Culture and society in tourism contexts / edited by A.-M. Nogués-Pedregal.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nogués-Pedregal, A. M.

Series:

Tourism social science series ; v. 17.

Tourism social science series, 1571-5043 ; v. 17

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tourism--Social aspects.

Tourism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 p.)

Place of Publication:

Bingley : Emerald, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book strives to understand the social and cultural dynamics in Mediterranean tourist destinations through ethnographic examples from Greece, Spain, Egypt, France, Malta and Crete. Migrants, tourists and new residents with different nationalities and personal motivations converge and share with locals in the same locations and/or create new places that mushroom all over the territories (i.e. urbanisations in the coasts). As this occurs the practices and meanings that give sense to daily life seem to blur traditional dichotomic notions such as leisure and labour, residents or locals, nationals or foreigners. The work of several social scientists, from varied backgrounds, over numerous years, using multiple research techniques to observe cultures and societies as they occur in daily practices is documented here. This book underlines the importance of focusing on the relations among the relations, that is, not simply looking at only one of the possible social pairs among these groups (i.e. tourists-locals; tourist-new residents etc.) but at how the presence of all the groups affect both the whole social and cultural processes and the relations among them.

Contents:

Introduction / A.-M. Nogués-Pedregal

ch. 1. Instrumental cosmopolitanism : the 'valorization' of heritage and sociality in Mediterranean cities / Julie Scott

ch. 2. Touring the frontier : reinventing the eastern Adriatic for tourism / Emilio Cocco

ch. 3. When the desirable and the feasible converge through tourism space / A.-M. Nogués-Pedregal

ch. 4. Negotiating Marrakech : postcolonial travels in Morocco / Lauren Wagner, Claudio Minca

ch. 5. Building tourism in Costa Blanca : second homes, second chances? / Antonio Aledo, Jens Kr. Steen Jacobsen, Leif Selstad

ch. 6. Across social categories and boundaries : transnational mobilities and interculturality / Regina Römhild

ch. 7. Borders of (in)visibility in the Greek Aegean / Heath Cabot, Ramona Lenz

Conclusion : sociocultural nature and context of tourism / A.-M. Nogués-Pedregal.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record

ISBN:

9781283734363

1283734362

9780857246844

0857246844

OCLC:

818819018