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Tourism and postcolonialism : contested discourses, identities and representations /
This book draws together theoretical and applied research in order to illuminate the links between tourism, colonialism and postcolonialism. Significantly, it aims to create a space for the voices of authors from postcolonial countries.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York, NY :
Routledge,
2004.
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| Colección: | Routledge/contemporary geographies of leisure, tourism, and mobility ;
3. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility
- Tourism and Postcolonialism
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Reference
- 1
- Tourism and postcolonialism
- Positioning postcolonialism
- Hegemony
- Language, text and representation
- Place, displacement and identity
- Postcoloniality and theory
- References
- 2
- Tourism and new sense
- Introduction: the declarative value of tourism
- Theorising the declarative value of tourism: five thinkers
- Recap: recent research on the declarative value of tourism
- Tourism and postcolonial worlds
- New sense in the postcolonial world: tourism, Bhabha and enunciation
- Prospect: Bhabha and the worldmaking function of tourism
- Acknowledgements
- References
- 3
- Saying the same old things
- Introduction
- A contemporary travel discourse in travelogues
- A colonial discourse as travel fantasy
- How travel tensions are resolved
- Domesticity or exploration and conquest?
- Mediators and the reordering of power
- Conclusion
- References
- 4
- Cultural tourism in postcolonial environments
- Introduction
- Ethnicity and tradition
- Ethnicity, cultural tradition and tourism: some linkages
- The Carib of St Vincent
- constructing histories and ethnicities
- The ethnohistory of the Carib
- Assessment and conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- References
- 5
- About romance and reality
- Introduction
- African landscapes and African Others in European imagery
- Africa(ns) on stage in Europe
- Primitive art
- The Bushmen of southern Africa: from exhibition on stage to exhibition on location
- Moving the stage from Europe to Africa in the European quest for authenticity
- Acknowledgements
- References
- 6
- Commodifying heritage
- Introduction
- Fascination with heritage
- Heritage, postcolonialism and tourism
- What kind of heritage attracts tourists?
- Visual appearance
- Focus on content
- Incomplete monuments
- Challenges in commodifying heritage
- Nelson Mandela as tourist attraction
- Commodification of Zulu heritage
- Conclusion
- References
- 7
- Tourism and British colonial heritage in Malaysia and Singapore
- Introduction
- The colonial legacy in Malaysia and Singapore
- Conserving colonial heritage
- Colonial heritage as a tourist attraction
- Conclusion
- References
- 8
- A colonial town for neocolonial tourism
- Introduction
- Levuka: a colonial town
- Heritage in Levuka
- Building preservation
- The purpose of buildings
- Conclusion
- References
- 9
- Neocolonialism, dependency and external control of Africa's tourism industry
- Introduction
- Historical background: colonialism and the era of big-game hunting
- The creation of wildlife parks
- External control and postcolonial tourism
- The creation of tourism image
- Exclusion of local people from tourism
- Conclusion
- References
- 10
- Postcolonial conflict inherent in the involvement of cultural tourism in creating new national myths in Hong Kong
- Introduction
- National myths and loaded symbols
- The treatment of culture and herit.