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Travels in paradox : remapping tourism
- Title
- Travels in paradox : remapping tourism / edited by Claudio Minca and Tim Oakes.
- Publication
- Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2006], ©2006.
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- Description
- xi, 286 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-273) and index.
- Contents
- Preface : places and performances / John Urry -- Introduction : traveling paradoxes / Claudio Minca and Tim Oakes -- 1. Sensing tourist spaces / Tim Edensor -- 2. Circulation and emplacement : the hollowed-out performance of tourism / Mike Crang -- 3. Itineraries and the tourist experience / Ning Wang -- 4. Heimat tourism in the countryside : paradoxical sojourns to self and place / Soile Veijola -- 5. Three trips to Italy : deconstructing the new Las Vegas / Pauliina Raento and Steven Flusty -- 6. Tourist places and negotiating modernity : European women and romance tourism in the Sinai / Jessica Jacobs -- 7. Re-inventing the "square" : postcolonial geographies and tourist narratives in Jamaa el Fna, Marrakech / Claudio Minca -- 8. Portable autonomous zones : tourism and the travels of dissent / Steven Flusty -- 9. Terror and tourism : charting the ambivalent allure of the urban jungle / Kathleen M. Adams -- 10. Get real! : on being yourself and being a tourist / Tim Oakes.
- ISBN
- 0742528758 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0742528766 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2005035010
- 9780742528758
- 9780742528765
- OCLC
- OCM62421241
- SCSB-5247711
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries