Tourist Utopias : Offshore Islands, Enclave Spaces, and Mobile Imaginaries /

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Released on the 500-year anniversary of the publication of Sir Thomas More's Utopia, this volume seeks to adapt and apply More's fecund imagination to the contemporary leisure landscape. The contributors to this volume theorize and analyze a variety of "tourist utopias"--A nascen...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Simpson, Tim (Associate professor) (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Utopie
Tourismus
Insel.
Enklave
Tourism > Social aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
Tourism > Social aspects > United Arab Emirates.
Tourism > Social aspects > China > Macau.
Tourism > Social aspects > Southeast Asia.
United Arab Emirates.
Southeast Asia.
China > Macau.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prolegomenon
  • 1. Mapping Tourist Utopias / Tim Simpson
  • 2. The Zone Is on Vacation / Keller Easterling
  • Enclaves
  • 3. Instant Cities in the Jungle: Fantasies of Modernity for Whom? / Pal Nyiri
  • 4. After Utopia: Post-Colonial Macau and Post-Socialist Chinese Tourists / Tim Simpson
  • 5. Choreographing Singapore's Utopia by the Bay / Daniel P.S. Goh
  • 6. Cultural Utopia: Abu Dhabi's Island of Happiness and the Development of a Cultural Enclave / Yasser Elsheshtawy
  • Imaginaries
  • 7. Disney's Utopian Techno-Futures: Tomorrow's World That We Shall Build Today / Angela Ndalianis
  • 8. Tourism and a Virtual Bulgaria / Benjamin Kidder Hodges
  • 9. Sublimity, Sovereignty, and Sophistry: The Trouble in Middle-earth / Margaret Werry
  • 10. Macau Utopics: A Photo Essay / Adam Lampton
  • Archipelagoes
  • 11. From Dubai to Mount Athos: Carving Islands of Fear and Hope / Veronica della Dora.

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