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Seductions of place : geographical perspectives on globalization and touristed landscapes

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 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Critical geographies ; 19
Uniform Title
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.
ISBN
  • 0415192188 (hbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0415192196 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2004002731
OCLC
  • OCM54400400
  • SCSB-9240675
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries