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Podcast: Tourism Geographies Podcast
Episode: Fairy tourism: negotiating the production of fantasy geographies and magical storyscapes
Description: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14616688.2023.2290662AbstractThis research brings an original anthropological approach to the understanding of how the tourism industry negotiates the construction of elusive, magical geographies. Fairy tourism or ‘fairy hunting’ has been acknowledged since the nineteenth century, but is largely overlooked in tourism literature, despite increasing exposure to fairy motifs through multi-media platforms, including films, gaming, and literature. This study examines fairy festivals using a theoretical framework based on the novel concept of ‘liminal affective technologies,’ (LATS), that are designed to enhance transformative potentiality. An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis method is used to analy...