The Tourist State : Performing Leisure, Liberalism, and Race in New Zealand /

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No longer the dreary sheep farm at the end of the world, the New Zealand of the new millennium is a hot global ticket, heralded for its bicultural dynamism, laid-back lifestyle, and scenery extraordinary enough to pass for Tolkien's Middle Earth. How this image was crafted is the story The Tour...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Werry, Margaret
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Tourism > Social aspects.
Tourism > Political aspects.
Race relations.
National characteristics, New Zealand.
Maori (New Zealand people) > Social conditions.
Liberalism.
Leisure.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Hospitality, Travel & Tourism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
Liberalisme > Nouvelle-Zelande.
Maoris > Conditions sociales.
Neo-Zelandais.
Loisir > Nouvelle-Zelande.
Liberalism > New Zealand.
Leisure > New Zealand.
Tourism > Political aspects > New Zealand.
Tourism > Social aspects > New Zealand.
New Zealand.
New Zealand > Race relations.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:No longer the dreary sheep farm at the end of the world, the New Zealand of the new millennium is a hot global ticket, heralded for its bicultural dynamism, laid-back lifestyle, and scenery extraordinary enough to pass for Tolkien's Middle Earth. How this image was crafted is the story The Tourist State tells. In a series of narratives that address the embodied dimensions of biopolitics and explore the collision of race, performance, and the cultural poetics of the state, Margaret Werry exposes the real drama behind the new New Zealand, revealing how a nation was sold to the world-and to itsel.
Physical Description:1 online resource (352 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780816678440

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