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Tourist Utopias : Offshore Islands, Enclave Spaces, and Mobile Imaginaries / ed. by Timothy Simpson.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: New Mobilities in AsiaPublisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (228 p.) : 5 color plates, 30 halftonesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789089648471
  • 9789048527014
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.4/819 23
LOC classification:
  • G156.5.S63 T68 2017
  • G156.5S63T682017
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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)9789048527014

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

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)