Being-on-Holiday

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This article explores the relevance of dwelling and embodiment metaphorsin tourist studies. These metaphors make possible an account of tourism whichacknowledges the mobile and complex reality of the 21st century whilst neitherdelocalizing nor dis-embodying nor isolating tourists. In proposing such metaphors, Idevelop the possibilities of non-representational theory in tourist studies (Thrift, 1997).This article develops a perspective on tourism as a practical and embodied waythrough which we are involved in the world, we create knowledge and interact withthe physical environment; to put it in Heideggerian terms, a way of being-intheworld, of dwelling in it. This article is thus able to explore the possibilities that ideasof a situated, elusory and expressive body open in tourist studies and considers ade-centred and rhizomatic understanding of tourist agency that neither underminesthe material and non-material networks folded into the human world noroveremphasizes the human action, concealing the inevitably messy human condition.

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