Seductions of Place : : geographical perspectives on globalization and touristed landscapes / / Alan A. Lew.

• VerfasserIn: Lew, Alan A.,
• Place / Publishing House: London, United Kingdom : : Taylor & Francis,, 2005.
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 340 pages) :; illustrations

The seductiveness of touristed landscapes is simultaneously local and global, as travelled places are formed and reworked by the activities of diverse, mobile people, in their desires to experience situated, sensuous qualities of difference. Cartier and Lew's interesting and informative book explores contemporary issues in travel and tourism and human geography, and the complex cultural, political, and economic activities at stake in touristed landscapes as a result of globalization. This book assesses travel and tourism as simultaneously cultural and economic processes, through ideas about place seduction and the formation of landscapes. Throughout, examples are given from urban and environmental touristed landscapes, from major world cities to tropical islands, and chapter contributions include: an analysis of the representational character of landscape and the built environment historic constructions of place seduction the importance of class, racial, and gender dimensions of place how mobility and the seduction of place orient identity formation the environmental impacts of tourism economies. Broad in scope, this book is ideal for social scientists and humanists who are interested in contemporary debates about place studies, mobility, and the located realities of globalization.

Table of Contents

Touristed landscapes/seductions of place / Carolyn Cartier -- Flirting with space : tourism geographies as sensuous/expressive practice / David Crouch -- Tourism and the modern subject : placing the encounter between tourist and other / Tim Oakes -- The souvenir and sacrifice in the tourist mode of consumption / Jon Goss -- Tourism economy : the global landscape / Ginger Smith -- Silicon values : miniaturization, speed, and money / Dean Maccannell -- Bellagio and beyond / Claudio Minca -- Seducing global capital : reimaging space in Melbourne and Sydney / C. Michael Hall -- Urbanscape as attraction : the case of Guangzhou / Ning Wang -- San Francisco and the Left Coast / Carolyn Cartier -- Tourist weddings in Hawai'i : consuming the destination / Mary G. McDonald -- Maintaining the myth : Tahiti and its islands / Anne-Marie d'Hauteserre -- Uncertain images : tourism development and seascapes of the Caribbean / Janet Henshall Momsen -- The contested beach : resistance and resort development in Antigua, West Indies / Jeff Baldwin -- Desiring Ashima, sexing landscape in China's Stone Forest / Margaret Byrne Swain -- "New Asia-Singapore" : a concoction of tourism, place, and image / T.C. Chang and Shirlena Huang -- Is the Great Wall of China the Great Wall of China? / Trevor H.B. Sofield and Fung Mei Sarah Li -- Existential tourism and the homeland : the overseas Chinese experience / Alan A. Lew and Alan Wong -- Centering tourism geography / Alan A. Lew and Carolyn Cartier.