TY - JOUR
T1 - All at sea
T2 - An auto-ethnography of a slowed community, on a container ship
AU - Symes, Colin
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Travelling by cruise ship is undergoing a renaissance. It is more popular than ever. It represents a return to slowness as a revered aspect of mobility. Journeys are valued for their own sake. This paper examines life aboard a container ship, which is not only slow but also 'visits' ports sans tourist allure. In what is a working not a pleasure space, passengers are left to their own devices, for there is an absence of the organized hedonism that is a feature of cruise ships. On the surface, it is a 'nothing to do' space. Passengers experience time feast not time famine, where the sturm und drang of being 'at sea' assumes particular interest. Using an autoethnographic approach, the temporal and special practices of four passengers travelling on a French container ship from Sydney to Philadelphia are analysed.
AB - Travelling by cruise ship is undergoing a renaissance. It is more popular than ever. It represents a return to slowness as a revered aspect of mobility. Journeys are valued for their own sake. This paper examines life aboard a container ship, which is not only slow but also 'visits' ports sans tourist allure. In what is a working not a pleasure space, passengers are left to their own devices, for there is an absence of the organized hedonism that is a feature of cruise ships. On the surface, it is a 'nothing to do' space. Passengers experience time feast not time famine, where the sturm und drang of being 'at sea' assumes particular interest. Using an autoethnographic approach, the temporal and special practices of four passengers travelling on a French container ship from Sydney to Philadelphia are analysed.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84900723735&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/11745398.2012.670964
DO - 10.1080/11745398.2012.670964
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84900723735
VL - 15
SP - 55
EP - 68
JO - Annals of Leisure Research
JF - Annals of Leisure Research
SN - 1174-5398
IS - 1
ER -