Russian Women Traveling: A Sociocultural Perspective
Consumer Behavior in Tourism and Hospitality Research
ISBN: 978-1-78714-691-4, eISBN: 978-1-78714-690-7
Publication date: 25 July 2017
Abstract
This study increases understanding of the influence of Russian culture and society on travel practices during Soviet times and now, through the subjective experiences of Russian women. Based on the life-history narratives concerning travel of Russian women who lived in the USSR and worked for the government, the study explores features of traveling during Soviet and Russian times: norms and rules, gender aspects, Russianness and habitus. Both culture and governmental restrictions and societal rules affected how women traveled in Soviet times. This study demonstrates how historical and social contexts and habitus were significant for women in the past and continue to be so in the present, as well as how they have affected these women’s travel practices. By drawing on social reality, gender literature, Bourdieu’s concept of habitus, and sociohistoric patterning of consumption from the research domain of consumer culture theory, this study seeks to fill the gap in understanding the significance of these aspects for travel practices.
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Citation
Miettinen, E. (2017), "Russian Women Traveling: A Sociocultural Perspective", Consumer Behavior in Tourism and Hospitality Research (Advances in Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research, Vol. 13), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 39-58. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1871-317320170000013003
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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