Mobilizing Hospitality by Jennie Germann Molz and Sarah Gibson

By Jennie Germann Molz and Sarah Gibson

Lately, curiosity and educational debate has spiralled round the suggestion of 'mobility'. Drawing on learn from the fields of anthropology, geography, sociology and tourism experiences, this quantity examines the intersection among mobility and hospitality, highlighting new topics and concerns in every one box. via a sequence of numerous empirical bills, it makes a speciality of the transnational circulation of individuals within the contexts of migration and tourism and examines how hospitality serves as a manner of selling and policing encounters, wondering how those family members are marked via exclusion in addition to inclusion, by means of violence in addition to by way of kindness. as well as exploring the facility family among cellular populations (hosts and site visitors) and attitudes (hospitality and hostility), the booklet additionally examines areas of hospitality and mobility, equivalent to lodges, golf equipment, cafes, spas, asylums, eating places, airports, houses and homepages. In doing so, it makes an important contribution to the political and moral dimensions of cellular social kinfolk.

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