Tourism

Between Place and Performance

Häftad, Engelska, 2002

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Many accounts of tourism have adopted an almost paradigmatic visual model of the gaze. This collection presents an expanded notion of spectatorship with a more dynamic sense of embodied and performed engagement with places. The approach resonates with ideas in anthropology, sociology, and geography on performance, invented traditions, constructed places and traveling cultures. Contributions highlight the often contradictory, contested and paradoxical constructions of landscape and community involved both in tourist attractions and among tourists themselves. The collection examines many different practices, ranging from the energetic pursuit of adventure holidays to the reading of holiday brochures. It illustrates different techniques of seeing the landscape and a variety of ways of creating and performing the local. Chapters thus demonstrate the mutual entanglement of practices, images, conventions, and creativity. They chart these global flows of people, texts, images, and artefacts. Case studies are drawn from diverse types of tourism and destination focused around North America, Europe, and Australasia.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2002-06-01
Mått152 x 229 x 14 mm
Vikt354 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor260
FörlagBerghahn Books, Incorporated
ISBN9781571817464

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List of IllustrationsList of TablesAcknowledgementsList of ContributorsPrefaceJeremy BoissevainChapter 1. Grounded Tourists, Travelling TheorySimon Coleman and Mike CrangTHE PLACE OF NATUREChapter 2. Chapter 3. The Accelerated Sublime: Thrill-seeking Adventure Heroes in the Commodified LandscapeClaudia Bell and John LyallChapter 3. Making the Scene: The Poetics and Performances of Displacement at the Grand CanyonMark NeumannChapter 4. The Scottish Highlands as SpectacleFraser MacDonaldBACK TO THE CITYChapter 5. Acing Local: Two Performances in Northern ItalyPaola FilippucciChapter 6. "Cose Paesane": Enacting Ambivalent Identities in the Italian AlpsKeith RidlerChapter 7. Go Athens: A Journey to the Centre of the CityPenny TravlouChapter 8. Adventure Tourists and Locals in a Global City: Resisting Tourist Performances in London's 'East End'John EadeDISTANCIATED PLACESChapter 9. Welcome to Flintstones-Land: Contesting Place and Identity in Goreme, Central TurkeyHazel TuckerChapter 10. Performing Place: A Hyperbolic Drugstore in Wall, South DakotaEve MelzerChapter 11. Farming, Dreaming and Playing in Iowa: Japanese Mythopoetics and Agrarian UtopiaCharles Fruehling SpringwoodBRINGING IT ALL BACK HOMEChapter 12. The Power of Metaphors in Tourism TheoryDavid ChaneyChapter 13. Surrounded by Place: Embodied EncountersDavid CrouchReferencesIndex

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