Tourism and Informal Encounters in Cuba [Lingua Inglese]

Simoni, Valerio

ISBN 10: 1782389482 ISBN 13: 9781782389484

Casa editrice: Berghahn Books, 2016

Riassunto

Based on a detailed ethnography, this book explores the promises and expectations of tourism in Cuba, drawing attention to the challenges that tourists and local people face in establishing meaningful connections with each other. Notions of informal encounter and relational idiom illuminate ambiguous experiences of tourism harassment, economic transactions, hospitality, friendship, and festive and sexual relationships. Comparing these various connections, the author shows the potential of touristic encounters to redefine their moral foundations, power dynamics, and implications, offering new insights into how contemporary relationships across difference and inequality are imagined and understood.

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Valerio Simoni is Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Anthropology and Sociology, The Graduate Institute, Geneva. His work, grounded in ethnographic research in Cuba and Spain, focuses on the transformation of intimacy, morality, and economic practice in international tourism and migration.

Valerio Simoni is Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Anthropology and Sociology, The Graduate Institute, Geneva. His work, grounded in ethnographic research in Cuba and Spain, focuses on the transformation of intimacy, morality, and economic practice in international tourism and migration.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Berghahn Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1782389482
• ISBN 13: 9781782389484
• Rilegatura: Rilegatura all'americana
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 266
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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