In recent years there has been a growing interest in the study of hospitality as a social phenomenon. This interest has tended to arrive from two communities. The first comprises hospitality academics interested in exploring the wider meanings of hospitality as a way of better understanding guest and host relations and its implications for commercial settings. The second comprises social scientists using hosts and guests as a metaphor for understanding the relationship between host communities and guests as people from outside the community – migrants, asylum seekers and illegal immigrants.
The Routledge Handbook of Hospitality Studies encourages both the study of hospitality as a human phenomenon and the study for hospitality as an industrial activity embracing the service of food, drink and accommodation. Developed from specifically commissioned original contributions from recognised authors in the field, it is the most up-to-date and definitive resource on the subject. The volume is divided into four parts: the first looks at ways of seeing hospitality from an array of social science disciplines; the second highlights the experiences of hospitality from different guest perspectives; the third explores the need to be hospitable through various time periods and social structures, and across the globe; while the final section deals with the notions of sustainability and hospitality. This handbook is interdisciplinary in coverage and is also international in scope through authorship and content. The ‘state-of-the-art’ orientation of the book is achieved through a critical view of current debates and controversies in the field as well as future research issues and trends. It is designed to be a benchmark for any future assessment of the field and its development.
This handbook offers the reader a comprehensive synthesis of this discipline, conveying the latest thinking, issues and research. It will be an invaluable resource for all those with an interest in hospitality, encouraging dialogue across disciplinary boundaries and areas of study.
1. Introduction: research on hospitality: the story so far/ways of knowing hospitality
Conrad Lashley
Part I Disciplinary perspectives
2. Sociological perspectives on hospitality
Roy C. Wood
3. The geographies of hospitality
David Bell
4. Levinas hospitality and the feminine other
Kim Meijer-van Wijk
5. The philosophies of hospitableness
Elizabeth Telfer
6. The hospitality trades: a social history
John K. Walton
7. Hospitality – a synthetic approach
Bob Brotherton
8. Dinner sharing: casual hospitality in the collaborative economy
Szilvia Gyimóthy
9. Religious perspectives on hospitality
Conrad Lashley
10. Hospitality and social ties: an interdisciplinary reflexive journey for the psychology of hospitality
Marcia Maria Cappellano dos Santos, Olga Araujo Perazzolo, Siloe Pereira and Isabel Baptista
11. Hospitalities: Circe writes back
Judith Still
12. On the hospitality of cannibals
Ruud Welten
13. An Asian ethics of hospitality: hospitality in Confucian, Daoist and Buddhist philosophy
Martine Berenpas
14. Observing hospitality speech patterns
Leanne Schreurs
15. Hospitality, migration and cultural assimilation: the case of the Irish in Australia
Barry O’Mahoney
16. Women experience hospitality as travelers and leaders
Judi Brownell
17. Hospitality employment: the good, the bad, and the ugly
Shobana Nair Partington
18. Consuming hospitality
Peter Lugosi
19. Hospitality and presumption
George Ritzer
20. Liquid hospitality: wine as the metaphor
Sjoerd Gehrels
21. Hospitality, territory and identity: reflections from community tourism in Aventureiro Village, Ilha Grande/RJ, Brazil.
Helena Catão Henriques Ferreira and Aguinaldo César Fratucci
22. Fluid Hospitality in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Bastienne Bernasco
Part III Hospitality through time and space
23. Hunter and gatherer hospitality in Africa
Victoria N. Ruiter
24. The gift theory of Marcel Mauss and the potlatch ritual: a triad of hospitality
Leandro Benedini Brusadin
25. Hospitality, sanitation services and immigration: leprosarium and hostels for immigrants in Brazil
Ana Paula Garcia Spolon
26. Experiencing hospitality and hospitableness in different cultures
Javed Suleri
27. Transcending the limits of hospitality: the case of Mount Athos and the offering of Philoxenia
Prokopis Christou
28. Fifty shades of hospitality: exploring intimacies Korean love motels
Desmond Wee and Ko Koens
29. Hospitality between the sheets: leisure and sexual entertainment for tourists in large urban centres in Brazil
Ricardo Lanzarini and Luiz Gonzaga Godoi Trigo
30. Creating value for all: sustainability in hospitality
Elena Cavagnaro
31. Liberating wage slaves: towards sustainable employment practices
Conrad Lashley
32. Hospitality studies: developing philosophical practitioners?
Conrad Lashley
33. Conclusion: hospitality and beyond...
Biography
Conrad Lashley holds the Professorship in Hospitality Studies in the Academy of International Hospitality Research at Stenden University of Applied Science, the Netherlands. He has held professorial appointments at several UK universities, and regularly makes keynote research presentations in Australia, New Zealand, the USA and Sweden as well as in Great Britain. He is the author or editor of eighteen books, and has published over a hundred papers in refereed research journals and sets of conference proceedings. He is currently co-editor of Research in Hospitality Management and Editor Emeritus of Hospitality & Society. He has worked extensively within the industry and generated commercial income from research and consultancy, as well as in-company management programmes. His research interests are principally concerned with understanding the meanings of hospitableness as a social phenomenon that has significance for commercial provision.
