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Title Travels in paradox : remapping tourism / edited by Claudio Minca and Tim Oakes
Published Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2006]
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 286 pages) : illustrations
Contents Places and performances / John Urry -- Introduction: traveling paradoxes / Claudio Minca, Tim Oakes -- Sensing tourist spaces / Tim Edensor -- Circulation and emplacement: the hollowed-out performance of tourism / Mike Crang -- Itineraries and the tourist experience / Ning Wang -- Heimat tourism in the countryside: paradoxical sojourns to self and place / Soile Veijola -- Three trips to Italy: deconstructing the new Las Vegas / Pauliina Raento, Steven Flusty -- Tourist places and negotiating modernity: European women and romance tourism in the Sinai / Jessica Jacobs -- Re-inventing the "square": postcolonial geographies and tourist narratives in Jamaa el Fna, Marrakech / Claudio Minca -- Portable autonomous zones: tourism and the travels of dissent / Steven Flusty -- Terror and tourism: charting the ambivalent allure of the urban jungle / Kathleen M. Adams -- Get real! On being yourself and being a tourist / Tim Oakes
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 objectively viewed. This rich blend of empirical and theoretical analysis will be invaluable for cultural geographers, anthropologists, and sociologists of tourism."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-273) and index
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Subject Tourism.
Tourism -- Social aspects
Culture and tourism.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
Culture and tourism
Tourism
Tourism -- Social aspects
Tourismus
Soziologie
Form Electronic book
Author Minca, Claudio
Oakes, Tim
ISBN 9781461646372
1461646375