Travels in Paradox: Remapping Tourism - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0742528766 ISBN 13: 9780742528765

Casa editrice: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006

Riassunto

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 for our broader understanding of modern identity as simultaneously grounded and mobile. The book examines how tourism reveals the paradoxical ways that places are both mobile and rooted, real and fake, inhabited by those who are simultaneously insiders and outsiders, and both subjectively experienced and objectively viewed. This rich blend of empirical and theoretical analysis will be invaluable for cultural geographers, anthropologists, and sociologists of tourism.

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L'autore:

Claudio Minca is professor of human geography at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Tim Oakes is associate professor of geography at the University of Colorado.

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• Editore: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0742528766
• ISBN 13: 9780742528765
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 298
• Redattore: Minca Claudio