Mundane welcome: Hospitality as life politics

Lynch, Paul

Abstract

This research explores the experience of mundane welcome and elaborates the emergent concept, ‘hospitality life politics’ (HLP), referring to hospitality practises invoked by the individual in order to negotiate the world on a day-to-day basis. Themes emerging from the ethnographic study are presented: sense of welcome; welcome habitus; ontological search for trust and security; welcome anchorages; the welcome assemblage; welcome as social oil; non-welcome; HLP as agency. Consideration is given to the theoretical implications of HLP, and the possibilities of hospitality in terms of creating healthy societies and its important role in advancing understandings of tourism.

Citation

Lynch, P. (2017). Mundane welcome: Hospitality as life politics. Annals of Tourism Research, 64, 174-184. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2017.04.001

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Apr 2, 2017
• Online Publication Date: Apr 21, 2017
• Publication Date: 2017-05
• Deposit Date: Apr 4, 2017
• Publicly Available Date: Apr 22, 2019
• Journal: Annals of Tourism Research
• Print ISSN: 0160-7383
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 64
• Pages: 174-184
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2017.04.001
• Keywords: Welcome, sense, habitus, ontological search, anchorages, agency
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/824942