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...

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