BODY SPACE: A NEW PERSPECTIVE OF TOURISM DESTINATION SPACE RESEARCH

CAI Yi; MA Mao-dan; YANG Yang; GONG Zi-yue; PAN Jin-yu

doi:10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2023.06.007

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HUMAN GEOGRAPHY ›› 2023, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (6) : 55-61. DOI: 10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2023.06.007

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BODY SPACE: A NEW PERSPECTIVE OF TOURISM DESTINATION SPACE RESEARCH

CAI Yi¹, MA Mao-dan¹, YANG Yang², GONG Zi-yue¹, PAN Jin-yu³

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The body, embedded in the metaphor of social power relations, is the foundation of spatial hierarchy, subjective activity, and practice. However, there is a dearth of academic follow-up on the exploration of the body space of tourist places, compared to the fruitful studies on tourists' embodied experience. The bodyrelated issues of the residents of host communities have not received attention, and the relationship between body and space has not been effectively connected. This study reviews the relevant theories and empirical evidence of body geography, systematically sorts out the progress of body research in the field of tourism, and accordingly suggests a research prospect. The study argues the following. 1) Body geography needs to confront and transcend the effects of the mind-body duality, valuing the relationship between the physicality, mobility, and spatiality of the body, moving from structural and action opposites to inter-construction. 2) Multi-approach studies need to be incorporated into body research to establish a closer connection between the two at the methodological level. 3) Based on further integrating the relationship between body and space, the study of the body should reveal the microscopic practice of "being as space" from the perspective of the macroscopic "body in space" production, and construct the macro from the micro. 4) As the "barometer" and "indicator" of social and cultural changes, the exploration of community residents' body practices is of great significance for the interpretation of social and cultural changes in tourist destinations; thus, future research should pay more attention to the residents of destinations as vital stakeholders.

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body space / structure / action / macroscopic / microscopic

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CAI Yi, MA Mao-dan, YANG Yang, GONG Zi-yue, PAN Jin-yu. BODY SPACE: A NEW PERSPECTIVE OF TOURISM DESTINATION SPACE RESEARCH[J]. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2023, 38(6): 55-61 https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2023.06.007

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