Tourist utopias : offshore islands, enclave spaces, and mobile imaginaries / edited by Tim Simpson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Simpson, Tim, editor.

Series:

New Mobilities in Asia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tourism--Social aspects.

Tourism.

Tourism--Social aspects--Southeast Asia.

Tourism--Social aspects--China--Macau.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (228 pages) : color illustrations, photographs

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, [Netherlands] : Amsterdam University Press, 2017.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Released on the 500-year anniversary of the publication of Sir Thomas More's Utopia, this volume seeks to adapt and apply More's fecund imagination to the contemporary leisure landscape. The contributors to this volume theorize and analyze a variety of "tourist utopias"--A nascent socio-spatial form crucial to a post-industrial global economy. From Disney World to Dubai, "Middle Earth" to Marina Bay, Macau to Abu Dhabi, these sites share common characteristics that include their respective status as "spaces of exception"; entrepreneurial governance regimes that rely on cooperation among state and non-state actors; transient, multinational populations; immaterial and affective forms of labor and consumption; superlative and iconic architecture; and economies devoted to such leisure activities as shopping, gambling, and spectacle. These locales are not only popular destinations for migrant workers and mobile tourists from around the globe, but also serve as cultural laboratories for testing new formats and protocols of an emergent post-Fordist form-of-life.

Contents:

Prolegomenon

1. Mapping Tourist Utopias / Tim Simpson

2. The Zone Is on Vacation / Keller Easterling

Enclaves

3. Instant Cities in the Jungle: Fantasies of Modernity for Whom? / Pal Nyiri

4. After Utopia: Post-Colonial Macau and Post-Socialist Chinese Tourists / Tim Simpson

5. Choreographing Singapore's Utopia by the Bay / Daniel P.S. Goh

6. Cultural Utopia: Abu Dhabi's Island of Happiness and the Development of a Cultural Enclave / Yasser Elsheshtawy

Imaginaries

7. Disney's Utopian Techno-Futures: Tomorrow's World That We Shall Build Today / Angela Ndalianis

8. Tourism and a Virtual Bulgaria / Benjamin Kidder Hodges

9. Sublimity, Sovereignty, and Sophistry: The Trouble in Middle-earth / Margaret Werry

10. Macau Utopics: A Photo Essay / Adam Lampton

Archipelagoes

11. From Dubai to Mount Athos: Carving Islands of Fear and Hope / Veronica della Dora.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 19, 2017).

ISBN:

1-04-079078-X

1-003-70839-0

1-04-079668-0

90-485-2701-5

9781003708391

OCLC:

981702255