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Slow Books: Book Towns as Third Places

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Abstract

Frank examines the juncture between book towns as attractive destinations and the emergence of the Slow Movement in the late 1980s to further explain how book towns developed as sites of cultural renewal. The chapter explores bookshops and book towns as third places that encourage relaxation, creative interaction, inclusivity and community unification. Frank emphasizes that book festivals and fairs in book towns operate as secular forums for considering not only book-related issues, but broader societal and ethical concerns. She identifies them as places deserving of policy focus for their value of historic heritage, as cultural tourism drawcards and as destinations for nomadic travellers that heighten their social and economic potential. The chapter incorporates case studies of book towns in Wigtown, Scotland and Featherston, New Zealand.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    The initial phase of the Open Book Project run by Wigtown Festival Company concluded on 31 July 2015, but the project is continuing as an Airbnb holiday experience that at the time of writing was booked ahead until mid-2019 (Turpin, personal interview 2017).

  2. 2.

    Inglis (2000) appears to mean avoiding others in the sense of people en masse.

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    The Slow Movement : Making a Connection, http://www.slowmovement.com/place.php

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    The Fell Centre Rail System was used to enable specially fitted trains to negotiate the steep grade of the Rimutaka incline safely while hauling large loads (Gould, personal interview 2017).

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    Joel Becker is CEO of the Australian Booksellers Association.

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    This trend is also referred to as amenity migration or lifestyle migration (Benson and O’Reilly 2009). Regional Australia has experienced significant changes in population and employment since the early 1900s. Refer to Hugo’s (1996) work on counter-urbanization and ABS (2004) data on changing Australian social trends. While Garnett and Lewis (2007, p. 29) argue that much of this evidence is anecdotal, with frequent references in the political and media spheres to a ‘sea change’ or ‘tree change’, there is now a widening body of research on this phenomenon. Refer, for example, to Kijas (2002), Murphy (2002), Osbaldiston (2010, 2012, 2013), Ragusa (2013), Burnley and Murphy (2004), Dowling (2004) and a number of reports on the challenges of coastal growth by the National Sea Change Taskforce.

  7. 7.

    While grey nomads can be compared with American snowbirds—older Americans who drive long distances in self-drive vehicles to winter in warmer climates—Onyx and Leonard distinguish that Australian senior travellers actively avoid being ‘organized’ in the way older Americans are in American holiday resorts (2005, p. 67). Their more liberated, nomadic tendencies, motivated by a desire to retire early and ‘escape unpalatable bureaucratic agencies in their work life’, contrast with the snowbirds simply avoiding cold winter climates.

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