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Staging Visitation frames tourism and travel as complex social performances that shape identities, communities, and global imaginaries. This volume proposes "visitation" as a framework that emphasizes the participatory and relational dimensions of travel. While tourism is often pejoratively framed as a commodified or exploitative leisure activity for those with means, its reality is far more nuanced. Tourism stages heritage, provokes encounters across cultural divides, and prompts both visitors and hosts to negotiate values and identities—all while sustaining economies (and the power relations they produce) at global and local scales.
From museums and theme parks to festivals and influencer culture, the essays in this volume trace how transitory encounters—embodied, affective, and historically layered—build travel destinations into theatricalized places. These essays bring theater and performance studies into conversation with cultural geography, sociology, anthropology, and media studies to demonstrate how tourism functions as both a stage and a repertoire for modern life.
Staging Visitation argues that travel is not only about movement across space, but also about the performance of culture itself—its preservation, reinvention, and transformation.
Contents
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Volume Introduction: Staging Visitation
Bryan Schmidt and Weston Twardowski
Section 1
Staging Identity: Self-Making through Visitation
Section Introduction
Joseph Roach
Chapter 1
By Means of Visitation: Tourism and Identity on Spain's Sephardic Way
Mechele Leon
Chapter 2
Manufacturing "The Pura Vida Effect": Costa Rica's Envision Festival, Pure Life, and the Contradictions of Conscious Tourism
Bryan Schmidt
Chapter 3
The Black Flowers of the Walled City: Tourism and the Embodiment of
National Heritage in Cartagena
Henry Castillo
Section 2
Staged Visits: Making Places Perform
Section Introduction
Margaret Werry
Chapter 4
"You've Got a Great Past Ahead of You": Performance and American History at Silver Dollar City Theme Park
Joanna Dee Das
Chapter 5
The World on Display from the Comfort of Home: Covid Olympics and Staging National Identity
Susan Tenneriello
Chapter 6
Brick Lane and Shakespeare's Globe: Street As Performance
Gretchen Smith
Section 3
Virtual Stages: Immersive Imagination
Section Introduction
Susan Bennett
Chapter 7
"This Place is the Bomb": Pacific Theaters of Virtual Militourism from Pearl Harbor to Call of Duty
Janine Sun Rogers
Chapter 8
One-Month Living Broadcast: Vlog Performances and Contested Visitation in Jeju
Youjeong Oh
Chapter 9
Sightseeing Tours and Gendered Performances in Georgian London's Paradisial Gardens
Humberto Garcia
Section 4
All the World's a Stage: Planetary Visitations
Section Introduction
Mary Louise Pratt
Chapter 10
H(a)unting Africa: A Dazzle of Competing Narratives
Megan Lewis
Chapter 11
Dinosaur Encounters: Settler Colonialism and Planetary Time in South Dakota's Black Hills
Scott Magelssen
Chapter 12
Afronauts in the Desert: Planetary Portals and Visitation in Afrofuturist Performance
Weston Twardowski
Bibliography
Index
