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This article explores the relevance of dwelling and embodiment metaphorsin tourist studies. These metaphors make possible an account of tourism whichacknowledges the mobile and complex reality of the 21st century whilst neitherdelocalizing nor dis-embodying nor isolating tourists. In proposing such metaphors, Idevelop the possibilities of non-representational theory in tourist studies (Thrift, 1997).This article develops a perspective on tourism as a practical and embodied waythrough which we are involved in the world, we create knowledge and interact withthe physical environment; to put it in Heideggerian terms, a way of being-intheworld, of dwelling in it. This article is thus able to explore the possibilities that ideasof a situated, elusory and expressive body open in tourist studies and considers ade-centred and rhizomatic understanding of tourist agency that neither underminesthe material and non-material networks folded into the human world noroveremphasizes the human action, concealing the inevitably messy human condition.

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This article develops insights into the haptic geographies of sandcastles and sunbathing. The aim is to produce a iivelier account of the beach that incorporates a sense of performativity and enjoyment, breaking with the occulocentrism that dominates sociai sciences. While acknowledging the importance of vision, this paper affirms the centrality of touch and its significance in the production of feeling. My concern is with haptic articulations of the sensible that draw away from a solely visual interpretation of the beach. Touch offers the possibility of bringing life, sensation, and enjoyment back to the beach, unlocking and animating some of its potentialities. Touch also provides a valuable route to reinvest this space with Pau Obrador-Pons texture and praesentia, along with a sense of the creative and the performative. This article, which draws on ethnographic research conducted on the island of Menorca (Spain), analyses two kinds of haptic sensuality: the highly manipulative and playful version of touch enacted in the building of sandcastles and the more elusive tactile experience of sunbathing,