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Food tourism researchers are increasingly seeking to question why tourists eat animals, and the ethical dimensions of such encounters. The tourist experience has largely been taken as the starting point in this research, influenced by the anthropological origins of this research field. In effect, human-animal relations, for the most part, remain absent from such interrogations. In this paper we seek to engage with critical tourist scholars who are increasingly turning to post-humanist and more-than-human framings, to move beyond a fixation with human agency in understanding how and why we eat animals in tourism settings. Multi author participant observation is utilised to examine a touristic encounter with smalahove, a traditional Norwegian dish of smoked and boiled sheep’s head. Through this case study we argue that future food tourism research ought to shift focus beyond the tourist experience, so as to fully understand the processes through which animals become eaten. In exploring the ways that human-smalahove entanglements provoke consideration for how humans and animals might be-together-otherwise, we call on other food tourism researchers to consider what sorts of other food tourism encounters might prompt reflection and how such ethical reflections might be leveraged in food tourism ventures.

Bourdieu’s interrelated concepts of habitus and field have been deployed to theorise the unreflexive consumption practices characterising much of consumers’ everyday lives. Less is known, however, about the disruptive experience when habitus and field suddenly misalign- which Bourdieu terms ‘hysteresis’. We address this lacuna by studying smalahove (sheep’s head) consumption involving participant observation at a Norwegian smalahove farm—an unsettling space within the food consumption field that may challenge many consumers’ habitual ways of seeing, smelling, hearing, touching and tasting meat. Our core contribution lies in introducing a dynamic conceptualisation of hysteresis, demonstrating how it fluctuates in consumption environments; intensifying and diminishing in intensity as the gaps between habitus and field open and close.

This paper contributes to debates on the use of cultural events to regenerate urban areas. Cultural geographers have identified the influence of such events in informing urban belonging, whilst being cautious towards the politics associated with claims of diversity and inclusion. Yet, what seldom features in such geographic accounts are the ways events influence, and are influenced by, inclusions and exclusions beyond their temporal and spatial confines, including how territorial processes flow in and across both online and offline spaces. In this paper, we thus adopt Brighenti’s (2010) relational approach to territoriality to reveal the fluid and heterogeneous ways the Independent Manchester Beer Convention renders processes of inclusion and exclusion within, and beyond, the time and space of the craft beer event. Utilising fieldwork observations at the 2018 and 2019 conventions and 4,300 social media posts associated with the 2019 convention, we identify how particular subjectivities come to be included and excluded in different ways through the event. We argue that recognition regarding the fluidity and heterogeneity of territorial boundaries, and the role of affordances in shifting such boundaries, are imperative in the utilization of cultural events in generating inclusions through cultural-led regeneration.

City atmospheres are increasingly engineered through multi-sensory manipulations to render places attractive in a competitive global landscape. Reflecting the wider ‘festivalisation of cities’, cultural festivals play an important role in generating such urban atmospheres. However, as Allen’s concept of ‘ambient power’ recognises, spaces and places can (co)produce seductive ambiences of inclusion by insidiously working on people’s senses, in ways that extend belonging to some, whilst leading certain undervalued social groups to feel excluded. This chapter explores atmosphere, ambient power, and (not) belonging through two craft beer festivals in Manchester, U.K, through engagement with participant observations and over 5,000 social media posts, photographs and videos. We reveal how craft beer festival atmospheres are informed by pre-existing power relations, past experiences, and anticipations; informing – and informed by ­– a broader urban politics of belonging. And yet, we also illustrate how inclusions and exclusions of specific festivals are not fixed or predetermined; rather, the dynamic spatial, temporal, and multi-sensory affordances of each craft beer festival also influence the ways through which belonging unfolds differently. Taking insights from both cases, the chapter concludes by reflecting on how more inclusive urban atmospheres might be crafted.

