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1 online resource (319 pages) |
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Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility |
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Contemporary geographies of leisure, tourism, and mobility.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures and tables; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Urban tourism and its discontents: an introduction; 2 No conflict? Discourses and management of tourism-related tensions in Paris; 3 The selling (out) of Berlin and the de- and re-politicization of urban tourism in Europe's 'Capital of Cool'; 4 Touristification and awakening civil society in post-socialist Prague; 5 Density wars in Silicon Beach: the struggle to mix new spaces for toil, stay and play in Santa Monica, California |
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6 Contesting China's tourism wave: identity politics, protest and the rise of the Hongkonger city state movement7 From San Francisco's 'Tech Boom 2.0' to Valparaíso's UNESCO World Heritage Site: resistance to tourism gentrification from a comparative political perspective; 8 Tourism provision as protest in 'post-conflict' Belfast; 9 The No Grandi Navi campaign: protests against cruise tourism in Venice; 10 Favela tourism: negotiating visitors, socio-economic benefits, image and representation in pre-Olympics Rio de Janeiro |
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11 Politics as early as possible: democratizing the Olympics by contesting Olympic bids12 Attracting international tourism through mega-events and the birth of a conflict culture in Belo Horizonte; 13 The right to Gaudí: what can we learn from the commoning of Park Güell, Barcelona?; 14 Of artisans, antique dealers and ambulant vendors: culturally stratified conflicts in Buenos Aires' historic centre; 15 The abrupt rise (and fall) of creative entrepreneurs: socio-economic change, the visitor economy and social conflict in a traditional neighbourhood of Shanghai |
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16 The living versus the dead in Singapore: contesting the authoritarian tourist city17 'Fantasies of antithesis': assessing Hamburg's Gängeviertel as a tourist attraction; Index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Novy, Johannes
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| ISBN |
9781317515586 |
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1317515587 |
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