TY  - BOOK
AU  - Easterling,Keller
AU  - Elsheshtawy,Yasser
AU  - Goh,Daniel P.S.
AU  - Hodges,Benjamin Kidder
AU  - Lampton,Adam
AU  - Ndalianis,Angela
AU  - Nyíri,Pál
AU  - Simpson,Tim
AU  - Simpson,Timothy
AU  - Werry,Margaret
AU  - della Dora,Veronica
TI  - Tourist Utopias: Offshore Islands, Enclave Spaces, and Mobile Imaginaries 
T2  - New Mobilities in Asia
SN  - 9789089648471
AV  - G156.5.S63 T68 2017
U1  - 306.4/819 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Amsterdam : 
PB  - Amsterdam University Press, 
KW  - Tourism
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - China
KW  - Macau
KW  - Southeast Asia
KW  - United Arab Emirates
KW  - Macau (Special Administrative Region)
KW  - Asian Studies
KW  - Interdisciplinary Studies
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Hospitality, Travel & Tourism
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - tourism, mobility, enclave, space of exception
N1  - Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Prolegomenon --; 1. Mapping Tourist Utopias --; 2. The Zone Is on Vacation --; Enclaves --; 3. Instant Cities in the Jungle --; 4 After Utopia --; 5. Choreographing Singapore's Utopia by the Bay --; 6. Cultural Utopia --; Imaginaries --; 7. Disney's Utopian Techno-Futures --; 8. Tourism and a Virtual Bulgaria --; 9. Sublimity, Sovereignty, and Sophistry --; 10. Macau Utopics --; Archipelagoes --; 11. From Dubai to Mount Athos --; About the Authors --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - Released on the 500-year anniversary of the publication of Sir Thomas More's Utopia, this volume seeks to adapt and apply More's fecund imagination to the contemporary leisure landscape. The contributors to this volume theorize and analyze a variety of "tourist utopias"-a nascent socio-spatial form crucial to a post-industrial global economy. From Disney World to Dubai, "Middle Earth" to Marina Bay, Macau to Abu Dhabi, these sites share common characteristics that include their respective status as "spaces of exception"; entrepreneurial governance regimes that rely on cooperation among state and non-state actors; transient, multinational populations; immaterial and affective forms of labor and consumption; superlative and iconic architecture; and economies devoted to such leisure activities as shopping, gambling, and spectacle. These locales are not only popular destinations for migrant workers and mobile tourists from around the globe, but also serve as cultural laboratories for testing new formats and protocols of an emergent post-Fordist form-of-life
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048527014
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789048527014
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9789048527014/original
ER  -