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Title

Seductions of place : geographical perspectives on globalization and touristed landscapes / edited by Carolyn Cartier and Alan A. Lew.

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.

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Additional Authors

• Cartier, Carolyn L.
• Lew, Alan A.

Description

xii, 340 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Critical geographies ; 19

Subject

• Geographical perception
• Landscape assessment
• Tourism > Social aspects
• Human geography

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Call Number

JFE 07-6171

ISBN

• 0415192188 (hbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780415192187 (hbk. : alk. paper)
• 0415192196 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780415192194 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2004002731

OCLC

54400400

Title

Seductions of place : geographical perspectives on globalization and touristed landscapes / edited by Carolyn Cartier and Alan A. Lew.

Imprint

London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.

Series

Critical geographies ; 19

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Publisher description

Added Author

Cartier, Carolyn L.

Lew, Alan A.

Research Call Number

JFE 07-6171