Extraordinary Places Research Articles

Joseph Conrad in the eyes of Kazimierz Wierzyński: Fearless of the Boundless and Familiar with the Infinite

Kazimierz Wierzyński (1894-1969) is now considered to be one of the greatest modern Polish poets. He was born in Drohobycz (which is now in western Ukraine) and studied literature and philosophy in Cracow and Vienna. During the interwar years he lived in Warsaw, after which for several years (1939-1941) he lived as a wartime refugee before spending more than twenty years in the United States. An émigré for the rest of his life, he finally settled in London, where he died in 1969. Wierzyński’s poetry – like the works of Joseph Conrad – exhibits a particular sensibility to nature (perceived as a living organism) and the outside world, which is full of extraordinary places, objects, people and phenomena that invite us to reflect on the deeper meaning of our existence as human beings. Both writers share a stoic response to adversity and a fidelity to conscience and to the heritage of European culture. In his 1924 sketch entitled “Conrad’s Great Silence,” Wierzyński saw Conrad above all as a writer who yearns for the infinite, whose “maritime reflection is reproduced in his work.” Twelve years later, in a narrative poem entitled Lord Jim (forming part of his 1936 collection entitled Kurhany), Wierzyński brought the eponymous character of Conrad’s novel into the pantheon of the Polish collective imagination. The fate of Lord Jim, who is tormented by nostalgia for his native England (to which he cannot return) would seem to foreshadow that of the émigré poet whom Wierzyński himself was soon to become. In the titular poem of Wierzyński’s wartime collection Róża wiatrów (The Wind Rose – 1942), Conrad appears as a “role model” for all Polish wartime refugees and émigrés, who, like castaways, search for their own guiding light “in the Conradian sky” – a light that could help them find a safe haven where they could live and work in their own artistic realm without the need to care about literary fashions. This poem has been translated into English (under the title The Compass Rose) by Mary Phelps (Kazimierz Wierzyński, Selected Poems, New York: Voyages Press, 1959). In the opinion of the author of the present article, this translation fails to correctly convey certain key images and allusions which enrich the meaning of the poem and which connect it with the poet’s own personal situation as an émigré writer.

Rule by Metrics

Abstract We live in societies in which an ever-growing array of activities in a range of fields are assessed, controlled and governed according to quantitative techniques. This paper focuses on processes grounded on quantitative tools (e.g. scores, indicators, rankings, algorithms) that are used in order to measure the performance of processes, people or organizations. Such processes are referred to in this paper as ‘legal metrics’. We explore how different legal systems and sectors rely on legal metrics, and develop a twofold argument. On the one hand, we argue that performance-based quantification often qualifies as a form of regulatory intervention. On the other hand, we contend that performance-based measures are always adopted and applied in legal contexts that react differently to the quantification turn. Both sides of this picture have largely been overlooked by comparative lawyers, even though they imply looking for law in extraordinary places and appraising a variety of legal manifestations in different settings. Understanding which forms of quantitative measures are widespread, in which sectors and regions, made by whom and producing what regulatory effects, is a research task that could (and in our opinion should) be of interest for all comparative law scholars.

Why some call the “worst” what most consider the “best”?: an analysis of tourist complaints at the wonders of the world

PurposeThis research explores why tourists are dissatisfied in places considered “wonders of the world”. The authors ask if the place does not match visitors' expectations or if other factors spoil the experience.Design/methodology/approachThe authors analysed the lowest-rated reviews of these wonders on TripAdvisor. The authors identified the main causes of complaints and the problems tourists faced. The authors grouped the complaints into categories and used CoDa.FindingsThe results indicate that dissatisfaction does not stem from unmet expectations regarding the monument itself, but rather from other factors related to the quality of the tourist service.Practical implicationsThe findings of this research can be implemented in those tourist spots that, despite their global popularity, have considerable proportions of unhappy visitors, not due to the attraction itself, but to shortcomings in its administration.Originality/valueThis study provides a deeper insight into the causes of complaints about some of the most renowned monuments, regarded as extraordinary places, where high satisfaction levels would be anticipated. It also contributes theoretically to the literature on customer complaints in tourist places.

