Since the mid-1990s, affect has become central to the social sciences and humanities.
Debates abound over how to conceptualise affect, and how to understand the …

Light pervades the world, and when it is not light, darkness emerges and is combated by
electric illumination. Despite this globally shared human experience in which spaces appear …

Tourism-hospitality businesses sometimes market consumer experiences in terms of
“enchantment,” although this phrase is often used vaguely or variously. Therefore, we …

In this paper I stage an encounter between two concepts that have become popular
placeholders for a broad concern with a politics of life: affect and biopower. Through …

This paper considers the atmospheric qualities of illuminated space, grounding notions of
affect in investigating the longstanding autumnal event of Blackpool Illuminations. I consider …

This paper contains a narrative overview of the past 20-years of environmental research on
anomalous experiences attributed to “haunted house.” This exercise served as a much …

Existing dark tourism literature has explored various aspects of interpretation, including
challenges in balancing interpretation efforts with concerns for historical accuracy, and …

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the mediating role of tourist satisfaction and the
moderating roles of perceived playfulness and perceived flow in the relationship between …

This paper replies to Kong's (2010) lament that geographers of religion have not sufficiently
intervened in religious studies. It advocates 'grounded theologies' as a rubric by which to …

In recent writings the concept of absence has been used to question the reach of
phenomenological accounts of the human-world relation from a deconstructionist …