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Tourism and the Power of Otherness : Seductions of Difference / ed. by David Picard, Michael A. Di Giovine.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Tourism and Cultural Change ; 34Publisher: Bristol, UK; Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Channel View Publications, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781845414160
  • 9781845414177
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • G155.A1 T589518 2014
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Contributors -- 1. Introduction: Through Other Worlds -- Part 1: Travels into a Past Golden Age -- 2. Through Other Times: The Politics of Heritage and the Past in the Catalan Pyrenees -- 3. Calling Upon the Lost Empire: The Evocative Power of Miniatures in a Portuguese Nationalist Theme Park -- 4. Tourism and Post-socialist Heterotopias: Eastern Europe as an Imagined Rural Past -- Part 2: Tourism and Others in Dialogue -- 5. Frozen Vodka and White Skin in Tourist Goa -- 6. Seducation: Learning the Trade of Tourist Enticement -- 7. Bargaining under Thatch Roofs: Tourism and the Allure of Poverty in Highland Bolivia -- Part 3: Travel, Other and Self-Revelation -- 8. Mediterranean Fields of Love: Embodied Encounters between Male Tourism Workers and Female Tourists in a Coastal Town in Turkey -- 9. Wild Inside: Uncanny Encounters in European Traveller Fantasies of Africa -- 10. Journeys to the Inner Self: Neo-Shamanism and the Search for Authenticity in Contemporary New Age Travel Practice -- Index
Summary: This book explores the paradoxes of Self-Other relations in the field of tourism. It particularly focuses on the 'power' of different forms of 'Otherness' to seduce and to disrupt, and, eventually, also to renew the social and cosmological orders of 'modern' culture and everyday life. Drawing on a series of ethnographic case studies, the contributors investigate the production, socialisation and symbolic encompassment of different 'Others' as a political and also an economic resource to govern social life in the present. The volume provides a comparative inductive study on the modernist philosophical concepts of time, 'Otherness', and the self in practice, and relates it to contemporary tourism and mobility.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Contributors -- 1. Introduction: Through Other Worlds -- Part 1: Travels into a Past Golden Age -- 2. Through Other Times: The Politics of Heritage and the Past in the Catalan Pyrenees -- 3. Calling Upon the Lost Empire: The Evocative Power of Miniatures in a Portuguese Nationalist Theme Park -- 4. Tourism and Post-socialist Heterotopias: Eastern Europe as an Imagined Rural Past -- Part 2: Tourism and Others in Dialogue -- 5. Frozen Vodka and White Skin in Tourist Goa -- 6. Seducation: Learning the Trade of Tourist Enticement -- 7. Bargaining under Thatch Roofs: Tourism and the Allure of Poverty in Highland Bolivia -- Part 3: Travel, Other and Self-Revelation -- 8. Mediterranean Fields of Love: Embodied Encounters between Male Tourism Workers and Female Tourists in a Coastal Town in Turkey -- 9. Wild Inside: Uncanny Encounters in European Traveller Fantasies of Africa -- 10. Journeys to the Inner Self: Neo-Shamanism and the Search for Authenticity in Contemporary New Age Travel Practice -- Index

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This book explores the paradoxes of Self-Other relations in the field of tourism. It particularly focuses on the 'power' of different forms of 'Otherness' to seduce and to disrupt, and, eventually, also to renew the social and cosmological orders of 'modern' culture and everyday life. Drawing on a series of ethnographic case studies, the contributors investigate the production, socialisation and symbolic encompassment of different 'Others' as a political and also an economic resource to govern social life in the present. The volume provides a comparative inductive study on the modernist philosophical concepts of time, 'Otherness', and the self in practice, and relates it to contemporary tourism and mobility.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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