The content of complex psychedelic experiences resulting from inhalation of N,N-dimethyltryptamine

AbstractAimThis study examines narratives describing complex psychedelic experiences after smoking N,N-dimethyltryptamine.MethodsThe narrative accounts examined here were gathered from a variety of online sites and analyzed in order to discover themes, categories and patterns in the phenomenon of the resulting psychedelic experiences.ResultsSubjects reported seeing complex and unusual visual and synesthetic phenomena, leaving this world and entering into extraordinary places, encounters with a variety of strange entities, interactions with unusual objects and a wide variety of powerful feelings. The general categories of Places, Objects, Entities and Feelings were found in the phenomena experienced by people who smoked N,N-Dimethyltryptamine. These provided a framework within which more detailed subcategories were found and the range of most frequent to least frequent experiences were identified.DiscussionWhile DMT experiences are commonly described by people smoking N,N-dimethyltryptamine as indescribable, unique to everyone and taking place in a single domain called Hyperspace or the Hyperdimension, this research found distinct subcategories of frequently visited Places as well as frequently encountered Entities, Objects and Feelings. From these a more comprehensive understanding can be developed of the unusual and profound experiences resulting from inhalation of N,N,-Dimethyltryptamine.

80 “Minutes away, worlds apart”: The changing imagination of the Boston Harbor Islands

The Boston Harbor Islands are a historically urban archipelago. Since its founding in 1630, the city of Boston has embedded them firmly in its urban infrastructure. The islands have served as sources of wood and building stone, common pastures, sites of harbor defenses and lighthouses, and as ‘dumping grounds’ for materials, businesses, and institutions undesirable in the city proper. In the middle third of the twentieth century, however, Bostonians imagined their city’s harbor islands in a new way: one that has obscured most of their long human history and has cast them in the role of a natural landscape fundamentally different from the city. This changing perception resulted in the islands recently becoming places reserved almost exclusively for conservation and recreation. This article explores the way in which a certain kind of island narrative that frames islands as isolated, extraordinary places of mystery and adventure came to dominate the imagination of Boston’s previously mundane urban islands.

Terracottas from the Maslyny Settlement on the Chora of Tauric Chersonesos

In the article the finds of terracotta figurines from the excavations of the Hellenistic settlement of Maslyny in North-western Taurica (excavations by V. O. Latysheva) are analyzed. The terracotta collection contains striking specimens of ancient coroplastic. The figurines illustrate the religious life of the population, including the worship of cults of a family nature. All terracottas were found on the territory of the living and utility homesteads of the settlement. Most of the figurines are located in a room at the south tower, which, according to the interior and related material, had several functions. Other statuettes were also found in the non-ordinary rooms and this text also indicates their cultic purpose. Sanctuaries in rooms at the tower were known before at Chersonesos chora. Such practice of private sanctuaries corresponds to the choice of the most prominent and extraordinary places for arranging public sanctuaries of polis. Terracottas of Eros Thanatos, doves, and female figurines are connected with the cult of Aphrodite. One of three Erotes is decorated with red ribbons crossed on his chest. Such adornment is peculiar for Aphrodite images and not known on terracottas of this type. Protomes hanged on the wall and doves hanged to the ceiling, as well as female bust serving for a thymiaterion illustrate the variety of religious practices conducted by the habitants. A tympanon held by Nike reminds of mystery cults. The remains of ivy wreath on a Tanagra type figurine and a tympanum in the hands of Nika remind of Dionysus cult. The figurines are dated, according to the general chronology of the site, not earlier than the third quarter of 4th—3rd c. BC. Some statuettes were made in Tauric Chersonesos, where similar cults are traced during the Hellenistic period. Terracottas from Maslyny settlement find the closest analogies at the sites of the North-western Black Sea region, including Olbia and Callatis. This fact allows tracing the relation between Tauric Chersonesos and that region

Yearnings for Guácharo Cave: affect, absence, and science in Venezuelan speleology

