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This book invokes the radical potentialities of ´untidiness´ to envision alternative arrangements of social life and hospitality. Instead of trying to manage sustainability or tidy up tourist situations, the authors embrace the messiness of human relations and argue for more creative, embodied and ethical ontologies of tourism and mobility.

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1. Introduction: Alternative Tourism Ontologies 2. Camping In Clearing; Jennie Germann Molz 3. Paradise With/Out Parasites ; Olli Pyyhtinen 4. Towards Silent Communities; Soile Veijola 5. Unlearning Through Hospitality; Emily Höckert 6. Messing Around With Serendipities; Alexander Grit 7. Conclusion: Prepositions and Other Stories

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Soile Veijola is Professor of Cultural Studies of Tourism at MTI, University of Lapland, Finland.

Jennie Germann Molz is Associate Professor of Sociology at College of the Holy Cross, USA.

Olli Pyyhtinen is Professor of Sociology at the University of Tampere and Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Turku, Finland.

Emily Höckert is a Researcher at MTI, University of Lapland, Finland, and the University of Helsinki, Finland.

Alexander Grit is Research Lecturer at Stenden University, The Netherlands and Senior Research Fellow at the Managing Science, Technology and Knowledge Research Group, University of Leicester, UK.

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