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Immersions in cultural difference : tourism, war, performance / Natalie Alvarez.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alvarez, Natalie, 1974- author.
- Series:
- Theater--text/theory/performance
- Theater: theory/text/performance
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Intercultural communication.
- Cross-cultural orientation.
- International relations and culture.
- Performing arts.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, [2018]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- In a time of intensifying xenophobia and anti-immigration measures, this book examines the impulse to acquire a deeper understanding of cultural others. Immersions in Cultural Difference takes readers into the heart of immersive simulations, including a simulated terrorist training camp in Utah; mock Afghan villages at military bases in Canada and the UK; a fictional Mexico-US border run in Hidalgo, Mexico; and an immersive tour for settlers at a First Nations reserve in Manitoba, Canada. Natalie Alvarez positions the phenomenon of immersive simulations within intersecting cultural formations: a neoliberal capitalist interest in the so-called "experience economy" that operates alongside histories of colonization and a heightened state of xenophobia produced by War on Terror discourse. The author queries the ethical stakes of these encounters, including her own in relation to the field research she undertakes. As the book moves from site to site, the reader discovers how these immersions function as intercultural rehearsal theaters that serve a diverse set of strategies and pedagogical purposes: they become a "force multiplier" within military strategy, a transgressive form of dark tourism, an activist strategy, and a global, profit-generating practice for a neoliberal capitalist marketplace.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780472123544
- 0472123548
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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