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The Good Holiday : Development, Tourism and the Politics of Benevolence in Mozambique / João Afonso Baptista.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: EASA Series ; 30Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (292 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781785335464
  • 9781785335471
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.5 23
LOC classification:
  • G155.M78
  • G155.A2-155.Z9
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations, Figures, Tables and Diagrams -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Introducing Tourism: Canhane -- 2 The Appeal of Community -- 3 Developmentourism -- 4 The Enigma of Water -- 5 The Walk -- 6 Problematizing Poverty -- 7 Non-Governmental Governance -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Drawing on ethnographic research in the village of Canhane, which is host to the first community tourism project in Mozambique, The Good Holiday explores the confluence of two powerful industries: tourism and development, and explains when, how and why tourism becomes development and development, tourism. The volume further explores the social and material consequences of this merging, presenting the confluence of tourism and development as a major vehicle for the exercise of ethics, and non-state governance in contemporary life.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781785335471

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations, Figures, Tables and Diagrams -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Introducing Tourism: Canhane -- 2 The Appeal of Community -- 3 Developmentourism -- 4 The Enigma of Water -- 5 The Walk -- 6 Problematizing Poverty -- 7 Non-Governmental Governance -- Bibliography -- Index

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Drawing on ethnographic research in the village of Canhane, which is host to the first community tourism project in Mozambique, The Good Holiday explores the confluence of two powerful industries: tourism and development, and explains when, how and why tourism becomes development and development, tourism. The volume further explores the social and material consequences of this merging, presenting the confluence of tourism and development as a major vehicle for the exercise of ethics, and non-state governance in contemporary life.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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