As a member of Venezuela’s first national society of cave exploration and science (speleology), Ramón Alberto Hernández (1926–2009) participated in the exploration and survey of Venezuela’s famous Guácharo Cave in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Despite his key contributions to the knowledge of this cave and many others in the country, his contributions have received little attention. With an ethnographic account of his last visit to Guácharo Cave in 2008 as focus, this article offers a glimpse into Venezuela’s geographies of science at an important historical moment in the relation among individuals, the nation, science, and modernity. It does so from Hernández’s vantage point, as he yearns to reach a particular point inside of the cavern, a point where his life and the lives of other cave explorers who overshadowed his speleological contributions, the cavern, and my own history become entangled. Building on scholarship that emphasizes absence and hope as important aspects of experience, I focus on this yearning, this emergent, relational, and transformative capacity that animates and constitutes not just these entangled histories and identities but also beings and the cave itself. In the process, I illustrate the ways scientific knowledge and national modernity are co-produced. Beyond Hernández, beyond caves, this exploration reminds us of the need to (1) examine the ways affective attachments are formed in/with extraordinary places and (2) widen our understanding of materiality and presence to encompass absence. Finally, this work illustrates the centrality of yearnings in fieldwork and writing.

Antimicrobial Activity of Monoramnholipids Produced by Bacterial Strains Isolated from the Ross Sea (Antarctica).

Microorganisms living in extreme environments represent a huge reservoir of novel antimicrobial compounds and possibly of novel chemical families. Antarctica is one of the most extraordinary places on Earth and exhibits many distinctive features. Antarctic microorganisms are well known producers of valuable secondary metabolites. Specifically, several Antarctic strains have been reported to inhibit opportunistic human pathogens strains belonging to Burkholderia cepacia complex (Bcc). Herein, we applied a biodiscovery pipeline for the identification of anti-Bcc compounds. Antarctic sub-sea sediments were collected from the Ross Sea, and used to isolate 25 microorganisms, which were phylogenetically affiliated to three bacterial genera (Psychrobacter, Arthrobacter, and Pseudomonas) via sequencing and analysis of 16S rRNA genes. They were then subjected to a primary cell-based screening to determine their bioactivity against Bcc strains. Positive isolates were used to produce crude extracts from microbial spent culture media, to perform the secondary screening. Strain Pseudomonas BNT1 was then selected for bioassay-guided purification employing SPE and HPLC. Finally, LC-MS and NMR structurally resolved the purified bioactive compounds. With this strategy, we achieved the isolation of three rhamnolipids, two of which were new, endowed with high (MIC < 1 μg/mL) and unreported antimicrobial activity against Bcc strains.

Acceptance of the Society of Economic Geologists Silver Medal for 2014

Ladies and gentleman: This is a great honor. I feel very lucky to have a career as a geologist, especially in economic geology. It was Rick Sibson who pointed out to me that geology is the most exciting thing you can do with your clothes on. He’s right. The many interesting geologists with whom I have shared company with and the many extraordinary places I have visited have been my reward. To be the recipient of this Silver Medal is extra special. I have some people I want to acknowledge, but to keep it short, the list has been trimmed to represent a small group of unsung heroes. These are the geoscientists who have influenced my work in powerful ways over the years. Before I do, I want tip my hat to two well known gentlemen, Jeff Hedenquist and Noel White, who opened doors, made introductions, guided me in the field, reviewed my work, supplied a surfeit of edits, and shared passionate discussions about epithermal deposits and ore-forming processes. I also want to express appreciation to all my collaborators, whose names appear as co-authors on publications. Special thanks are …

Pengaruh Visual Storytelling Komik Asing pada Komik Indonesia Terbitan PT Elex Media Komputindo Tahun 2004-2008

In Indonesia, especially in the decade of 2000s, Japanese comic style was adapted and mimicked by Indonesian comic artists that tried to resurrect Indonesian comics industry that collapsed in the 1980s era. These comics were published by PT Elex Media Komputindo. There are possibilities that these comic artists indirectly also influenced by American and European comics imported and published in Indonesia at the end of 1980 decade. At the same time, this is an era where these comic artists have possibilities of great significant visual input before Japanese comics influenced them in the 1990s. So, the American and European comics could possibly had an impact for local comic artists.The research was done by defining visual storytelling theories before having an insight of the influence of foreign comics to the local comics. These theories would serve as a defining frame for American, European, Japanese comics to describe the influence on Indonesian comics. Some Indonesian comics published by PT Elex Media Komputindo at 2004-2008 span were used as case studies.From the research studies it had been discovered that American comics have the tendencies to visualize ideal form of human being in heroic acts. European comics have the tendencies to visualize everyday, ordinary characters doing adventures in extraordinary places. Japanese comics have the tendencies to visualize a journey story of a warrior in having his or her skills improved with in depth personal storytelling.Indonesian comics published by PT Elex Media Komputindo at 2004-2008 span had tendencies to be extensively influenced by Japanese comics. It could also be suggested by the restraining Japanese comics format proposed to the comic artists by the publisher. But on the other hand, Japanese comics were populer during 2000s decade, making the Japanese comics the main comic references for the comic artists. The research also discovered that American and European comics that were read also give some minor influences for the comic artist.

