Scarborough based study on bodies’ affective capacities

Saxena, Gunjan

Abstract

This paper conceptualises leisure-seekers’ sociality using Deleuze and Guattari’s framework of Body without organs (BwO). Data, collected in Yorkshire’s coastal town of Scarborough, indicate how the ‘beach’ acts both as a magnet and a protective shell for a whole gamut of ‘intimate social microcosms’. Overall, the value of this study lies in its illustration of bodies’ affective capacities and in particular visitors’ agency in creating new possibilities for perception and experience of tourist sites. In doing so, it urges tourism studies to engage with how leisure-seekers’ bodies enact multiple sensibilities, become ‘bodies without organs’ without determinate form, in the process of experiencing a locality and (re)imagining its place in their lives.

Citation

Saxena, G. (2017). Scarborough based study on bodies’ affective capacities. Annals of Tourism Research, 68, 100-110. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2017.12.002

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Dec 5, 2017
• Online Publication Date: Dec 15, 2017
• Publication Date: 2017
• Deposit Date: Dec 15, 2017
• Publicly Available Date: Dec 16, 2019
• Journal: Annals of Tourism Research
• Print ISSN: 0160-7383
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 68
• Pages: 100-110
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2017.12.002
• Keywords: Tourism; Leisure and hospitality management; Development; Deleuze and Guattari; Body without organs; Beach; Leisure seekers
• Public URL: https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/503599
• Publisher URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160738317301573
• Additional Information: This article is maintained by: Elsevier; Article Title: Scarborough based study on bodies’ affective capacities; Journal Title: Annals of Tourism Research; CrossRef DOI link to publisher maintained version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2017.12.002; Content Type: article; Copyright: Crown Copyright © 2017 Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
• Contract Date: Dec 18, 2017