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  • Tourist Cultures

    Identity, Place and the Traveller

    by Stephen Wearing, Deborah Stevenson, Tamara Young ...
    This is a timely and easily accessible book that addresses a number of issues that are of central concern to the development of tourism studies. It will also be of interest to those in cultural studies, social geography and social anthropology who are concerned with the relationship between the production and consumption of place.- Kevin Meethan, University of PlymouthSharp and engaging, Tourist ... Read more

    $78.29 USD

  • Transformational Tourism

    Host Perspectives

    by Yvette Reisinger, Dr Mark Kanning, Sagar Sagar, Bianca Bianca, Ignacio Ignacio, Melanie Smith, Anya Diekmann, Michael Michael, Isaac Isaac, Omar Moufakkir, Stephen Wearing, Adrian Deville, Eric Brymer, Keith Keith, Dr Gregory J Ashworth ...
    Transformational Tourism deals with the important issue of how travel and tourism can change human behaviour and have a positive impact on the world. The book focuses on human development in a world dominated by post-9/11 security and political challenges, economic and financial collapses, as well as environmental threats; it identifies various types of tourism that can transform human beings, ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Social Psychology and Theories of Consumer Culture

    A Political Economy Perspective

    by Matthew McDonald, Stephen Wearing ...
    Social Psychology and Theories of Consumer Culture: A Political Economy Perspective presents a critical analysis of the leading positions in social psychology from the perspective of classical and contemporary theories of consumer culture. The analysis seeks to expand social psychological theory by focusing on the interface between modern western culture (consumer culture) and social behaviour ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • 'Alternative' cultures and leisure

    Creating pathways for sustainable livelihoods

    Edited by Alan Law, Stephen Wearing ...
    Contemporary discourse on sustainability points to the need for substantial, if not radical, shifts in relations between productivity, environment, consumption and identities, in ways which bring or restore balance to the intersecting domains. The catchphrase of ‘sustainability’ has made its way into mainstream discourse on the heels of the ongoing global financial crisis and responses to global ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • International Volunteer Tourism

    Integrating Travellers and Communities

    by Stephen Wearing, Nancy Gard McGehee ...
    Volunteer tourism has increased in popularity and prevalence and is no longer considered only a small section of alternative tourism. It is now part of the mainstream tourism industry and tourism experience for many people. Concentrating on the experience of the volunteer tourist and the host community, this new book builds on the view of volunteer tourism as a positive and sustainable form of ... Read more

    $118.99 USD

  • Ecotourism

    Transitioning to the 22nd Century

    by Stephen Wearing, Stephen Schweinsberg ...
    Since the first edition of the title, ecotourism has become a major phenomenon in tourism and society in many countries and regions throughout the world. The profusion of experiences has generated a variety of means of theorizing, analysing and marketing ecotourism, all that have yet to be encompassed in one book.Ecotourism fills the gap by synthesising the changes in thinking and society over the ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

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    by John Smyth ...
    Series series Critical Pedagogy Today
    We live in a time when those who wield unrestrained power believe they have the inalienable right to determine the destiny, nature and shape of social institutions like schools. Critical Pedagogy for Social Justice challenges this arrogance by showing how teachers, students, parents, communities, and researchers can develop narratives that amount to working with and for those who are increasingly ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Mobile Learning Communities

    Creating New Educational Futures

    by Patrick Alan Danaher, Beverley Moriarty, Geoff Danaher ...
    Mobile Learning Communities explores the diverse ways in which traveling groups experience learning ‘on the run’. This book provides empirical evidence that draws on the authors’ 17 years of continuing research with international occupational Travelers. It engages with themes such as workplace learning, globalization, multiliteracies, and emerging technologies which impinge on the ways mobile ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Challenges in Tourism Research

    Edited by Tej Vir Singh ...
    Series Book 70 - Aspects of Tourism
    In this volume leading experts from different disciplines and diverse geographic regions discuss fundamental, often controversial topics in the field of tourism studies. The book attempts to understand, identify and analyse some of the perennial problems and challenges encountered by tourism researchers. The debates include topics such as the concept of the ‘tourist’, the long-term sustainability ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Sociology of Educational Innovation

    Contemporary Sociology of the School

    by Tom Whiteside ...
    Innovation is a striking and polemical feature of contemporary schooling. The 1960s saw an upsurge of interest in progressive educational theories and debate and the benefits and disadvantages of their practical application, which continued after. But what was the reality behind the words? How far had teachers actually supported or adopted innov ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Leisure Studies

    Edited by Tony Blackshaw ...
    This landmark publication brings together some of the most perceptive commentators of the present moment to explore core ideas and cutting edge developments in the field of Leisure Studies. It offers important new insights into the dynamics of the transformation of leisure in contemporary societies, tracing the emergent issues at stake in the discipline and examining Leisure Studies’ fundamental ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Cities and Consumption

    by Mark Jayne ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City
    In investigating the mutual and dynamic relationship between urban development and consumption, this book asks: how are cities moulded by consumption, and how is consumption moulded by cities?Consumption stands at the intersection of different spheres of everyday life: between the public and the private, the political and the personal, the individual and the social. It is considered to be a means ... Read more

    $81.99 USD