Research Catalog

Title

Tourism encounters and controversies : ontological politics of tourism development / edited by Gunnar Thór Jóhannesson, Carina Ren, René van der Duim.

Publication

Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Publishing, [2015]

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Additional Authors

• Duim, René van der,
• Jóhannesson, Gunnar Thór,
• Ren, Carina,

Description

xii, 247 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

New directions in tourism analysis

Uniform Title

New directions in tourism analysis.

Subjects

• Actor-network theory
• Tourism > Politcal aspects > Case studies
• Tourism > Political aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Tourism encounters, controversies and ontologies / Gunnar Thór Jóhannesson, Carina Ren and René van der Duim -- Shaping money and relationships in touristic Cuba / Valerio Simoni -- Reef controversies : the case of Wakatobi National Park, Indonesia / Senna Middelveld, René van der Duim and Rico Lie -- Entrepreneurship and controversies of tourism development / Anniken Førde -- On crying "controversy" and dealing with the consequences : mapping the new Nordic food phenomenon / Anders Kristian Munk -- Real things, tourist things and drawing the line in the ocean / Felicity Picken -- Conflicts forever : the path dependencies of tourism conflicts : the case of Anabeb Conservancy, Namibia / Arjaan Pellis, Martijn Duineveld and Lauren Wagner -- The tourist-vampire and the citizen : human and nonhuman encounters in the postpolitical / Richard Ek -- Hotel California : biopowering tourism, from new economy singapore to post-Mao China / Claudio Minca and Chin Ee Ong -- A fish called tourism : emergent realities of tourism policy in Iceland / Gunnar Thór Jóhannesson -- Topological encounters : marketing landscapes for tourists / Edward H. Huijbens -- Possible Greenland : on "futuring" in nation branding / Carina Ren -- Postscript : making headways, expanding the field and slowing down / Carina Ren, René van der Duim and Gunnar Thór Jóhannesson.

ISBN

• 1472424360 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 9781472424389 (epub) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2014044658

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library