Sites of pilgrimage and heritage tourism are often sites of social inequality and volatility that are impaired by hostilities between historical, ethnic, and competing religious discourses of morality, personhood, and culture, as well as between imaginaries of nationalism and citizenship. Often these pilgrim sites are much older in national and global history than the actual sovereign nation-state in which they are located. Pertinent issues to do with finance—such as regimes of taxation, livelihoods, and the wealth of regional and national economies—underscore these sites of worship. The articles in this special issue engage with prolix travel arrangement, accommodation, and other aspects of heritage tourism in order to understand how intangible aspects of such tourism proceed. But they also relate back to when and how these modern infrastructures transformed the pilgrimage and explore what the emerging discourses and practices were that gave newer meanings to neoliberal pilgrimages. The different case studies presented in this issue analyze the impact of these journeys on the pilgrims’ own subjectivities—especially with regard to the holy sites being situated in their imaginations of historical continuity and discontinuity and with regard to their transformative experiences of worship—using both modern and traditional infrastructures.
{"title":"Heritage Tourism and Neoliberal Pilgrimages","authors":"Smita Yadav","doi":"10.3167/JYS.2019.200101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/JYS.2019.200101","url":null,"abstract":"Sites of pilgrimage and heritage tourism are often sites of social inequality and volatility that are impaired by hostilities between historical, ethnic, and competing religious discourses of morality, personhood, and culture, as well as between imaginaries of nationalism and citizenship. Often these pilgrim sites are much older in national and global history than the actual sovereign nation-state in which they are located. Pertinent issues to do with finance—such as regimes of taxation, livelihoods, and the wealth of regional and national economies—underscore these sites of worship. The articles in this special issue engage with prolix travel arrangement, accommodation, and other aspects of heritage tourism in order to understand how intangible aspects of such tourism proceed. But they also relate back to when and how these modern infrastructures transformed the pilgrimage and explore what the emerging discourses and practices were that gave newer meanings to neoliberal pilgrimages. The different case studies presented in this issue analyze the impact of these journeys on the pilgrims’ own subjectivities—especially with regard to the holy sites being situated in their imaginations of historical continuity and discontinuity and with regard to their transformative experiences of worship—using both modern and traditional infrastructures.","PeriodicalId":42316,"journal":{"name":"Journeys-The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87009231","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The 9/11 attacks claimed the lives of thousands of New Yorkers and also devastated the economy in Lower Manhattan. Many local businesses and restaurants were forced to close, and thousands of residents were displaced from their homes. For more than a decade, the neighborhoods surrounding the World Trade Center site struggled to stay afloat economically. However, recent years have witnessed the revitalization of this area as developers have built new office and retail spaces as well as museums and memorials that attract visitors from around the globe. Drawing from fieldwork conducted between 2010 and 2017, this article analyzes the significance of these rapid economic developments for individuals who were personally affected by the attacks. Some persons condemned the changes as immoral, believing that money and respectful remembrance cannot coexist. Others viewed the revitalization as redemptive, the product of the communitas that had united citizens after the tragedy.
