Tourism and the Power of Otherness : Seductions of Difference / Michael A. Di Giovine, David Picard.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Di Giovine, Michael A., Editor.

Picard, David, Editor.

Series:

Tourism and Cultural Change

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tourism--Psychological aspects.

Tourism.

Culture and tourism.

Other (Philosophy).

Difference (Psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 p.)

Place of Publication:

Bristol, UK; Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Channel View Publications, [2014]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This book explores the paradoxes of Self–Other relations in the field of tourism. It particularly focuses on the 'power' of different forms of 'Otherness' to seduce and to disrupt, and, eventually, also to renew the social and cosmological orders of 'modern' culture and everyday life. Drawing on a series of ethnographic case studies, the contributors investigate the production, socialisation and symbolic encompassment of different 'Others' as a political and also an economic resource to govern social life in the present. The volume provides a comparative inductive study on the modernist philosophical concepts of time, 'Otherness', and the self in practice, and relates it to contemporary tourism and mobility.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures

Contributors

1. Introduction: Through Other Worlds

2. Through Other Times: The Politics of Heritage and the Past in the Catalan Pyrenees

3. Calling Upon the Lost Empire: The Evocative Power of Miniatures in a Portuguese Nationalist Theme Park

4. Tourism and Post-socialist Heterotopias: Eastern Europe as an Imagined Rural Past

5. Frozen Vodka and White Skin in Tourist Goa

6. Seducation: Learning the Trade of Tourist Enticement

7. Bargaining under Thatch Roofs: Tourism and the Allure of Poverty in Highland Bolivia

8. Mediterranean Fields of Love: Embodied Encounters between Male Tourism Workers and Female Tourists in a Coastal Town in Turkey

9. Wild Inside: Uncanny Encounters in European Traveller Fantasies of Africa

10. Journeys to the Inner Self: Neo-Shamanism and the Search for Authenticity in Contemporary New Age Travel Practice

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9781845414184

1845414187

9781845414160

1845414160

9781845414177

1845414179

OCLC:

1135591787