Bøger af Phil Smith

Writing as Cecile Oak, mythogeographer Phil Smith offers a vivid portrait of South Devon, packed with startling detail, in the form of a series of walks. 'Anywhere' is an adventure AND the first mythogeographical survey of a place, its landscape, buildings, history and people. It's also a lesson in how to be/walk in your own city or countryside

Dealing with walking, this title presents an account of the author's walk across the heart of the English countryside in the footsteps of Edwardian oak tree planter Charles Hurst. It provides a series of theoretical investigations into the underpinnings of resistant walking.

A book about despair, climate change, zombie films, multiple apocalypses, the everyday, city-dwelling, zombies, walking and walk-performance, imperialism, sex, zombie literature, refugees, popular culture and zombies.

This is the definitive guide to Counter-Tourism, except that Counter-Tourism has a low opinion of definitive guides. So it's more like an equivocal misguide. It includes dozens of detailed Counter-Tourism 'tactics' plus the thinking behind Counter-Tourism, its academic and philosophical background, and its roots in film, music and literature.

This practical, accessible and far-reaching guide to making site-specific theatre and performance emphasises the diversity of approaches to the practice, and explores key principles of space and site.

An email conversation between a noted poet.walker and a noted performance.walker about being temporarily prevented from walking 'normally' by illness/surgery. Their reflections cover cultural perceptions and personal values associated with walking, personal anecdotes, philosophical reflection, practices for daily-life and an alphabet of falling.

A book about developments in walking and walk-performance for enthusiasts, practitioners, students and academics. walking's new movement is intended for anyone who makes, or wants to make, walking art or walk-performances - and for anyone interested in psychogeography, radical walking, drift and derive, site-specific performance, and the use/abuse of public space in the shadow of Jack the Ripper, Jimmy Savile and many others.

"e;I'm bursting to say how beautiful, bewildering and breathtaking this book is. I don't want it to end...maybe it never does..."e; - 5-star reader's reviewThis is a book for urban explorers, imaginative walkers, ambulant youngsters, difficult drifters, artists of the path less travelled, mythogeographers, psychogeographers, situationists and all the restless. Phil Smith author of 'Mythogeography', 'On Walking' and the 'Counter-Tourism' books, member of Exeter-based Wrights & Sites, well-known as Crabman, drifter and walker/performer and prolific playwright has written an extraordinary first novel - a mythogeographic novel.In 'Alice's Drives in Devonshire', he embodies in a modern fairy tale his preoccupations with the inner and outer worlds of psychogeography - bringing them together to describe the possibilities that offer themselves up to us when we live and walk and dream without our usual blinkers."e;Can a city fall to bits one day and put itself back together the next?I think so, but I am crazy. So why should you believe me? Dad says it's OK to be mad. Bad is the problem.And the city is bad. I saw its badness. For one day its glass was everywhere like broken teeth after a fight between lions and sharks. Big buildings leaning on each other like drunk dinosaurs. The new shopping centre was a cave full of smoke. And everyone was frightened of each other.But I wasn't frightened. I could see that between the pieces of glass were shining gaps. And in the biggest building were passageways and tunnels and I could see that that was the good city. The city of holes and caves. Between the bad was the good, but only if you knew that before you looked."e;Readers' reviews:"e;This is a funny, sad, touching, horrifying, hopeful and riveting read about a child walking mythogeographical terrain to find their Dad. You may well find reflections of your selves in these pages, because this is a book about Everything."e;"e;I just finished reading Alice's Drives in Devonshire - what a great story! I spent several lovely hours in the disappeared world, invisible, 'being marked on a different map'. Thanks so much!"e;

Phil Smith - playwright, walk-performance artist and author (Mis-Guides, Mythogeography, Counter-Tourism) uses his retracing of WG Sebald's walk round East Anglia to introduce a unique kind of hyper-sensitised walking. His exemplary walk goes beyond 'wandering around looking at stuff' and shows how every walk can be art, revolution and pilgrimage.

Working on your Master Thesis or Ph.D. Dissertation, have you ever felt the limits of your methodological toolbox when it comes to grasping the complexity or messiness that emerges when you begin scratching the surface of your drawn up research agenda?As an experienced researcher, are you preoccupied with the ways your actions in doing and thinking research have affected and continue to affect your research outcomes?Have you looked for new types of doing research but felt discouraged by traditional perceptions of good and bad data sources or you have looked for alternative paths to creating better and richer research materials while acknowledging the (co)creative aspects of knowledge production?If you can recognize the above or similar issues, you might find the present book of inspiration.Tourism Methodologies is aimed at researchers who share our desire to engage with new and innovative approaches to an already well established repertoire of tourism methodologies. The book deals with a wide variety of themes relating to qualitative tourism research but, in particular, it addresses how the issues of meaning making, mobility and performance are integrated elements in the research process.