Tourist Utopias : : Offshore Islands, Enclave Spaces, and Mobile Imaginaries /

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

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package 2016-2018
MitwirkendeR:
Easterling, Keller,
Elsheshtawy, Yasser,
Goh, Daniel P.S.,
Hodges, Benjamin Kidder,
Lampton, Adam,
Ndalianis, Angela,
Nyíri, Pál,
Simpson, Tim,
Werry, Margaret,
della Dora, Veronica,
HerausgeberIn:
Simpson, Timothy,
Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:New Mobilities in Asia
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Physical Description:1 online resource (228 p.) :; 5 color plates, 30 halftones
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Table of 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

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