ABSTRACT
The opening chapter introduces the concept of slow and specifies the phenomena of slow food, cities and tourism to particular times and places. The larger aim of the chapter is to locate these movements within a broader socioeconomic framework. It does so largely by referring to the academic work on late modernity and individuation and the broader rise of lifestyle movements in wealthy, post-industrial societies. These movements are best understood as reactions against the unfulfilled promise of speed in late modernity. Slow amounts to an effort to recapture meaning and control in an ever more accelerating world.
Michael Clancy: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5608-5256">orcid.org/0000-0002-5608-5256
