| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 255 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Futures, new perspectives for cultural analysis |
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Futures, new perspectives for cultural analysis.
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| Contents |
Other than myself/my other self / Trinh T. Minh-ha -- Discovering new worlds : politics of travel and metaphors of space / Jacques Rancière -- The becoming threshold of matrixial boderlines / Bracha Lichtenberg-Ettinger -- Territories of desire : reconsiderations of an African childhood / Griselda Pollock -- Home and identity / Madan Sarup -- For a politics of nomadic identity / Chantal Mouffe -- Refugees and homecomings : Bessie Head and the end of exile / Rob Nixon -- Soft-soaping empire : commodity racism and imperial advertising / Anne McClintock -- Travelling to collect ; the booty of John Bargrave and Charles Waterton / Stephen Bann -- Looking at objects : memory, knowledge in nineteenth-century ethnographic displays / Nélia Dias -- The distance between two points : global culture and the liberal dilemma / Annie E. Coombes -- The cosmopolitan ideal in the arts / Peter Wollen -- 'Getting there' : travel, time and narrative / Barry Curtis and Claire Pajaczkowska -- Travel for men : from Claude Lévi-Strauss to the Sailor Hans / Adrian Rifkin -- Why travel? : Tropics, en-tropics and apo-tropaics / Sunpreet Arshi [and others] -- Leaky habitats and broken grammar / Iain Chambers |
| Summary |
"Travellers' Tales is the second of a series which brings together theorists from different disciplines to assess the implications of economic, political and social change for intellectual enquiry and cultural practice. The series arises from and continues the concerns of BLOCK (1979 to 1989), the journal of visual culture." "Most of us, at various moments in our lives, either adopt a tourist identity or are 'framed' within another's tourist experience. Travellers' Tales investigates the future for travelling in a world whose boundaries are shifting and dissolving. The contributors bring together popular and critical discourses of travel to explore questions of identity and politics; history and narration, collecting and representing other cultures." "Travellers' tales oscillate between the thrill of novel experiences and unexpected pleasures, and the alienation and loneliness of exile in a strange land. The contributions review recent work on the discourses of tourism, travel and cultural politics; the effects of global interactions and local resistances; and the ways in which records, memorials and signs have all been used to describe the experience of encountering the 'other'."--Jacket |
| Analysis |
Human geography Related to Social anthropology |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Intercultural communication.
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Travel.
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Ethnicity.
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Culture conflict.
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Travel in literature.
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Culture shock.
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Ethnic groups.
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Travel
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Ethnicity
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Travel
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travel.
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ethnicity.
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ethnic groups.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Globalization.
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Ethnic groups
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Culture shock
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Culture conflict
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Ethnicity
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Intercultural communication
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Travel in literature
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Travel
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Robertson, George, 1950-
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| ISBN |
0203978986 |
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9780203978986 |
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9786610111473 |
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6610111472 |
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