{"title":"Rebuilding, Remembrance, and Commerce","authors":"K. Deconinck","doi":"10.3167/JYS.2019.200104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/JYS.2019.200104","url":null,"abstract":"The 9/11 attacks claimed the lives of thousands of New Yorkers and also devastated the economy in Lower Manhattan. Many local businesses and restaurants were forced to close, and thousands of residents were displaced from their homes. For more than a decade, the neighborhoods surrounding the World Trade Center site struggled to stay afloat economically. However, recent years have witnessed the revitalization of this area as developers have built new office and retail spaces as well as museums and memorials that attract visitors from around the globe. Drawing from fieldwork conducted between 2010 and 2017, this article analyzes the significance of these rapid economic developments for individuals who were personally affected by the attacks. Some persons condemned the changes as immoral, believing that money and respectful remembrance cannot coexist. Others viewed the revitalization as redemptive, the product of the communitas that had united citizens after the tragedy.","PeriodicalId":42316,"journal":{"name":"Journeys-The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76818736","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Focusing on the aesthetic, moral, and affective economies of one-day multisite pilgrimage tours of Indian-Jewish Israelis to the tombs of tzaddikim (“righteous persons”) as well as venerated sites of biblical figures in Israel, the article explores how the neoliberal idea of entrepreneurial competitiveness assists in mobilizing and sustaining culturally valued moral and aesthetic inclinations. Furthermore, it foregrounds the “multisensoriality” of religiously defined practice, emotion, and belief and their role in the production of an Indian-Jewish ambiance and the narratives that it elicits. Clearly, throughout their pilgrimage, Indian-Jewish Israelis carve out their own spaces in which they author the sacred sites and cultural landscapes that they visit through aesthetic engagement, embodied ritual, and, more generally, sensory enactment. However, in order to achieve the desired ambiance, Indian-Jewish pilgrims must to some extent become entrepreneurs or consumers in Israel’s flourishing market of folk veneration both with regard to homegrown and imported saintly Jewish figures.
{"title":"Indian-Jewish Shrine Hopping in Israel","authors":"Gabriele Shenar","doi":"10.3167/JYS.2019.200106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/JYS.2019.200106","url":null,"abstract":"Focusing on the aesthetic, moral, and affective economies of one-day multisite pilgrimage tours of Indian-Jewish Israelis to the tombs of tzaddikim (“righteous persons”) as well as venerated sites of biblical figures in Israel, the article explores how the neoliberal idea of entrepreneurial competitiveness assists in mobilizing and sustaining culturally valued moral and aesthetic inclinations. Furthermore, it foregrounds the “multisensoriality” of religiously defined practice, emotion, and belief and their role in the production of an Indian-Jewish ambiance and the narratives that it elicits. Clearly, throughout their pilgrimage, Indian-Jewish Israelis carve out their own spaces in which they author the sacred sites and cultural landscapes that they visit through aesthetic engagement, embodied ritual, and, more generally, sensory enactment. However, in order to achieve the desired ambiance, Indian-Jewish pilgrims must to some extent become entrepreneurs or consumers in Israel’s flourishing market of folk veneration both with regard to homegrown and imported saintly Jewish figures.","PeriodicalId":42316,"journal":{"name":"Journeys-The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88024238","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The article focuses on three early-seventeenth-century (English and Scottish) leisure travelers’ accounts of the (alleged) ruins of Homeric Troy, namely those penned by Thomas Coryat, William Lithgow, and George Sandys. It argues that their rumination on the specific remains both shaped and reflected their manifold, fractured, and precarious identities while it also highlighted the complex dialogue taking place in these texts between a ruinous past and a fragmented and malleable present. The essay also examines the three travelers’ broken poetics, interspersed in the aforementioned accounts, and shows that they constitute highly self-aggrandizing narratives through which their authors perform their fragile identities.
{"title":"Performing Identity","authors":"Vassiliki Markidou","doi":"10.3167/JYS.2018.190204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/JYS.2018.190204","url":null,"abstract":"The article focuses on three early-seventeenth-century (English and Scottish)\u0000leisure travelers’ accounts of the (alleged) ruins of Homeric Troy, namely those\u0000penned by Thomas Coryat, William Lithgow, and George Sandys. It argues that\u0000their rumination on the specific remains both shaped and reflected their manifold,\u0000fractured, and precarious identities while it also highlighted the complex\u0000dialogue taking place in these texts between a ruinous past and a fragmented and\u0000malleable present. The essay also examines the three travelers’ broken poetics,\u0000interspersed in the aforementioned accounts, and shows that they constitute\u0000highly self-aggrandizing narratives through which their authors perform their\u0000fragile identities.","PeriodicalId":42316,"journal":{"name":"Journeys-The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90365143","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
How can travel books and narrative ethnography be compared? This article systematically examines the works of an eminent travel writer and an anthropologist with respect to paratexts, themes, lexis, named entities, and narrative positions. It combines quantitative methods with a close reading of three books. The article discusses whether a mixed-methods approach of close reading and quantitative analysis can be applied to comparing larger corpora of travel writing and ethnography.
