Travel Writing and its Re-Imagining Within History and Creative Ethnography

This chapter examines how travel writing has been influential in the past re-thinking of the ethnography and history disciplines. Through a more open and creative approach recognising the style of practitioners such as Michael Jackson and Stephen Muecke within ethnography, and post post-modern theory, the ‘from below’ perspective and the acknowledgement of narrative and multiple voices in history writing, this chapter demonstrates the cross disciplinary usefulness of travel writing when these other areas have faced their own periods of uncertainty. This provides further material to reflect on as travel writing recalibrates in the post-COVID era.