Tourism : : Between Place and Performance / / ed. by Simon Coleman, Mike Crang.

• MitwirkendeR: Bell, Claudia,; Boissevain, Jeremy,; Chaney, David,; Coleman, Simon,; Crang, Mike,; Crouch, David,; Eade, John,; Filippucci, Paola,; Lyall, John,; MacDonald, Fraser,; Meltzer, Eve,; Neumann, Mark,; Ridler, Keith,; Springwood, Charles Fruehling,; Travlou, Penny,; Tucker, Hazel,
• HerausgeberIn: Coleman, Simon,; Crang, Mike,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2002]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (260 p.)

Many accounts of tourism have adopted an almost paradigmatic visual model of the gaze. This collection presents an expanded notion of spectatorship with a more dynamic sense of embodied and performed engagement with places. The approach resonates with ideas in anthropology, sociology, and geography on performance, invented traditions, constructed places and traveling cultures. Contributions highlight the often contradictory, contested and paradoxical constructions of landscape and community involved both in tourist attractions and among tourists themselves. The collection examines many different practices, ranging from the energetic pursuit of adventure holidays to the reading of holiday brochures. It illustrates different techniques of seeing the landscape and a variety of ways of creating and performing the local. Chapters thus demonstrate the mutual entanglement of practices, images, conventions, and creativity. They chart these global flows of people, texts, images, and artefacts. Case studies are drawn from diverse types of tourism and destination focused around North America, Europe, and Australasia.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Grounded Tourists, Travelling Theory -- THE PLACE OF NATURE -- The Accelerated Sublime: Thrill-Seeking Adventure Heroes in the Commodified Landscape -- Making The Scene: The Poetics and Performances of Displacement at the Grand Canyon -- The Scottish Highlands as Spectacle -- BACK TO THE CITY -- Acting Local: Two Performances In Northern Italy -- ‘Cose Paesane’ Tourist Performances and Contested Localities in the Italian Alps -- Go Athens: A Journey to the Centre of the City -- Adventure Tourists and Locals in a Global City: Resisting Tourist Performances in London’s ‘East End’ -- DISTANCIATED PLACES -- Welcome to Flintstones-Land: Contesting Place and Identity in Goreme, Central Turkey -- Performing Place: A Hyperbolic Drugstore in Wall, South Dakota -- Farming, Dreaming, and Playing in Iowa: Japanese Mythopoetics and Agrarian Utopia -- BRING IT ALL BACK HOME -- The Power of Metaphors in Tourism Theory -- Surrounded by Place: Embodied Encounters -- References -- Index