The Impact of Tourism in East Africa : A Ruinous System / Anne Storch, Angelika Mietzner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Storch, Anne, Author.

Mietzner, Angelika, Author.

Series:

Tourism and Cultural Change ; 58

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and culture--Africa, East.

Language and culture.

Sociolinguistics--Africa, East.

Sociolinguistics.

Tourism--Social aspects--Africa, East.

Tourism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 p.)

Place of Publication:

Bristol, UK; Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Channel View Publications, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book explores the relationship between imperial formations and individual encounters at African tourist sites. It examines how encounters between tourists and hosts tend to be constructed along colonial thought lines and shows that ruination is omnipresent in postcolonial tourist settings. This book is open access under a CC BY ND licence.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures and Boxes

Abbreviations

Check-in

1 Boarding

2 Terrible Magical Ways of Healing

3 The Philosophy of Hakuna Matata

4 Karen

5 Highway to Hell

6 Ruins on the Beach

7 Relocation and Relationships

8 On Various Boundaries

9 Hostility on a T-Shirt

10 Movies on Sex Tourism that You Shouldn't Miss

11 The Ancient Speaker

12 Cooking Class

13 Glossy Glossary

References

Index

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-ND 3.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)

ISBN:

1-84541-838-7

OCLC:

1266227903