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Travels in paradox : remapping tourism /
"This innovative volume focuses on tourism through the twin lenses of cultural theory and cultural geography. Presenting a set of innovative case studies on tourist places around the world, the contributors explore the paradoxes of the tourist experience and the implications of these paradoxes...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham :
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,
[2006]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Places and performances / John Urry
- Introduction: traveling paradoxes / Claudio Minca, Tim Oakes
- Sensing tourist spaces / Tim Edensor
- Circulation and emplacement: the hollowed-out performance of tourism / Mike Crang
- Itineraries and the tourist experience / Ning Wang
- Heimat tourism in the countryside: paradoxical sojourns to self and place / Soile Veijola
- Three trips to Italy: deconstructing the new Las Vegas / Pauliina Raento, Steven Flusty
- Tourist places and negotiating modernity: European women and romance tourism in the Sinai / Jessica Jacobs
- Re-inventing the "square": postcolonial geographies and tourist narratives in Jamaa el Fna, Marrakech / Claudio Minca
- Portable autonomous zones: tourism and the travels of dissent / Steven Flusty
- Terror and tourism: charting the ambivalent allure of the urban jungle / Kathleen M. Adams
- Get real! On being yourself and being a tourist / Tim Oakes.