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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CVP eBook-Package Backfile 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Di Giovine, Michael A.,; Ghasarian, Christian,; Gupta, Pamila,; Knapp, Marcela,; Mota Santos, Paula,; Mármol, Camila del,; Picard, David,; Salazar, Noel B.,; Sammells, Clare A.,; Scheltena, Sanne,; Verschaeve, Mathilde,; Wadle, Hannah C.,; Wiegand, Frauke,
• HerausgeberIn: Di Giovine, Michael A.,; Picard, David,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol, UK;, Blue Ridge Summit, PA : : Channel View Publications, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Tourism and Cultural Change ; 34
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)

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.

Table of 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