter 8 Temporality, Technologies and Techniques of the Self: Long-Distance Walking as Secular Pilgrimage, Leila Dawney; Chapter 9 Memories of Forced Transformation through Travel in 1948, Lynda Mannik; Chapter 10 Young Backpackers and the Rite of Passage of Travel: Examining the Transformative Effects of Liminality, Amie Matthews; Chapter 11 Notes on Strategies for Leaving and Arriving Home, Sarah Rodigari; Part 4 Marking Transformation; Chapter 12 Facebook and Facelifts: Communities of Cosmetic Surgery Tourists, Meredith Jones, David Bell, Ruth Holliday, Elspeth Probyn, Jacqueline Sanchez Taylor; Chapter 13 Material Transformations: Place, Process and the Capacity of Tourist Souvenirs in the Home, Kimberley Peters; Part 5 Conclusions; Chapter 14 Lasting Impressions, Garth Lean, Russell Staiff, Emma Waterton;