ABSTRACT

This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in this book. The book seeks to unravel some of the ways in which thoughts and feelings of how we get through, negotiate, celebrate, suffer, cope with our lives, each other, and the manifold things, contests and contexts of interplay. There are the potentialities of everyday 'micro-politics' in practising alternative relations, human capacities and relationalities, geographies and democratically popular cultures. The complex and flexible notion of 'flirting with space' adheres to potentialities. The importance of nuance in living and gentle politics emerges through considerations of flirting with space. The book notes on the vacuous character of much 'post-human' debate that simply seem to miss the point. It offers a complementary, rather than countervailing consideration of the constitution and performativity of feeling, relationships with individuals and things; and meaning. The book argues that bodily cultures can inform people's purchase on cultural and social changes in the formation of tourism.