Tourism and the Power of Otherness : : Seductions of Difference /

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

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...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (208 p.)
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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

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