Travels in paradox : remapping tourism / edited by Claudio Minca and Tim Oakes.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Minca, Claudio.

Oakes, Tim.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tourism.

Tourism--Social aspects.

Culture and tourism.

Physical Description:

xi, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2006]

Summary:

This innovative volume focuses on tourism through the twin lenses of cultural theory and cultural geography. Presenting a set of innovative case studies on tourist destinations around the world, the contributors explore the paradoxes of the tourist experience and the implications of these paradoxes for our broader understanding of the problems of modernity and identity. This book examines how tourism reveals the paradoxical ways that places are both mobile and rooted, real and fake, inhabited by those who are simultaneously insiders and outsiders, and both subjectively experienced and objectively viewed. The concepts of travel and mobility long have been used to explain modern identity and social behavior, but this work pushes beyond the established literature by considering the ways that place and mobility are inherently related in unexpected, even contradictory, ways. Travel, the international cast of authors contend, occurs "in place" rather than "between places." Thus, instead of offering yet another interpretation of the ways modern societies are distinguished by their mobilities-in contrast to the supposed place-bound quality of traditional societies-the chapters here collectively argue for an understanding of modern identity as simultaneously grounded and mobile. This rich blend of empirical and theoretical analysis will be invaluable for cultural geographers, anthropologists, and sociologists of tourism.

Contents:

Preface: Places and Performances / John Urry vii

Introduction: Traveling Paradoxes / Claudio Minca, Tim Oakes 1

1 Sensing Tourist Spaces / Tim Edensor 23

2 Circulation and Emplacement: The Hollowed-out Performance of Tourism / Mike Crang 47

3 Itineraries and the Tourist Experience / Ning Wang 65

4 Heimat Tourism in the Countryside: Paradoxical Sojourns to Self and Place / Soile Veijola 77

5 Three Trips to Italy: Deconstructing the New Las Vegas / Pauliina Raento, Steven Flusty 97

6 Tourist Places and Negotiating Modernity: European Women and Romance Tourism in the Sinai / Jessica Jacobs 125

7 Re-inventing the "Square": Postcolonial Geographies and Tourist Narratives in Jamaa el Fna, Marrakech / Claudio Minca 155

8 Portable Autonomous Zones: Tourism and the Travels of Dissent / Steven Flusty 185

9 Terror and Tourism: Charting the Ambivalent Allure of the Urban Jungle / Kathleen M. Adams 205

10 Get Real! On Being Yourself and Being a Tourist / Tim Oakes 229.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-273) and index.

ISBN:

0742528758

0742528766

9780742528758

9780742528765

OCLC:

62421241

Online:

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