Travels in paradox : remapping tourism / edited by Claudio Minca and Tim Oakes.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Minca, Claudio, editor.

Oakes, Tim, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tourism.

Tourism--Social aspects.

Culture and tourism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (299 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2006]

Summary:

This innovative volume focuses on tourism through the twin lenses of cultural theory and cultural geography. Presenting a set of innovative case studies on tourist places around the world, the contributors explore the paradoxes of the tourist experience and the implications of these paradoxes for our broader understanding of modern identity as simultaneously grounded and mobile. The book examines how tourism reveals the paradoxical ways that places are both mobile and rooted, real and fake, inhabited by those who are simultaneously insiders and outsiders, and both subjectively experienced and

Contents:

Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface: Places and Performances John Urry; Introduction: Traveling Paradoxes Claudio Minca and Tim Oakes; 1 Sensing Tourist Spaces Tim Edensor; 2 Circulation and Emplacement: The Hollowed-out Performance of Tourism Mike Crang; 3 Itineraries and the Tourist Experience Ning Wang; 4 Heimat Tourism in the Countryside: Paradoxical Sojourns to Self and Place Soile Veijola; 5 Three Trips to Italy: Deconstructing the New Las Vegas Pauliina Raento and Steven Flusty

6 Tourist Places and Negotiating Modernity: European Womenand Romance Tourism in the Sinai Jessica Jacobs7 Re-inventing the ""Square"": Postcolonial Geographies and Tourist Narratives in Jamaa el Fna, Marrakech Claudio Minca; 8 Portable Autonomous Zones: Tourism and the Travels of Dissent Steven Flusty; 9 Terror and Tourism: Charting the Ambivalent Allure of the Urban Jungle Kathleen M. Adams; 10 Get Real! On Being Yourself and Being a Tourist Tim Oakes; Bibliography; Index; About the Contributors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-273) and index.

ISBN:

1-4616-4637-5

OCLC:

869090364