Disruptive Tourism and its Untidy Guests

Abstract

"Disruptive Tourism and its Untidy Guests" envisions alternative arrangements of social life by welcoming 'the untidy guest' to discourses, theories and philosophies of tourism. Written by an author collective with backgrounds in philosophy, sociology, tourism, hospitality and development studies, the book transfers the focus of tourism theories away from managing sustainability and toward alternative -- disruptive -- ontologies and epistemologies for future tourist hospitalities and mobilities. The co-authors 'mess around' with tourism studies by invoking the radical potentialities of 'untidiness'. Tourism and the host-guest relations it entails are explored by means of deliberately untidy concepts: camping, parasites, silence, unlearning and serendipities. Instead of trying to manage or tidy up tourist situations and encounters, Disruptive Tourism and its Untidy Guests embraces the messiness of human relations and argues for more creative, embodied and ethical ontologies of tourism, hospitality and mobility. 1. Introduction: Alternative Tourism Ontologies -- 2. Camping In Clearing; Jennie Germann Molz -- 3. Paradise With/Out Parasites; Olli Pyyhtinen -- 4. Towards Silent Communities; Soile Veijola -- 5. Unlearning Through Hospitality; Emily H̲ckert -- 6. Messing Around With Serendipities; Alexander Grit -- 7. Conclusion: Prepositions and Other Stories.