Understanding Tourism Mobilities in Japan [1 ed.]

Table of contents :
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Series editor foreword
Introduction: the significance of research on tourism mobilities and related issues
The age of mobilities
The 'mobility turn' in the human and social sciences
Significance of research on tourism mobilities
Issues in research on tourism mobilities
Locality
Performativity
Overview of this volume
Notes
References
Chapter 1: Seeking sensuous mobilities: tourist quests for familiarityand alterity
Introduction
Sensing while mobile
Comfortable and predictable sensations
Enlivening
Conclusion
References
Chapter 2: Tourism, ‘nowstalgia’ and the (non)experience of place
Introduction
Space, place and the tourist experience
Tourist photography: from cameras to smartphones
The digitalisation of photography
Smartphone photography and 'nowstalgic' tourist experiences
Conclusion
References
Chapter 3: New tourism and social transformation in postmodernity: sociological examination of Japanese new tourism
Introduction
Pseudo-event and staged authenticity
Ironies of The Beach and new tourism
Are young travellers of The Beach new tourists?
Characteristics of new tourism
Similarity between The Beach's new tourists and new tourism
Change of Japanese tourism and the vision of new tourism
Modernisation of tourism and new tourism's political meaning in Japan
Japanese tourism policy after the Second World War
The "failure" of Resort Law and structural reflexivity
Launching of the Tourism Agency and new tourism
New tourism led by consumers
Social change and new tourism
Sociocultural change
Sociocultural change and new tourism
Socioeconomic change and tourism: post-Fordism and new tourism
Is postmodern tourism liberational or repressive?
Conclusion: is a heterotopia of tourism possible?
Notes
References
Chapter 4: Late tourism and ‘boomerang’ mobility in Japan
The end of tourism in Japan?
Post-tourism in late modern society
Arrow and boomerang in tourism mobility
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 5: Mobility turn in rural districts in Japan: from “Kankō (tourism)” to “Kankei (relationships)”
Productionism in post-war Japan
"Critical turn" against productionism
"Cultural turn": attention to rural matters and rural representation
"Material quality and consumptional turn": from stagnation of Green Tourism to agricultural diversification
Mobility turn: diversification of "mobility"
From “Kanko−” (tourism) to “Kankei” (relatonships)
Case study
Sakura Village Office Camp (SVOP)
Functions of SVOP
SVOP's actual state of use
Catalyst of rural migration
Reasons for migration
Conclusion
Acknowledgement
References
Chapter 6: The new mobile assemblages created by Pokémon GO
Introduction
The mobile assemblage perspective
The features of the “smartphone-player-Pokémon GO” mobile assemblage
The mobile assemblage of the "Pokémon Go-player-place"
Conclusion
Supplementary note
Notes
References
Chapter 7: The roots and routes of Matryoshka: souvenirs and tourist mobility in Russia, Japan, and the world
Introduction: Russian Matryoshki in Japan
Souvenirs on the move
The roots and development of Matryoshki
Travelling Matryoshki: nesting doll routes
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 8: “Transference of traditions” in tourism: local identities as images reflected in infinity mirrors
Introduction
Transformation and invention of traditions in tourism
Case study: the Yosakoi Festival
Local identities as images reflected in infinity mirrors: with reference to the ideas of Freud and Lacan
The fluidization of local identities: tourism is expanding non-originality
Notes
References
Chapter 9: Marathon mobilities: a western tourist perspective on Japanese marathons
Introduction
Tourism (running) mobilities
Marathon running in Japan
Ethnographic vignette 1: Kyoto Marathon
Vignette 2: Tokyo Marathon
Conclusion
References
Chapter 10: Performative nationalism in Japan’s inbound tourism television programmes: YOU, Sekai! (The world), and the tourism nation
Introduction
Making a tourism nation: Japan's inbound tourism policy between 2003 and 2016
Performative nationalism in Japan: a brief history
YOU and Sekai! Unpacking Japan's inbound tourism television programmes
Methods and data collection
The performative 'good tourist': welcoming Western cultural tourism
It's not about 'You': rediscovering Japaneseness through the Other
The other Others: on the performative suppression of difference
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 11: Shibuya Crossing as a non-tourist site: performative participation and re-staging
Introduction: a strange tourist site
Shibuya as a staged city
The death and life of great Shibuya
Shibuya as a non-tourist site
Participatory tourism
Performativity of tourist performance
Participatory turn
Re-staged Shibuya
References
Chapter 12: Mobilising pilgrim bodily space: the contest between authentic and folk pilgrimage in the interwar period
Introduction
Uniqueness found in looseness
Between modern tourism and pilgrimage: new experiences along the circuit
Representations of religious bodies and spirituality
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 13: Digital media as “social spaces” of tourism: the Japanese cases of travelling material things
Introduction
The effect of mobility on "social spaces" in the present age
"Social spaces" in the present age
The age of mobility: divergence and convergence of mobility-scapes
Media as social spaces in the "age of mobility"
Digital media as "social spaces"
A focus on "platforms"
Tourism mobility realized by "platforms"
The significance of "platforms" to tourism
When material things go on holiday
Concluding remarks: remaining questions
Supplementary note
Notes
References
Index