Tourism: Between Place and Performance

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Titel: Tourism : Between Place and Performance

Enthält: Frontmatter
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Preface
Grounded Tourists, Travelling Theory
THE PLACE OF NATURE
The Accelerated Sublime: Thrill-Seeking Adventure Heroes in the Commodified Landscape
Making The Scene: The Poetics and Performances of Displacement at the Grand Canyon
The Scottish Highlands as Spectacle
BACK TO THE CITY
Acting Local: Two Performances In Northern Italy
'Cose Paesane' Tourist Performances and Contested Localities in the Italian Alps
Go Athens: A Journey to the Centre of the City
Adventure Tourists and Locals in a Global City: Resisting Tourist Performances in London's 'East End'
DISTANCIATED PLACES
Welcome to Flintstones-Land: Contesting Place and Identity in Goreme, Central Turkey
Performing Place: A Hyperbolic Drugstore in Wall, South Dakota
Farming, Dreaming, and Playing in Iowa: Japanese Mythopoetics and Agrarian Utopia
BRING IT ALL BACK HOME
The Power of Metaphors in Tourism Theory
Surrounded by Place: Embodied Encounters
References
Index

Beteiligte: Bell, Claudia [MitwirkendeR]; Boissevain, Jeremy [MitwirkendeR]; Chaney, David [MitwirkendeR]; Coleman, Simon [MitwirkendeR]; Coleman, Simon [HerausgeberIn]; Crang, Mike [MitwirkendeR]; Crang, Mike [HerausgeberIn]; Crouch, David [MitwirkendeR]; Eade, John [MitwirkendeR]; Filippucci, Paola [MitwirkendeR]; Lyall, John [MitwirkendeR]; MacDonald, Fraser [MitwirkendeR]; Meltzer, Eve [MitwirkendeR]; Neumann, Mark [MitwirkendeR]; Ridler, Keith [MitwirkendeR]; Springwood, Charles Fruehling [MitwirkendeR]; Travlou, Penny [MitwirkendeR]; Tucker, Hazel [MitwirkendeR]

Erschienen: New York; Oxford: Berghahn Books, [2002]

Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (260 p.)

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.1515/9780857457134

ISBN: 9780857457134

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Schlagwörter: Tourism Social aspects ; Tourism ; Travel / General

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Anmerkungen: In English

Beschreibung: 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

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