{"title":"A “Steady Eye” in “A Moving World”","authors":"Jörg Lehmann, Thomas Stodulka","doi":"10.3167/JYS.2018.190202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/JYS.2018.190202","url":null,"abstract":"How can travel books and narrative ethnography be compared? This article\u0000systematically examines the works of an eminent travel writer and an anthropologist\u0000with respect to paratexts, themes, lexis, named entities, and narrative\u0000positions. It combines quantitative methods with a close reading of three books.\u0000The article discusses whether a mixed-methods approach of close reading and\u0000quantitative analysis can be applied to comparing larger corpora of travel writing\u0000and ethnography.","PeriodicalId":42316,"journal":{"name":"Journeys-The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84599971","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alison G. Clark, Catherine Harvey, L. Kenward, J. Porter
Lady Annie Brassey (1839–1887) was a well-known Victorian travel writer who was also a collector, photographer, ethnographer, zoologist, and botanist and who traveled around the world aboard the privately owned yacht the Sunbeam. During these voyages she amassed a collection of approximately six thousand objects. Much more than tourist souvenirs, the collection shows a rigorous academic understanding of the disciplines she was collecting within. The ethnographic material, which makes up one-third of the collection, has gained little attention. Using her travel writing as a primary source, this article will interrogate Brassey’s role as the maker of this collection, someone whose class allowed her to travel and to pursue museum collection, curation, and education to a near-professional level. Through three case studies this article will consider how she collected and curated her own museum and used her collection for public benefit.
{"title":"More Than Souvenirs","authors":"Alison G. Clark, Catherine Harvey, L. Kenward, J. Porter","doi":"10.3167/jys.2018.190205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/jys.2018.190205","url":null,"abstract":"Lady Annie Brassey (1839–1887) was a well-known Victorian travel writer who\u0000was also a collector, photographer, ethnographer, zoologist, and botanist and\u0000who traveled around the world aboard the privately owned yacht the Sunbeam.\u0000During these voyages she amassed a collection of approximately six thousand\u0000objects. Much more than tourist souvenirs, the collection shows a rigorous academic\u0000understanding of the disciplines she was collecting within. The ethnographic\u0000material, which makes up one-third of the collection, has gained little\u0000attention. Using her travel writing as a primary source, this article will interrogate\u0000Brassey’s role as the maker of this collection, someone whose class allowed\u0000her to travel and to pursue museum collection, curation, and education to a\u0000near-professional level. Through three case studies this article will consider how\u0000she collected and curated her own museum and used her collection for public\u0000benefit.","PeriodicalId":42316,"journal":{"name":"Journeys-The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77635428","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Travel writers seldom reveal the degree to which they deploy fictional elements in their notionally nonfictional books, nor do they discuss the precise motivations for and mechanics of fictionalization and fabrication in travel writing. In this article a travel-writing practitioner turned travel-writing scholar analyzes his own work: the thirteen-year-old manuscript of The Ghost Islands, an unpublished travel book about Indonesia. This analysis reveals various patterns of fabrication across what was presented as and intended to be a “true account,” including the craft-driven fabrications necessitated by reordering and amalgamating events, the omissions generated by attempts to overcome belatedness and to express antitouristic sentiments, the fictional elements introduced through the handling of dialogue and translation, and the self-fictionalization impelled by awareness of genre conventions. The article highlights the significance of writerly craft as a key—and largely overlooked—variable in the scholarly analysis of travel-writing texts.
