Hazel Andrews

Feeling at home: embodying Britishness in a Spanish charter tourist resort.

The study of the tourist subject has been largely absent from the social science literature in tourism studies. Where discussions of the practice of tourism have taken place these have mainly centred around notions of the gaze. This perspective ignores the embodied and felt nature of the tourist experience and other senses such as smell and hearing. This article moves the discussion forward. The analysis is based upon ethnographic fieldwork in charter tourist resorts in Mallorca, Spain. In such a context the situated body is central to an understanding of tourist practices and can be examined to understand the constructions of national and gendered identities.

“Tits Out for the Boys and No Back Chat” Gendered Space on Holiday

This article explores the dynamics between the structure of overarching gendered social relations and the practice of gendered identities in the cultural space of one particular tourist destination, Magaluf on the Mediterranean Island of Mallorca. Although there have been many studies concerning constructions of gendered identity in tourism, these have tended to examine sexual relations rather than everyday touristic practice. The data are drawn from several months of ethnographic fieldwork, which involved the production of maps of the resort. The position of the researcher is used in a reflexive analysis of the maps postfieldwork. The article demonstrates how the resort is encoded in the assignation of place names with an idealized type of masculinity that excludes women from the public sphere and furthermore how elements of touristic practice serve to reinforce ideas of women as sexual objects and belonging to the domestic sphere.

Hospitality and eroticism

Purpose – This paper aims to provoke discussion and reflection on the role of the erotic in the cultivation of spaces of hospitality, and to provide a theoretical consideration of the structural similarities of hospitality and eroticism.Design/methodology/approach – With reference to classical studies as well as debates in the social science literature, the paper starts by examining some of the theoretical and philosophical underpinnings to hospitality and eroticism. It then develops this analysis by considering examples drawn from ethnographic studies of “traditional” hospitality settings as well as of commercial hospitality environments of charter tourism.Findings – The main outcome of the discussion is to demonstrate the structural relations between hospitality and eroticism. By situating the analysis within a broad theoretical and ethnographic context, it is shown that the erotic has historically functioned as a socially‐binding and communicative mode of social intercourse that, while undermined by th...

Consuming hospitality on holiday

Wood (1994a) has argued that there have been few attempts to understand what the concept of hospitality actually means. For the purpose of this chapter the definition supplied by Telfer will be used, with the addition of the provision of entertainment. She states ‘[wle can define hospitality as the giving of food, drink and sometimes accommodation to people who are not regular members of a household’ (1996, p.83). This accords with the meaning offered in the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary . Implied in Telfers description is the idea of an outsider, a stranger. She goes on to say that through the meeting of the needs of the stranger, bonds of trust and interdependency are established. These bonds are based on ideas of reciprocity and exchange, which have been explored in relation to gift giving by Malinowski (1967) and Mauss (1954). The basic tenet of their arguments is that gift exchange structures and represents the material and moral life of the community, establishing relationships based on mutual obligation. In this respect another basic maxim to an understanding of hospitality is established – that of turning a stranger into a friend.

Porkin’ Pig goes to Magaluf:

This article discusses the symbolic role of pigs in the Mediterranean charter-tourist resort of Magaluf, Mallorca, based on periods of participant observation. The significance of pigs has been explored in relation to other cultures, notably Papua New Guinea, but work on the animal’s importance in British culture is less well documented. Taking Baudrillard’s concept of a system of objects, this article links the pig to other objects of material culture and demonstrates how the pig represents aspects of touristic identity and practice and can also be seen to speak for elements of British identity.

‘Why am I putting myself through this?’ Women football coaches’ experiences of the Football Association's coach education process

ABSTRACT In recent years, there has been a significant increase in the provision of formal coach education. However, research has repeatedly demonstrated how coach education has had a limited impact on the learning and development of coach practitioners. To date however, these investigations have avoided female coach populations. Ten women football coaches who had recently completed various association football coach education courses participated in this study. Following the interpretive analysis of 10 semi-structured interviews the findings revealed high levels of gender discrimination and inappropriate cultural practice. The womens experiences are discussed in line with the Bourdieuian notions of social acceptance, symbolic language and power. The women coaches provided a number of recommendations for future coach education provision, which in turn, may help to improve the experiences for those women who participate in the coach education process.

Mapping My Way: Map-making and Analysis in Participant Observation

In this chapter I show how the processes of map-making in my ethnographic fieldwork helped to enable me to overcome difficulties I encountered as part of the practice of participant observation; tofind my way in an arena in which I felt unable to orientate and situate myself socially, culturally and spatially. In addition, I also discuss how being in possession of the maps I made influenced my post-field analysis. I am therefore concerned with the practice of cartography as part of ethnographic fieldwork and with maps as a research method. The chapter considers why the making of maps became an important aspect of my fieldwork, how they were drawn and turned into a publishable format, as well as their subsequent use in understanding my field notes.

Afterword: Men’s Touristic Practices: How Men Think They’re Men and Know Their Place

This book is a welcome contribution to the study of tourism, particularly in the way in which it brings together and foregrounds in one place issues relating travel and tourism to men, ideas of masculinity and male sexuality. At the same time, thinking through tourism (Scott and Selwyn, 2010) to examine these concepts and constructs provides a fruitful seam to mine in terms of illuminating the issues themselves. It is not a particularly profound point to observe that tourism requires people — although perspectives in the study of tourism that are driven by management/business concerns would at times do well to remember that — and that in this study of people the actions, dispositions and impacts of and on men will necessarily be considered. For example, Ulla Wagner (1977) explored how young, single Gambian men formed casual relationships with visiting Scandinavians, and that, on occasions, the ‘romance’ blossomed and led to the men migrating to the tourists’ home country, where the relationships were subject to stresses and strains that threatened their viability. Phylis Passariello (1983) noted the hegemonic masculinity displayed in the form of loud, drunken behaviour by Mexican men when visiting the beach on the Pacific Coast of Chiapas at the weekends. More recently, Linda Malam (2004) examined the performance of masculinity on the beaches of Thailand.