Category Archives: travel

More on tourism and travelling – J.J. (‘Hans’) Bakker’s Review of Arthur Asa Berger’s Bali Tourism #sssi

Posted on March 17, 2015 by Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction - Blog

We stick with the topic of tourism and travelling. Arthur Asa Berger who is well known for his pioneering work on popular culture in the 1960s and 1970s has written a series of short quasi-ethnographic books based on his travels … Continue reading →

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Troubled by travel experiences? Read Ginna Husting “The Flayed and Exquisite Self of Travelers” #sssi #sociology

Posted on March 10, 2015 by Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction - Blog

When travelling across linguistic and cultural boundaries we often encounter challenging situations that require us to negotiate “new milieux”. These situations threaten our identity and sense of self. Ginna Husting, in her article “The Flayed and Exquisite Self of Travelers: … Continue reading →

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