{"title":"Counting Up the Lies","authors":"Tim Hannigan","doi":"10.3167/JYS.2018.190201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/JYS.2018.190201","url":null,"abstract":"Travel writers seldom reveal the degree to which they deploy fictional elements\u0000in their notionally nonfictional books, nor do they discuss the precise motivations\u0000for and mechanics of fictionalization and fabrication in travel writing. In\u0000this article a travel-writing practitioner turned travel-writing scholar analyzes\u0000his own work: the thirteen-year-old manuscript of The Ghost Islands, an unpublished\u0000travel book about Indonesia. This analysis reveals various patterns of\u0000fabrication across what was presented as and intended to be a “true account,”\u0000including the craft-driven fabrications necessitated by reordering and amalgamating\u0000events, the omissions generated by attempts to overcome belatedness and\u0000to express antitouristic sentiments, the fictional elements introduced through the\u0000handling of dialogue and translation, and the self-fictionalization impelled by\u0000awareness of genre conventions. The article highlights the significance of writerly\u0000craft as a key—and largely overlooked—variable in the scholarly analysis of\u0000travel-writing texts.","PeriodicalId":42316,"journal":{"name":"Journeys-The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75624613","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Charles S. Maier, Once Within Borders: Territories of Power, Wealth, and Belonging since 1500 (Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2016), xiii + 387 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, and index. ISBN: $29.95.
Charles S. Maier，《曾经在边界之内:1500年以来的权力、财富和归属》(剑桥:哈佛大学出版社Belknap出版社，2016)，13 + 387页。插图、地图、注释、参考书目和索引。ISBN: 29.95美元。
{"title":"Unsolid Ground","authors":"F. Fernandez-Armesto","doi":"10.3167/jys.2018.190206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/jys.2018.190206","url":null,"abstract":"Charles S. Maier, Once Within Borders: Territories of Power, Wealth, and\u0000Belonging since 1500 (Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University\u0000Press, 2016), xiii + 387 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, and\u0000index. ISBN: $29.95.","PeriodicalId":42316,"journal":{"name":"Journeys-The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91106930","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Although early reviewers of Edwin Abbott’s Flatland recognized the novel as a fictional travelogue, the travelogue aspect of the novel remains underexamined. This essay examines Flatland as a travelogue and as a work of ethnographic criticism in relation to the emergence of Victorian anthropology as a science. Situating Flatland in relation to the emergence of Victorian anthropology as a science and in relation to Notes and Queries on Anthropology, For the Use of Travellers and Residents in Uncivilized Lands (1874)—in particular to its concerns with the dangers of cultural assumptions—provides a means of tackling the problem both early reviewers and more recent scholars have noted concerning the marked differences between the novel’s two parts and the difficulties of making sense of the novel as a whole.
{"title":"Edwin Abbott’s Flatland and Victorian Anthropology","authors":"Valerie Smith","doi":"10.3167/JYS.2018.190203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3167/JYS.2018.190203","url":null,"abstract":"Although early reviewers of Edwin Abbott’s Flatland recognized the novel as a\u0000fictional travelogue, the travelogue aspect of the novel remains underexamined.\u0000This essay examines Flatland as a travelogue and as a work of ethnographic criticism\u0000in relation to the emergence of Victorian anthropology as a science. Situating\u0000Flatland in relation to the emergence of Victorian anthropology as a science\u0000and in relation to Notes and Queries on Anthropology, For the Use of Travellers\u0000and Residents in Uncivilized Lands (1874)—in particular to its concerns with\u0000the dangers of cultural assumptions—provides a means of tackling the problem\u0000both early reviewers and more recent scholars have noted concerning the marked\u0000differences between the novel’s two parts and the difficulties of making sense of\u0000the novel as a whole.","PeriodicalId":42316,"journal":{"name":"Journeys-The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86768514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Why did London place his life and those of his crew at risk of imminent death when he voyaged to the Solomon Islands in 1908, a region he believed to be filled with cannibals and headhunters? Based on archival sources, the books London had read to prepare himself for the voyage, and recent ethno-history of the region, this article argues that London’s voyage did not occasion a more enlightened view of race, as some recent scholars have argued; indeed, his months in the Solomon Islands confirmed the racialist cast of his thinking. London undertook his journey into a region he perceived as dangerous as part of a sense of adventure that depended on demonstrating courage and manliness, and in the process he acted as a metaphoric headhunter himself.
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