The tourist state : performing leisure, liberalism, and race in New Zealand / Margaret Werry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Werry, Margaret.

Series:

A Quadrant Book

A Quadrant book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Leisure--New Zealand.

Leisure.

Liberalism--New Zealand.

Liberalism.

Māori (New Zealand people)--Social conditions.

Māori (New Zealand people).

National characteristics, New Zealand.

Tourism--Political aspects--New Zealand.

Tourism.

Tourism--Social aspects--New Zealand.

New Zealand--Race relations.

New Zealand.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (356 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

No longer the dreary sheep farm at the end of the world, the New Zealand of the new millennium is a hot global ticket, heralded for its bicultural dynamism, laid-back lifestyle, and scenery extraordinary enough to pass for Tolkien's Middle Earth. How this image was crafted is the story The Tourist State tells. In a series of narratives that address the embodied dimensions of biopolitics and explore the collision of race, performance, and the cultural poetics of the state, Margaret Werry exposes the real drama behind the new New Zealand, revealing how a nation was sold to the world-and to itsel

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Note on Orthography; Introduction: Toward a Performance Theory of the State; 1. The State of Nature: Governmentality, Biopoetics, Sensation; 2. The Class Act of Guide Maggie: Cosmopolitesse, Publics, and Participatory Anthropology; 3. Translation, Transnation: Theatrical Politics and Political Theater in the American Pacific; 4. Traficking Race: Policy, Property, and Racial Reformation in the Tourist State; 5. Altered States: Global Hollywood, the Rise of Wellywood, and the Moving Image of Race; Conclusion: Living in a Tourist State; Acknowledgments; Notes; Glossary; A; H; I

KM; P; T; U; W; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4529-4671-X

0-8166-7844-8

OCLC:

785400126