Why wilderness? Alienation, authenticity, and nature

IF 2.3 4区管理学 Q2 HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM

Tourist Studies Pub Date : 2019-03-01 DOI:10.1177/1468797617723473

Elizabeth S. Vidon

引用次数: 35

Abstract

Focusing on the role psychoanalytic alienation plays in tourist motivation, this article contributes to recent scholarship that aims to redevelop the dialectic relationship between authenticity and alienation in tourism studies. Lacanian psychoanalysis is the primary lens through which this is accomplished, by application to wilderness and nature tourism in the Adirondacks of Upstate New York, USA. This approach adds further insight as to the draw of nature tourism by interrogating not only what nature tourists are seeking but also what drives them to seek it. As such, this attention to the dialectical relationship of authenticity and alienation has implications for theories of tourism that seek to understand the relationship of tourism motivation to touristic experience.

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为什么荒野?异化，真实性和自然

本文着眼于精神分析异化在旅游动机中的作用，为重新发展旅游研究中真实性与异化之间的辩证关系做出了贡献。通过对美国纽约州北部阿迪朗达克的荒野和自然旅游的应用，拉康精神分析是实现这一目标的主要视角。这种方法不仅询问了自然游客在寻求什么，而且还询问了驱使他们寻求自然旅游的原因，从而进一步深入了解自然旅游的吸引力。因此，这种对真实性和异化的辩证关系的关注对寻求理解旅游动机与旅游体验之间关系的旅游理论具有启示意义。

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来源期刊

Tourist Studies HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM-

CiteScore

6.90

自引率

4.20%

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期刊介绍： Tourist Studies is a multi-disciplinary journal providing a platform for the development of critical perspectives on the nature of tourism as a social phenomenon through a qualitative lens. Theoretical and multi-disciplinary. Tourist Studies provides a critical social science approach to the study of the tourist and the structures which influence tourist behaviour and the production and reproduction of tourism. The journal examines the relationship between tourism and related fields of social inquiry. Tourism and tourist styles consumption are not only emblematic of many features of contemporary social change, such as mobility, restlessness, the search for authenticity and escape, but they are increasingly central to economic restructuring, globalization, the sociology of consumption and the aestheticization of everyday life. Tourist Studies analyzes these features of tourism from a multi-disciplinary perspective and seeks to evaluate, compare and integrate approaches to tourism from sociology, socio-psychology, leisure studies, cultural studies, geography and anthropology. Global Perspective. Tourist Studies takes a global perspective of tourism, widening and challenging the established views of tourism presented in current periodical literature. Tourist Studies includes: Theoretical analysis with a firm grounding in contemporary problems and issues in tourism studies, qualitative analyses of tourism and the tourist experience, reviews linking theory and policy, interviews with scholars at the forefront of their fields, review essays on particular fields or issues in the study of tourism, review of key texts, publications and visual media relating to tourism studies, and notes on conferences and other events of topical interest to the field of tourism studies.