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Staging Visitation frames tourism and travel as complex social performances that shape identities, communities, and global imaginaries. This volume proposes “visitation” as a framework that emphasizes the participatory and relational dimensions of travel. While tourism is often pejoratively framed as a commodified or exploitative leisure activity for those with means, its reality is far more nuanced. Tourism stages heritage, provokes encounters across cultural divides, and prompts both visitors and hosts to negotiate values and identities—all while sustaining economies (and the power relations they produce) at global and local scales. From museums and theme parks to festivals and influencer culture, the essays in this volume trace how transitory encounters—embodied, affective, and historically layered—build travel destinations into theatricalized places. These essays bring theater and performance studies into conversation with cultural geography, sociology, anthropology, and media studies to demonstrate how tourism functions as both a stage and a repertoire for modern life. Staging Visitation argues that travel is not only about movement across space, but also about the performance of culture itself—its preservation, reinvention, and transformation.
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Keywords
- african american studies
- Asian Studies
- Black futurism
- Commodification and authenticity
- Corporeal dimensions of tourism
- Cross-cultural encounters.
- Cultural festivals
- cultural heritage
- Cultural tourism economies
- Dinosaur tourism
- Eco-tourism
- Ethical travel
- ethnic studies
- ethnography
- Global event tourism
- Globalization and mobility
- heritage sites
- Heritage Studies
- Heritage tourism
- Host and visitor relationships
- Immersive travel
- influencers
- Intercultural performance
- Latin American Studies
- Narrative and visitation
- Neoliberalism
- Olympic ceremonies
- Performance
- Performance and cultural policy
- performance ethnography
- Performance studies
- place-making
- Political economy of tourism
- Repertoires of travel
- Safari
- Social media
- Spectacle and tourism
- Staging culture
- sustainable tourism
- Theatre and globalization
- thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts
- thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATD Theatre studies
- thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AV Music::AVP Musicians, singers, bands and groups
- Theme parks
- Tourism
- Tourism Studies
- Tourist gaze
- transnationalism
- Travel and community
- Travel and environment
- Travel and globalization
- Travel narratives
- Travel vlogs
- Virtual tourism
- Visitation
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DOI: 10.3998/mpub.12863389Editions