What's New on Rapa Nui: Te Kuhane o te Tupuna – The Spirit of the Ancestors film released

What's New on Rapa NuiTe Kuhane o te Tupuna – The Spirit of the Ancestors film released Antoinette Padgett (sources: www.mahatu.cl and www.elcorreodelmoai.com) The documentary film Te Kuhane o te Tupuna has been officially released, with a showing on September 24 at Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) in Santiago. Directed by Leonardo Pakarati of Mahatua Productions, and produced by Paula Rossetti, the production of the film was enhanced by winning the 13th Concurso de Desarrollo de Proyectos para Cine in 2011 and by a grant from the Fondo Audiovisual del Consejo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes in 2014. The film chronicles a Rapanui grandmother and child in search of ancestral objects containing mana, or power that was geographically torn from where it belonged when the objects were removed from the island. It also touches on the political and social movement alive on Rapa Nui today. The grandmother Noe tells her granddaughter Mika the story of the moai Hoa Hakananai'a, removed from the island over 100 years ago and never returned, and about other objects taken from the island that possessed the supernatural power of their ancestors, which now has been weakened. Noe believes that as a result, there are problems on the island today that include the Rapanui distrust of each other and the Chilean State. She believes one way to regain the lost mana is to bring back the spirit of Hoa Hakananai'a to the island. She feels that the moai, housed in a museum in London, is lost in the museum environment, where the temperature and lighting are alien and that he is crying to return to the island. Noe wants to see this moai before she dies, but because illness prevents her from traveling, she asks Mika to go with her grandfather Bene, a prestigious sculptor on the island. They do not want to miss the opportunity to visit and pay homage to these objects from their culture, and are convinced that this trip will bring back the sacred and restore the peace and understanding that is lacking today. The two travel to the Quai Branly Museum in Paris and to the British Museum in London, where hundreds of objects from Rapa Nui are housed. There they see Hoa Hakananai'a in the museum environment, removed from his special place at the ceremonial center of 'Orongo. Click for larger view View full resolution The film includes scenes of curators talking about the importance of the objects from Rapa Nui in their collections; the president of the council of elders of Rapa Nui describing how objects on the island were removed without the consent of its people; and the director of the Museo on Rapa Nui handling replicas of pieces and lamenting the removal of the original objects from the [End Page 64] island. The most talented sculptors on the island use images from books as the models for their carvings, while dreaming of seeing those objects in person. This documentary portrays a journey in search of lost mana, but also records the political and social movement alive on Rapa Nui today, seeking to vindicate its own value, reclaiming land and objects that give meaning to one of the most complex and extraordinary places in the world. The trailer can be viewed at: http://www.mahatua.cl/trailer.html Increased tension between Rapa Nui and Chile (source: intercontinentalcry.org) The Indian Law Resource Center in Washington D.C. has filed a request for protection orders with an international human rights body on behalf of the Rapa Nui people as a result of increased tension between Rapanui and Chileans. Leonardo Crippa, senior attorney in the Washington, D.C. office of the center stated that "four prominent Rapa Nui leaders were unjustly arrested and jailed for trying to exercise their right of self-determination and their right to protect their sacred sites. The repressive measures aimed at disabling the Rapa Nui Parliament must stop." In September, Rapanui rights advocate Santi Hitorangi addressed the 30th session of the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, seeking international support for Rapa Nui's right of...

Gornergrat and Jungfraujoch – two exciting destinations for tourism and research

After having been made accessible by two of the first cog railways in Europe more than 100 years ago, Gornergrat and Jungfraujoch became two extraordinary places: both are well known worldwide as exciting tourist destinations, and at the same time they are unique research sites. This article illustrates this duality in relation with the International Foundation HFSJG.

