Tourism and Everyday Life in the Contemporary City (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Frisch, Thomas; Stors, Natalie; Stoltenberg, Luise; Sommer, Christoph

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the phenomena of the urban every day and new urban tourism. It provides a systematic framework and draws on a mix of theoretical and empirical work to look at the increasing intermingling of 'tourists' and 'residents'.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429016493
• Artikelnr.: 56837110

Autorenporträt

Thomas Frisch studied sociology, English and Portuguese, and holds a Master's degree in Sociology from the University of Salzburg. In his PhD thesis he is exploring digital review cultures, their communities, and their consequences for everyday practices. His major academic interests are tourism and media sociology, the sociology of evaluation, slum tourism and urban studies. Christoph Sommer is completing his PhD in geography at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He co-founded the Urban Research Group New Urban Tourism at the Georg Simmel Center for Metropolitan Studies. His main areas of interest include research on urban policy, governance, the anthropology of policy, tourism and municipalism. Luise Stoltenberg is completing her PhD in sociology at Universität Hamburg. For her dissertation project, she is studying the online hospitality networks of Couchsurfing and Airbnb with regard to the notion of dwelling. Her research interests include the sociology of everyday life and of digital cultures, as well as mobility and tourism studies. Natalie Stors is a PhD candidate and research associate at the Department of Leisure and Tourism Geography at Trier University, Germany. In her PhD project she is investigating the motivations for participating in short-term rental practices via Airbnb and the implications of sharing platforms for the construction of tourism space. Her research is dedicated to urban tourism and the sharing economy.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Tourism and Everyday Life in the Contemporary City: An Introduction 2.
Ordinary Tourism and Extraordinary Everyday Life: Rethinking Tourism and
Cities 3. Inhabiting the City as Tourist: Issues for Urban and Tourism
Theory 4. Tourist Valorisation and Urban Development 5. Escaping the Global
City? Gentrification, Urban Wellness Industries and the Exotic-Mundane 6.
Living with Guests: Understanding the Reasons for Hosting via Airbnb in a
Mobile Society 7. Living like a Local: Amsterdam Airbnb Users and the
Blurring of Boundaries between 'Tourists' and 'Residents' in Residential
Neighbourhoods 8. Commensality and 'Local' Food: Exploring a City with the
Help of Digital Meal-sharing Platforms 9. Places of Muße as Part of New
Urban Tourism in Paris 10. Commoning in New Tourism Areas: Co-Performing
Evening Socials at the Admiralbrücke in Berlin-Kreuzberg 11. You Are a
Tourist! Exploring Tourism Conflicts by Means of Performative Interventions