This paper contributes to debates on the use of cultural events to regenerate urban areas. Cultural geographers have identified the influence of such events in informing urban belonging, whilst being cautious towards the politics associated with claims of diversity and inclusion. Yet, what seldom features in such geographic accounts are the ways events influence, and are influenced by, inclusions and exclusions beyond their temporal and spatial confines, including how territorial processes flow in and across both online and offline spaces. In this paper, we thus adopt Brighenti’s (2010) relational approach to territoriality to reveal the fluid and heterogeneous ways the Independent Manchester Beer Convention renders processes of inclusion and exclusion within, and beyond, the time and space of the craft beer event. Utilising fieldwork observations at the 2018 and 2019 conventions and 4,300 social media posts associated with the 2019 convention, we identify how particular subjectivities come to be included and excluded in different ways through the event. We argue that recognition regarding the fluidity and heterogeneity of territorial boundaries, and the role of affordances in shifting such boundaries, are imperative in the utilization of cultural events in generating inclusions through cultural-led regeneration.

Background: In estrogen receptor (ER) positive early breast cancer (EBC) adjuvant endocrine therapy (AET) is crucial to reduce recurrence and mortality. Previous studies have shown that adherence to AET is lower than expected and could negatively affect outcome. Since the year of 2000, BC patients in Sweden are treated in accordance to national guidelines. Treatment is offered at a low cost for the patient. The aim of the study was to estimate the adherence to AET in Sweden by regions and age groups. Methods: Women with a first primary EBC diagnosis 2008-2010 were identified through the Swedish Cancer Registry (SCR). Individual tumour and treatment data were retrieved from the Swedish National Breast Cancer Registry (SNBCR). Patients with ER negative tumours, small tumours (≤ 10 mm) and metastatic disease was excluded from the study since there were no indication to AET. Likewise, were individuals with AET registered to be administered by a third part excluded. Dispensed treatment from pharmacies was obtained through the Swedish Prescription Registry and medication possession rate (MPR) was calculated as number of dispensed doses divided by treatment duration in days. Good adherence to treatment in a patient was set at MPR ≥ 80 %. Adherence was calculated for 3 and 5 years. Results: Twenty-one thousand sixteen (21 016) individuals with a first primary BC between 2008 and 2010 was identified through SCR of which 20 596 were registered in the SNBCR. A total of 10 176 met the inclusion criteria in the study. Adherence after 3 years was 88.0 % and after 5 years 82.5 %. Adherence differed between regions in Sweden and was positively associated with age at diagnosis between 41-74 years. Urban areas had a lower adherence than rural areas (80.7 % vs 83.6 %; p= <0.001). Conclusions: Adherence to AET in Sweden was good, although there were differences by age and urban and rural areas. Further studies are needed to identify factors affecting differences in adherence, with t, Supplement: S (May 20, 2019) Meeting Abstract: 523

Residing with the exponential growth of gastronomy tourism research, a number of review articles have examined the relationship of gastronomy and tourism from distinct thematic and disciplinary perspectives. What remains absent is a comprehensive overview that encapsulates the interdisciplinary dimensions of this area of research. In response, this study comprehensively investigates gastronomy tourism literature utilizing a network and content analysis, with an aim to map the main subject areas concerned with gastronomy tourism and relations between varying subject areas. In doing so, themes determining gastronomy tourism and focus for future exploration are identified. The review findings suggest that the trajectory of gastronomy tourism research is characterized by the dominance of "tourism, leisure, and hospitality management" and "geography, planning, and development." Three recommendations are proposed to assist development of gastronomy tourism research: increased dialogue across subject areas, development of critical and theoretical approaches, and greater engagement with sustainability debates.

Formulated through feminist geography, this thesis takes a visceral approach to unbound festival scholarship. It does so through examining return journeys to Australia’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer and intersex Pride event, the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras (herein, Mardi Gras). Rather than prioritise the timeframe of events, as is often evident within festival scholarship, the thesis adopts a visceral approach that demands examining the embodied, performative and processual dimensions of return journeys, as they entangle with the social and cultural dimensions of Mardi Gras. Advancing methodological discussion around online storytelling, this thesis employs a multi-method approach, termed travel ethnographies. Travel ethnographies involve social media, alongside more conventional tools such as interviews, solicited diaries and observant participation. Three lines of inquiry are extended in this thesis, through three fieldwork assemblages, to advance arguments around the ways festivals spill into, and are affected by, the everyday. First, belonging and identity for the Queensland Dykes on Bikes (an all women motorcycle chapter) are shown to coalesce through the preparation for, and experiences of, mobile bodies-onmotorcycles; suggesting belonging and identity are bound up with bodily movements that are related to, yet wider than, social powers that frame Mardi Gras. Second, the affective politics of collective travel with Goulburn Valley Pride (a regional Victorian Queer Collective), on a bus to and from Mardi Gras, troubles oppositional distinctions between politics and tourism. Third, the commodification of queer Pride is explored in, through and beyond the event of Mardi Gras by investigating the embodied encounters of a solo traveller from New Zealand; here, attention is granted to the ways meanings and experiences taking place during Mardi Gras are always bound up with broader politics and social worlds. Taken together, the three lines of i