Wild hope: on the front lines of conservation success

Wild Hope takes readers to extraordinary places to meet conservation's heroes and foot soldiers - and to discover the new ideas they are generating about how to make conservation work on our hungry and crowded planet. The journey starts in the floodplains of Assam, where dedicated rangers and exceptionally tolerant villagers have together helped bring Indian rhinos back from the brink of extinction. In the pine forests of the Carolinas, we learn why plantation owners came to resent rare woodpeckers-and what persuaded them to change their minds. In South Africa, Andrew Balmford investigates how invading alien plants have been drinking the country dry, and how the Southern Hemisphere's biggest conservation program is now simultaneously restoring the rivers, saving species, and creating tens of thousands of jobs. The conservation problems Balmford encounters are as diverse as the people and their actions, but together they offer common themes and specific lessons on how to win the battle of conservation-and the one essential ingredient, Balmford shows, is most definitely hope.

Buildings, landscapes, and memory: case studies in historic preservation

Buildings, Landscapes, and Memory: Case Studies in Historic Preservation explores historically and critically the historic preservation movement in the United States. Analyzing ten extraordinary places, this provocative analysis of historic preservation's past and future will transform contemporary understanding of the movement, examining assumptions about why history, heritage, and place should matter. It ranges broadly from a discussion of the commemoration of place in the Marquis de Lafayette's triumphal tour of the United States in 1824-25 to speculation about the cultural and political import of interpreting history on EPA Superfund toxic waste sites. Thinking critically about preservation requires also thinking critically about its opposite: destruction. The book treats the movement to conserve the Hudson River Palisades from destruction at the hands of trap rock quarrymen as well as the effort to save Dutch-American homesteads that stood in the path of development in Brooklyn. It explores the intersection between race, culture, and preservation in the 1940s effort of African Americans to preserve the Mecca Flats in Chicago, an apartment building that was the subject of popular blues music and that was threatened by Mies van der Rohe's designs for the Illinois Institute of Technology. Focusing on the relationship among tradition, preservation, and modern design, Buildings, Landscapes, and Memory explores the making of Eero Saarinen's Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Arch on the historic Mississippi riverfront in St. Louis as well as the tension between tradition and modern design at Thomas Jefferson's University of Virginia, declared a World Heritage site in 1987. Engaging early efforts to build an economy on preservation and heritage tourism, the book also looks at the creation of Virginia's historic highway marker program in the 1920s.

On Performative Encounters and the Marketing of Identities: The Portrayal of Souks in North African Francophone Literature

In this essay I examine the portrayals and functions of the North African literary marketplace, or souk, as a platform of transgender exchange, identity building, and encounters between male and female characters in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century works by a number of North African Francophone writers. Looking at a range of texts by such writers, including Swiss-Russian novelist Isabelle Eberhardt; Algeria's Assia Djebar, Yamina Mechakra, and Ghania Hammadou; Moroccos Tahar Ben JeIloun, Mohamed Choukri, Abdelhak Serbane, and My Seddik Rabbaj; and Tunisian novelist Albert Memmi, I hope to show that entrenched binaries such as male/female, public/private, seller/buyer, city/country and local/tourist are inadequate to describe the North African literary souk given its socioeconomic complexity and the mix of people it attracts - men, women, and children, from rich to poor, from the hustler to the regular worker. The Maghrebian Francophone literary souk offers a platform of what I call performative because they are characterized by a distinctly Bakhtinian, carnivalesque, and unruly spirit. The marketplace is ever changing, celebratory in spirit, and marked by a suspension of all hierarchical rank, privileges, norms, and prohibitions . . . the true feast of time, the feast of becoming, change, and renewal . . . hostile to all that was immortalized and completed (Bakhtin 1968, 10). In this colorful and bustling environment, all market participants, both male and female characters, have the opportunity to join the spectacle and ideally become active traders as they occupy this exhilarating, public space and add to the open-ended possibilities it offers by celebrating their creativity and shrewd inventiveness. In the Maghreb, two kinds of souks exist: centuries-old rural souks that take place on a weekly basis for purposes of commerce, and urban, permanent souks that are usually situated in the medina. Souk, or souq (in Arabic), is defined as an urban covered market that includes an array of boutiques and workshops and a rural weekly street market where all kinds of goods, including livestock, vegetables, fruit, spices, clothing, and cookware, can be bought or sold (Benzakour, Gaadi, and Queffelec, 305). As Jean-Louis Miege writes, souks are much more than transient stores; they are privileged places for transactions, encounters, conflict resolution, and sometimes even political negotiations (1999, 99). While the French usage of souk often suggests disorder and chaos - because this is precisely the way it continues to be perceived by Westerners - the actual souks are indeed organized, ruled by restrictive and strictly observed codes and customs, an environment in which misdemeanors are severely sanctioned. For instance, vendors at souks are segregated by product categories or goods, with butchers traditionally removed as far as possible from the rest of the market, because the nature of their product - dead animals - is believed to attract hordes of evil spirits called jnun (Huffman 1967, 82). Souks have a large potential for upheaval because they are extraordinary places of socialization, places that attract men and women, city dwellers and peasants. While today, the caravans of yore have been replaced by trucks, the souk remains a key element of rural life, attracting weekly peregrinations from peasants, so-called fellahs living in remote locations (Miege 1999, 100). However, gender divides continue to be enforced in some geographical areas, as, for instance, in the Moroccan Rif area, which features exclusively female souks, small weekly markets that prohibit access to men. Even though certain souks are segregated, these specifically female souks allow women to celebrate their womanhood and sense of solidarity by conversing and engaging in communal activities such as dancing and s tory telling. In numerous Francophone North African texts, the souk represents an ideal place for unruly behavior, as exemplified by the mating of animals or the presence of brothels where women sell their bodies voluntarily to earn money or to avoid being locked up in a harem. …

