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Couchsurfing through the lens of agential realism: intra-active constructions of identity and challenging the subject-object dualism.
Michael O'Regan
The host gaze in global tourism, Pages: 161 - 177
Swansea University Author: Michael O'Regan
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DOI (Published version): 10.1079/9781780640211.0161
Abstract
This chapter looks at the reflexive practice of hospitality exchange, enabled by the site, couchsurfing.com, an apparatus that enables individuals to seek new solidarities, encounters, relations and feelings, through and with others. By asking who are guests and hosts in the age of mobility, network...
| Published in: | The host gaze in global tourism |
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| ISBN: | 9781780640211 |
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Wallingford
CABI
2013
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa58350 |
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This chapter looks at the reflexive practice of hospitality exchange, enabled by the site, couchsurfing.com, an apparatus that enables individuals to seek new solidarities, encounters, relations and feelings, through and with others. By asking who are guests and hosts in the age of mobility, networks and flow, the chapter argues that the standardized classification and binary model of host-guest blurs once transformative changes are individually realized through and with human and nonhuman others. The framework of the chapter offers a theoretical approach that moves beyond presumed oppositions between host and guest. |
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Book editors: O. Moufakkir and Y. Reisinger |
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Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
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161 |
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177 |