Staging Visitation
Staging Visitation frames tourism and travel as complex social performances that shape identities, communities, and global imaginaries. This volume proposes “visitation” as a framework that emphasizes the participatory and relational dimensions of travel. While tourism is often pejoratively framed a...
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2026
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| description | Staging Visitation frames tourism and travel as complex social performances that shape identities, communities, and global imaginaries. This volume proposes “visitation” as a framework that emphasizes the participatory and relational dimensions of travel. While tourism is often pejoratively framed as a commodified or exploitative leisure activity for those with means, its reality is far more nuanced. Tourism stages heritage, provokes encounters across cultural divides, and prompts both visitors and hosts to negotiate values and identities—all while sustaining economies (and the power relations they produce) at global and local scales. From museums and theme parks to festivals and influencer culture, the essays in this volume trace how transitory encounters—embodied, affective, and historically layered—build travel destinations into theatricalized places. These essays bring theater and performance studies into conversation with cultural geography, sociology, anthropology, and media studies to demonstrate how tourism functions as both a stage and a repertoire for modern life. Staging Visitation argues that travel is not only about movement across space, but also about the performance of culture itself—its preservation, reinvention, and transformation. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1779472026-06-22T05:40:29Z Staging Visitation Schmidt, Bryan W. Twardowski, Weston Tourism Tourism studies Performance Performance studies Visitation Theatre and globalization Cultural heritage Ethnography Performance ethnography Tourist gaze Neoliberalism Political economy of tourism Ethnic studies Latin American Studies Asian Studies African American Studies Heritage tourism Heritage studies Commodification and authenticity Intercultural performance Transnationalism Cultural tourism economies Performance and cultural policy Globalization and mobility Repertoires of travel Corporeal dimensions of tourism Narrative and visitation Staging culture Host and visitor relationships Travel and globalization Travel and community Travel narratives Sustainable tourism Ethical travel Immersive travel Theme parks Spectacle and tourism Olympic ceremonies Cultural festivals Virtual tourism Social media Influencers Travel vlogs Heritage sites Travel and environment Safari Dinosaur tourism Black futurism Eco-tourism Global event tourism Place-making Cross-cultural encounters. thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATD Theatre studies thema EDItEUR::W Lifestyle, Hobbies and Leisure::WT Travel and holiday::WTH Travel and holiday guides::WTHM Travel guides: museums, historic sites, galleries etc thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AV Music::AVP Musicians, singers, bands and groups Staging Visitation frames tourism and travel as complex social performances that shape identities, communities, and global imaginaries. This volume proposes “visitation” as a framework that emphasizes the participatory and relational dimensions of travel. While tourism is often pejoratively framed as a commodified or exploitative leisure activity for those with means, its reality is far more nuanced. Tourism stages heritage, provokes encounters across cultural divides, and prompts both visitors and hosts to negotiate values and identities—all while sustaining economies (and the power relations they produce) at global and local scales. From museums and theme parks to festivals and influencer culture, the essays in this volume trace how transitory encounters—embodied, affective, and historically layered—build travel destinations into theatricalized places. These essays bring theater and performance studies into conversation with cultural geography, sociology, anthropology, and media studies to demonstrate how tourism functions as both a stage and a repertoire for modern life. Staging Visitation argues that travel is not only about movement across space, but also about the performance of culture itself—its preservation, reinvention, and transformation. 2026-06-22T05:40:28Z 2026-06-22T05:40:28Z 2026-06-21T10:28:38Z 2026 book book ONIX_20260621T103020_9780472905942_3 http://www.press.umich.edu https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/114303 9780472905942 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/177947 eng open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/114303/1/9780472905942.pdf Michigan State University Press University of Michigan Press 10.3998/mpub.12863389 10.3998/mpub.12863389 aa7f6664-5117-41d8-90f8-c3af56526b92 9780472905942 University of Michigan Press 302 open access |
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| title | Staging Visitation |
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| topic | Tourism Tourism studies Performance Performance studies Visitation Theatre and globalization Cultural heritage Ethnography Performance ethnography Tourist gaze Neoliberalism Political economy of tourism Ethnic studies Latin American Studies Asian Studies African American Studies Heritage tourism Heritage studies Commodification and authenticity Intercultural performance Transnationalism Cultural tourism economies Performance and cultural policy Globalization and mobility Repertoires of travel Corporeal dimensions of tourism Narrative and visitation Staging culture Host and visitor relationships Travel and globalization Travel and community Travel narratives Sustainable tourism Ethical travel Immersive travel Theme parks Spectacle and tourism Olympic ceremonies Cultural festivals Virtual tourism Social media Influencers Travel vlogs Heritage sites Travel and environment Safari Dinosaur tourism Black futurism Eco-tourism Global event tourism Place-making Cross-cultural encounters. thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATD Theatre studies thema EDItEUR::W Lifestyle, Hobbies and Leisure::WT Travel and holiday::WTH Travel and holiday guides::WTHM Travel guides: museums, historic sites, galleries etc thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AV Music::AVP Musicians, singers, bands and groups |
| topic_facet | Tourism Tourism studies Performance Performance studies Visitation Theatre and globalization Cultural heritage Ethnography Performance ethnography Tourist gaze Neoliberalism Political economy of tourism Ethnic studies Latin American Studies Asian Studies African American Studies Heritage tourism Heritage studies Commodification and authenticity Intercultural performance Transnationalism Cultural tourism economies Performance and cultural policy Globalization and mobility Repertoires of travel Corporeal dimensions of tourism Narrative and visitation Staging culture Host and visitor relationships Travel and globalization Travel and community Travel narratives Sustainable tourism Ethical travel Immersive travel Theme parks Spectacle and tourism Olympic ceremonies Cultural festivals Virtual tourism Social media Influencers Travel vlogs Heritage sites Travel and environment Safari Dinosaur tourism Black futurism Eco-tourism Global event tourism Place-making Cross-cultural encounters. thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATD Theatre studies thema EDItEUR::W Lifestyle, Hobbies and Leisure::WT Travel and holiday::WTH Travel and holiday guides::WTHM Travel guides: museums, historic sites, galleries etc thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AV Music::AVP Musicians, singers, bands and groups |
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