The concept
What is affective tourism?
Affective Tourism is a concept proposed by Dorina-Maria Buda in her book of the same title: the ways in which affects, emotions and feelings are accessed, felt, experienced and performed in encounters between touring bodies and places.
Drawing on emotional and psychoanalytic geographies, the work asks how tourists are moved by, and move through, places of turmoil, and how those encounters can contribute to understanding, negotiation and peace.
“In-depth understandings of the role of emotions in such places can contribute to conflict negotiation and peace building.”
Fieldwork in the West Bank: tourism at the separation wall.
