Underwater Hotels

An Imaginative Ethnography

Phillip Vannini, April Vannini (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

150 Seiten

2025
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-96327-3 (ISBN)

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This book chronicles the first research project ever conducted at underwater hotels. Narrating fascinating tales from underwater hotels and shedding light on the provocative perspectives of their designers and temporary inhabitants, this imaginative sensory ethnography will enchant and surprise at every turn, leading readers to wonder whether we humans belong underwater.

Through their peculiar and captivating narratives featuring inquisitive manta rays, nosey trumpet fish, industrious corals, and pizza-delivering SCUBA divers, the authors show how modern-day Atlantis is now a fully realized utopia with the potential to redefine where else we humans can live and how else we can relate to our watery planet and its multiple aquatic lives.

The book appeals to students and researchers in geography, more-than-human studies, architecture, and tourism studies. In doing so, it challenges us to reenvision not only the borders of contemporary tourism and underwater travel but also the very essence of humans as more-than-terrestrial beings.

Phillip Vannini is a professor in the School of Communication and Culture at Royal Roads University in Victoria, BC, Canada. April Vannini is a community-engaged learning coordinator at the University of Victoria and teaches in the School of Communication and Culture at Royal Roads University in Victoria, BC, Canada.

1. Introduction 2. Equarius Hotel: From heterotopia to alloútopia Intermezzo I: Lively commodities 3. Imaginative sensory ethnography 4. The Manta Resort's Underwater Room: Care and ethics in more-than-human tourism Intermezzo II: White Lotus 5. The Muraka: Sea life, more-than-human architecture, and alloútopic imagination Intermezzo III: Less-than-data 6. Jules' Undersea Lodge: On the im possibility of human life underwater 7. Reefsuites: The tourist gaze and beyond 8. But how did you sleep? (Dis- )comfort and the animal gaze 9. Afterword

Erscheinungsdatum	17.10.2025
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Planetary Spaces Series
Zusatzinfo	1 Tables, black and white; 7 Halftones, black and white; 7 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	310 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft
ISBN-10	1-032-96327-1 / 1032963271
ISBN-13	978-1-032-96327-3 / 9781032963273
Zustand	Neuware