Travellers' Tales

Most of us, at various moments in our lives, either adopt a `tourist' identity of are framed within another's tourist experience. Travellers' Tales investigates the future for travelling in a world whose boundaries are shifting and dissolving. The contributors bring together popular and critical discourses of travel to explore questions of identity and politics; history and narration; collecting and representing other cultures. Travellers' tales oscillate between the thrill of novel experiences and unexpected pleasures, and the alienation and loneliness of exile in a strange land. The contributions review recent work on the discourses of tourism, travel and cultural politics; the effects of global interactions and local resistances, and the ways in which records, memorials and signs have all been used to describe the experience of encountering the `other'.

Contributors: Sunpreet Arshi, Stephen Bann, Jon Bird, Iain Chambers, Annie E. Coombes, Barry Curtis, Nelia Dias, Carmen Kirstein, Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger, Melinda Mash, Anne McClintock, Chantal Mouffe, Riaz Naqvi, Rob Nixon, Claire Pajaczlowska, Falk Pankow Grisela Pollock, Tim Putnam, Jacques Ranciere, George Robertson, Adrian Rifkin, Madan Sarup, Lisa Tickner, Trinh T. Minh-Ha, Peter Wollen