[Air-L] new edited volume: Cultures of Authenticity

[Marie Hermanova]

Dear colleagues,

(as usual, apologies for cross-posting)

we're happy to announce that the edited volume Cultures of Authenticity is
out now and available as e-book and hardback from Emerald:
https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/doi/10.1108/9781801179362


The sections on social media, popular culture and political communication
could be of particular interest to members of this list.
(contents here:
https://books.emeraldinsight.com/page/detail/cultures-of-authenticity/?k=9781801179379
]

Abstract below and please feel free to get in touch with any feedback or
questions!

best wishes,

Marie

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*Heřmanová, M.
<https://www.emerald.com/insight/search?q=Marie%20He%C5%99manov%C3%A1>, Skey,
M.
<https://www.emerald.com/insight/search?q=Michael%20Skey> and Thurnell-Read,
T.
<https://www.emerald.com/insight/search?q=Thomas%20Thurnell-Read>
(Ed.) Cultures
of Authenticity, Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp.
231-245. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80117-936-220221017
<https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80117-936-220221017>*


Authenticity has become a buzzword for our times. And a new collection,
Cultures of Authenticity, provides the first inter-disciplinary examination
of authenticity, by analysing the concept in relation to travel and
tourism, branding and marketing, popular culture, social media and
political communication. Drawing on cases from around the globe, including
Taiwan, Denmark, USA, China and Russia, established scholars and early
career researchers have brought together the latest empirical and
conceptual scholarship addressing authenticity and its centrality to
debates about contemporary culture, media and society. In this way, the
authors are able to pinpoint the growing significance of authenticity in
the contemporary era, the various ways in which different disciplines
approach the topic, and possible ways of advancing the field across
disciplines.



As one of the editors of the book, Dr Thomas Thurnell-Read explained, 'as
authenticity has been so prominent in various areas of academic research,
we saw there was scope for a volume bringing together approaches from a
range of disciplines such as media and communications, politics, cultural
studies, sociology, tourism studies and heritage. The book showcases the
similarities and differences in how different disciplines engage with the
concept of authenticity and examine how it is claimed and who can claim to
be authentic or not'.


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*Dr Marie Hermanova*

Postdoctoral researcher - Gender & Sociology Department, Institute of
Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences

Editor-in-Chief, Gender and Research Journal  <https://www.genderonline.cz/>

Lecturer - Undergraduate Program in Central European Studies, CERGE-EI
(Charles University)

@MarieHermanova

+420 603 206 655

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