Travel and Representation

Garth Lean is a Lecturer in Geography and Urban Studies in the School of Social Sciences and Psychology at Western Sydney University.

“This is a well-written book that disentangles, through sound interdisciplinary scholarship, the multiple workings of travel representations, their effects on people, and their limits…[It] is definitely recommended reading for graduate students and scholars with an interest in how travel, including tourism, is represented and how both travel and its representations mutually influence each other.” • JRAI (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute)“This is a collection of beautifully written chapters coalescing around a set of mutually illuminating themes: the visual, the poetic, imagination, the post-representational, travel, and self/world making. Moving from film to the Internet, from photography to music, and from travel writing and poetry to television commercials, Travel and Representation puts this debate over representation into terms that are amenable to tourism studies and research.” • Jennie Germann Molz, College of the Holy Cross“This is an innovative collection of chapters that pushes the scope of research at the intersections between travel and representation in new directions by focusing on what representations ‘do’ in constructing the sensory and emotional experiences of travelers.” • Duncan Light, Bournemouth University

• List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction
: Travel and Representation: Past, Present, FutureRussell Staiff, Emma Waterton and Garth LeanChapter 1. Repeating Visions: Hitchcock’s Vertigo and San FranciscoGemma BlackwoodChapter 2. Curious Images from Northwest China: Ethics and Poetics in Carolyn Drake’s Travel PhotographyDarren BylerChapter 3. Astronauts and Avatars: Travels between the Physical, the Virtual and the ImaginedDenise DoyleChapter 4. Finitude before Finitude: The Case of Rousseau-Bougainville-DiderotBenoît DilletChapter 5. Bernhard Smith and Imagining the Pacific: The Art/Poetics of ‘Discovery’ and the Art/Poetics of Writing about Early European Travellers in the South PacificRussell StaiffChaprter 6. Searching for the Spirit of BluegrassCynthia J. MillerChapter 7. The Transient Gaze – Perambulist Somnambulist (Sensual, Sonic and Aural Photographic Narratives)Peter DayChapter 8. Snapshot Photography and a Gendered Poetics of the Beach 1900–1920sNicolá GocChapter 9. Mediating Mythic Origins and Lived Localities: Connecting and Distancing on Roots/Homeland ToursJillian L. PowersChapter 10. Road Trip through the Heartland: Television Advertisements and the Australian Domestic TravellerChristopher DrewIndex