Geographers have long been alert to the ways space matters to knowledge production and the stories participants choose to share. Despite such understandings, however, geographers remain surprisingly absent from discussions regarding the ways these concerns play out across online spaces. This article reflects on the employment of one online space, Facebook, as a site for storytelling in research exploring return journeys to two Australian festivals - the Big Day Out and Mardi Gras Parade. This article argues that insight over longer temporalities and shifting spatialities afforded through Facebook facilitates heightened understandings of the nuances, repetitions, differences and paradoxes of identities, encounters, and politics. Facebook, therefore, has the potential to allow for different ways of knowing that cannot be ascertained in more orthodox research spaces. Moreover, the slipperiness of conceptualisations of privacy and consent in this space draws attention to the necessity of understanding consent as fluid and ongoing, rather than antecedent to fieldwork commencement. Crucially, however, reconceptualisations of privacy and consent in this space expose potential obstacles university ethics committees may meet in responding to research moving online.

This article contributes to growing scholarship on fluidity, embodiment and the politics of festivals. Such scholarship is crucial to understanding belonging as an embodied, visceral experience. Extending on this work, this paper seeks to draw further attention to the fluidity of festival boundaries and experience, by exploring how belonging holds the potential to become detached from location, and be manifested forcefully through movement to and from events. I focus on a group of six Dykes on Bikes members, who rode motorbikes 1800 kilometres as part of a larger group from Brisbane to the Sydney Mardi Gras Parade. Through this exploration I illustrate how attention to the visceral experience of belonging on the move allows geographers to address what holds individuals 'in place' so to speak, when attachment takes place through movement. In doing so I argue that the visceral is crucial to understanding belonging as mobile because it provides a framework to stand against universalised discourses that locate belonging within the temporal and spatial confines of events.

The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras festival is here again. The festival's pinnacle and most attended event, the Parade, will see hundreds of thousands flocking to Sydney's Oxford Street this Saturday for a mix of politics, revealing costumes, buffed bodies, flamboyance and celebration. As is tradition, the sounds of more than 100 Dykes on Bikes revving their engines and blasting their horns will mark the beginning of the party. For the Queensland Dykes on Bikes, however, Mardi Gras is about more than leading the parade and attending parties. Much interest in Mardi Gras is given to its historical legacy, to commodification and to questions of political identity. Seeking to build on these conversations, for the past three years I have been documenting the personal stories of those who travel vast distances each year to attend this event. As part of this research, in a new article, published in Australian Geographer, I sought to examine the complex relations between the Queensland Dykes on Bikes and the Mardi Gras Parade.

Book Reviews: Reshaping gender and class in rural spaces, by edited by Barbara Pini and Belinda Leach, Burlington, Ashgate Publishing, 2011, 266 pp., £30.00 (hbk), ISBN 978-1-4094- 0291-6, Gender in a Global/Local World Series.

This paper focuses on embodied geographies of alcohol to rethink the weekend. We explore the weekend as it is produced via the mutually constitutive relationships between time, space and bodies. Drawing on qualitative research undertaken in Bega, New South Wales, Australia with 23 young women, we offer a critical analysis of how alcohol shapes the bodily, social, spatial and temporal boundaries that interpose knowing the weekend. We illustrate how alcohol mediates the felt and performative dimension of the embodied geographies that configure the weekend. We argue that young women's bodies and spaces may be understood as sites where the pleasures and pain of alcohol may rupture or make resilient bodily, spatial, social or temporal boundaries through which the weekend makes sense.