2023/10/12 by Edward H. Huijbens · 1 voice · 2 citations
Psychology · Social Sciences · #Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking #Geographies of human-animal interactions #Spatial and Cultural Studies
paper · doi:10.1080/14616688.2023.2269534
openalex publication_date 2023/10/12 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
This paper rethinks tourism and its spatial implications under the terms of the Anthropocene. This rethinking recognises our intricate dependencies with each other and the places and spaces we make in the everyday. The paper argues for the need to create thick and rich stories, stories which can counter the current dominant consumptive desires. Herein stories of ‘earthly attachments’ and ‘conviviality’ are proposed, centred on care, responsibility and reciprocity. The place of tourism geographies is arguable in valuing multiple perspectives from the more-than/non-human world and the other in their myriad manifestations and geographical variability. Realising the virtual potential of earthly attachments, makes each and every place rich, meaningful and a source of inspiration for us all. Telling stories thereof, enlivens the senses and thereby offers a way to penetrate the desiring machine of consumptive capitalism which at current animates our needs and wants and is leading to the climate catastrophes of the Anthropocene.