The Global Politics of Contemporary Travel Writing

This book brings the 'serious' world of politics to the 'superficial' world of contemporary travel writing.

This collection examines the intersections between the personal and the political in travel writing, and the dialectic between mobility and stasis, through an a

Despite the recent increase in scholarly activity regarding travel writing and the accompanying proliferation of publications relating to the form, its ethical

The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Travel Writing offers readers an insight into the scope and range of perspectives that one encounters in this field of w

What does it mean to think globally? Susan McWilliams argues that to understand politics in our 'new world,' we should revisit one of the oldest themes in polit

With its specific focus on the connections between politics, travel, and travel writing, Not So Innocent Abroad offers a fresh approach to the study of travel l

This book examines a strand of contemporary travel writing that experiments with form, content and the politics of representation. Writers such as Michael Ondaa

Looks at how contemporary travel writing reflects gender, cultural history, and social class

In the 1930s, the discourse of travel furthered widely divergent and conflicting ideologies—socialist, conservative, male chauvinist, and feminist—and the m

War creates brutal landscapes of control and domination that embed historical differences, creating physical legacies of inequality and denial. Contested Spaces