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Travel Connections

Tourism, Technology and Togetherness in a Mobile World

By: Jennie Germann Molz

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Travel Connections

Tourism, Technology and Togetherness in a Mobile World

By: Jennie Germann Molz

Living in a world that is increasingly ‘on the move’ means that many of us now rely on mobile devices, social media, and networking technologies to coordinate togetherness with our social networks even when we are apart. Nowhere is this phenomenon more evident than in the emerging practices of ‘interactive travel’. Today’s travellers are more likely than ever to pack a laptop or a mobile phone and to use these devices to stay in touch with friends and family members – as well as to connect with strangers and other travellers – while they are on the road. New practices such as location-aware navigating, travel blogging, flashpacking and Couchsurfing now shape the way travellers engage with each other, with their social networks, and with the world around them. Travel Connections prompts a rethinking of the key paradigms in tourism studies in the digital age. Interactive travel calls into question longstanding tourism concepts such as landscape, the tourist gaze, hospitality, authenticity and escape. The book proposes a range of new concepts to describe the way tourists inhabit the world and engage with their social networks in the twenty-first century: smart tourism, the mediated gaze, mobile conviviality, re-enchantment and embrace. Based on intensive fieldwork with interactive travellers, Travel Connections offers a detailed account of this emerging phenomenon and uncovers the new forms of mediated and face-to-face togetherness that become possible in a mobile world. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of sociology, tourism and hospitality, new media, cosmopolitanism studies, mobility studies and cultural studies.

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1136337032

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The World Is Our Classroom

Extreme Parenting and the Rise of Worldschooling

By: Jennie Germann Molz

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Extreme Parenting and the Rise of Worldschooling

By: Jennie Germann Molz

How travelling the world allows new ways to educate children and perform family life on the move A growing number of families are selling their houses, quitting their jobs, and taking their children out of traditional school settings to educate them while traveling the globe. In The World is Our Classroom, Jennie Germann Molz explores the hopes and anxieties that drive these parents and children to leave their comfortable lives behind out of a desire to live the “good life” on the move. Drawing on interviews with parents and stories from the blogs they publish during their journeys, as well as her own experience traveling the world with her ten-year-old son, Germann Molz takes us inside a fascinating life spent on trains, boats, and planes. She shows why many parents—disillusioned with standard public schooling—believe the world is a child’s best classroom. Rebelling against convention, these parents combine technology and travel to pursue a different version of the good life, one in which parents can work remotely as “digital nomads,” participate in like-minded communities online, and expose their children to the risks, opportunities, and life lessons that the world has to offer. Ultimately, Germann Molz sheds light on the emerging phenomenon of “worldschooling,” showing that it is not just an alternative way to educate children, but an altogether new kind of mobile lifestyle. The World is Our Classroom paints an extreme portrait of twenty-first century parenting and some families’ attempts to raise global citizens prepared to thrive in the uncertain world of tomorrow.

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NYU Press

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1479891681

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Disruptive Tourism and its Untidy Guests

Alternative Ontologies for Future Hospitalities

By: S. Veijola,J. Germann Molz,Olli Pyyhtinen,E. Hockert,Alexander Grit,Jennie Germann Molz,Emily Höckert

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Alternative Ontologies for Future Hospitalities

By: S. Veijola,J. Germann Molz,Olli Pyyhtinen,E. Hockert,Alexander Grit,Jennie Germann Molz,Emily Höckert

This book invokes the radical potentialities of 'untidiness' to envision alternative arrangements of social life and hospitality. Instead of trying to manage sustainability or tidy up tourist situations, the authors embrace the messiness of human relations and argue for more creative, embodied and ethical ontologies of tourism and mobility.

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Springer

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1137399503

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The World Is Our Classroom

Extreme Parenting and the Rise of Worldschooling

By: Jennie Germann Molz

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Extreme Parenting and the Rise of Worldschooling

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Travel Connections

Tourism, Technology, and Togetherness in a Mobile World

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Travel Connections

Tourism, Technology, and Togetherness in a Mobile World

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This book offers a detailed and unified account of travelers' lived experiences of travel and technology use, and an ethnographically-informed analysis of the social, cultural and spatial implications of the intersection between travel and technology.

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Routledge

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0415682851

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9780415682855

Disruptive Tourism and its Untidy Guests

Alternative Ontologies for Future Hospitalities

By: S. Veijola,J. Germann Molz,Olli Pyyhtinen,E. Hockert,Alexander Grit,Jennie Germann Molz,Emily Höckert

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Alternative Ontologies for Future Hospitalities

By: S. Veijola,J. Germann Molz,Olli Pyyhtinen,E. Hockert,Alexander Grit,Jennie Germann Molz,Emily Höckert

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Travel Connections

Travel Connections

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Disruptive Tourism and its Untidy Guests

Disruptive Tourism and its Untidy Guests

The World Is Our Classroom

The World Is Our Classroom

Travel Connections

Travel Connections

Disruptive Tourism and its Untidy Guests

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