Ambient Thinking: Or, Sweating over Theory

Ambient Thinking: Or, Sweating over Theory

City of heavenly tranquility: Beijing in the history of China

The great city of Beijing, capital of China from the ninth century, was for a millennium one of the most extraordinary places on earth. At a time when London, Paris, or Rome had only several hundred thousand residents, Beijing held over a million. This book tells the history of this great city, and through it provides a highly engaging summary history of China. In the summer of 1997, President Jiang Zemin made a decision to destroy Beijing. There was no announcement, no explanation given, nor any attempt made to justify his decision. Even those working as architects only became aware of what was happening when it was already too late. Expertly moving between historical analysis and reportage, Jasper Becker describes the impact of this systematic destruction, a unique telling of the city's history that encapsulates both the grandeur of its creation and the tragedy of its demise.

Being ordinary in extraordinary places: Reflective practice of the total situation in a total institution

This paper examines a ‘Foulkesian type’ Balint group for psychiatry trainees set in a high secure forensic hospital. Within a Balint group, group processes and dynamics are not examined. Deviation from this format is construed as resistance, and destructively getting in the way of the primary task. This paper reports on a case‐based reflective practice group operating on a more Foulkesian group analytic model and argues that the revised principles of method proposed here – paying attention to context; group processes; and creating an atmosphere where group curative factors are in play – can help trainees to sustain an emotional reservoir for their patients. Further, these principles do not get in the way of the primary task but can add to an understanding of the individual transference and counter‐transference issues, and can place these in context within the organization and society. This is particularly important in total institutions such as forensic units. Clinical material from this group is used to support this claim.

Convergence And A Case Of Pulmonary Angiosarcoma

INTRODUCTION Case reports are a time-honored way for physicians to share knowledge in cases that are especially rare, interesting, or instructive. A case report typically involves only the care of one patient and therefore often appears to represent an isolated endeavor. Most cases, however, are not isolated events but rather a convergence of multiple forces. To illustrate this, I have received permission from a patient to identify him in this case discussion. “Convergence” is defined in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language as “the act, condition or quality of converging or approaching the same point from different directions; tend towards a meeting or intersection”. This case report is a story of extraordinary convergence, of people and places, of hope and happiness.

De‐exoticizing Tourist Travel: Everyday Life and Sociality on the Move

Tourism is traditionally treated as an escape from everyday life and tourism theory is concerned with extraordinary places. Tourism and everyday life are conceptualized as belonging to different ontological worlds. The former is the world of the extraordinary while the latter is one of the ordinary. This interdisciplinary review article argues that this separation is flawed by examining research that shows how leisure travel, tourism and everyday life intersect in complex ways. It begins with a conceptual discussion of the everyday, which works as the theoretical foundation for the article. Then the article outlines how everyday routines and conventions inform tourism performances: much traditional tourism revolves around socializing pleasantly with one’s co‐travelling family and friends, while more and more tourism concerns visiting friends and family members living elsewhere. The conclusion discusses what consequences an everyday life perspective has for future tourism research.