Locating Imagination in Popular Culture

Nicky van Es is currently Lecturer at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. Next to teaching within the International Bachelor of Arts & Culture Studies, he co-founded the MA programme Tourism, Culture & Society (2018). Since 2013 he is working on research towards contemporary manifestations of literary tourism. Amongst his published research articles are "Chasing Sleuths" (Annals of Tourism Research, 2016) and "Capital Crime Cities" (European Journal of Cultural Studies, 2016), several book chapters and he is the lead editor of the edited volume Locating Imagination in Popular Culture (Routledge, 2020). Stijn Reijnders is Full Professor of "Cultural Heritage, in Particular in Relation to Tourism and Popular Culture" at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. His research focuses on the intersection of media, culture and tourism. Currently he leads two large, international research projects: Worlds of Imagination, funded by the European Research Council, and Locating Imagination funded by the Dutch Science Foundation. He has published many research papers and has co-edited The Ashgate Research Companion to Fan Cultures (2014) and Film Tourism in Asia: Evolution, Transformation and Trajectory (2017). Leonieke Boldermanis Assistant Professor, Cultural Geography and Tourism Geography and Planning at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Her research concerns the role of music, heritage and tourism in urban and regional development. She has published the monograph Contemporary Music Tourism: A Theory of Musical Topophilia (Routledge, 2020), and co-edited the collection Locating Imagination in Popular Culture: Place, Tourism and Belonging (Routledge, 2020). Abby Waysdorf is currently a postdoctoral researcher with the CADEAH project, researching how individuals and groups reappropriate and recirculate audiovisual heritage materials. She did a research master at Utrecht University in Media and Performance Studies, with a specialty in sport media and fandom, and her PhD at Erasmus University Rotterdam, where her dissertation, Placing Fandom, focused on film tourism and fan use of place. Her general research interests are audience practices and uses of media, fandom, the television industry, and how all of these things intersect.

• Introduction: Locating Imagination in Popular Culture: Place, Tourism, and BelongingStijn Reijnders, Abby Waysdorf, Leonieke Bolderman and Nicky Van EsPart 1: Theorizing The Imagination1. Imaginative Heritage: Towards A Holistic Perspective on Media, Tourism, And Governance Stijn Reijnders2. The Open-Ended Ruin: Imaginative Authenticity as a Driver of Alternative Tourism 34André Jansson3. No Place Like Birmingham? The Politics of Immobility, Invisibility, and Resentment David Morley4. I Just Can’t Get You Out of My Head: How Music Triggers the ImaginationLeonieke Bolderman5. Space, Lived Culture, and Affectivities in Stirring Imagination David CrouchPart 2: Mediating Place 6. Screening the West Coast: Developing New Nordic Noir Tourism in Denmark and Using the Actual Places as Full-Scale Visual Mood Boards for the Scriptwriting ProcessAnne Marit Waade7. Flying Down to a Cosmopolitan-Tropical ParadiseBianca Freire-Medeiros8. Following Oshin and Amachan: Film Tourism and Nation Branding in the Analogue and Digital Ages Elisabeth Scherer and Timo Thelen9. Touring the Videogame CityBobby Schweizer10. Locating the Literary Imagination: Broadening the Scope of Literary Tourism Nicky Van EsPart 3: Being There 11. Toy Tourism: From Travel Bugs to Characters with WanderlustKatriina Heljakka and Pirita Ihamäki12. On (Be)Longing: The Der Bergdoktor Phenomenon at the European Cultural Periphery Andreja Trdina and Maja Turnšek13. Live Event-Spaces: Place And Space In The Mediatized Experience Of EventsEsther Hammelburg14. Fans and Fams: Experience and Belonging Aboard a Cruise Ship Music Festival David CashmanPart 4: Returning Home: Memory And Belonging 15. Strange Spaces of Mediated Memory: The Complicating Influence of Roots on Heritage Tourism in the Gambia, West Africa Jason Grek-Martin16. How Stories Relate to Places? Orhan Pamuk’s Museum of Innocence as Literary Tourism Marie-Laure Ryan17. Placing Fandom: Reflections on Film Tourism Abby Waysdorf18. The National Theatre, London, as a Theatrical/Architectural Object of Fan Imagination Matt Hills