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Couchsurfing cosmopolitanisms: can tourism make a better world?

Couchsurfing cosmopolitanisms: can tourism make a better world? Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, 2015 Vol. 13, No. 3, 275–283 BOOK REVIEWS Couchsurfing cosmopolitanisms: can tourism make a better world? by David Picard and Sonja Buchberger, Bielefeld, Transcript Verlag, 2013, 187 pp., 25.80€ (paperback), ISBN 978-3-8376-2255-3 This book makes an original and valuable contribution to the studies of the alternative forms of tourism. The question formulated in the subtitle inscribes it in the scholarship on the changing ideologies of tourism, or ‘moralisation of tourism’ to use a phrase that Butcher (2003) has coined. What makes this book original is the concentration on the ‘online to offline’ technologies, couchsurging.org in particular, which structure the new leisure mobi- lity and contribute to the complexity of its meanings. The book consists of nine chapters, including an introduction by the editors and an after- word by the renowned anthropologist: Nelson Graburn. The geographic scope of the book stretches from Krasnoyarsk in Russia to Brisbane in Australia, and from Tunis in Tunisia to Ho Shi Minh in Vietnam. The attempt to address the geo-political inequalities informing the practices of couchsurfing in such different locations is one of the indisputable strengths of the volume. The methodologies used by the authors range from a http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change Taylor & Francis

Couchsurfing cosmopolitanisms: can tourism make a better world?

Horolets, Anna
Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change , Volume 13 (3): 3 – Jul 3, 2015
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Taylor & Francis
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© 2014, Anna Horolets
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1747-7654
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1476-6825
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10.1080/14766825.2014.928073
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Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, 2015 Vol. 13, No. 3, 275–283 BOOK REVIEWS Couchsurfing cosmopolitanisms: can tourism make a better world? by David Picard and Sonja Buchberger, Bielefeld, Transcript Verlag, 2013, 187 pp., 25.80€ (paperback), ISBN 978-3-8376-2255-3 This book makes an original and valuable contribution to the studies of the alternative forms of tourism. The question formulated in the subtitle inscribes it in the scholarship on the changing ideologies of tourism, or ‘moralisation of tourism’ to use a phrase that Butcher (2003) has coined. What makes this book original is the concentration on the ‘online to offline’ technologies, couchsurging.org in particular, which structure the new leisure mobi- lity and contribute to the complexity of its meanings. The book consists of nine chapters, including an introduction by the editors and an after- word by the renowned anthropologist: Nelson Graburn. The geographic scope of the book stretches from Krasnoyarsk in Russia to Brisbane in Australia, and from Tunis in Tunisia to Ho Shi Minh in Vietnam. The attempt to address the geo-political inequalities informing the practices of couchsurfing in such different locations is one of the indisputable strengths of the volume. The methodologies used by the authors range from a

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Published: Jul 3, 2015

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