Research Catalog

Title

Living with tourism : negotiating identities in a Turkish village / Hazel Tucker.

Author

Tucker, Hazel, 1965-

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.

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Details

Description

x, 211 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.

Summary

Redefining 'community' and considering the effects tourism has on culture, this book delivers an ethnographic account of both the toured and touring community in Goreme, central Turkey. Hazel Tucker presents an in-depth analysis of the interactions between tourists, the local community and place. She demonstrates the implications that community ownership and participation in tourism have for the politics of representation and identity, and also for the nature of the tourist experience. Dealing with contentious theoretical issues related to globalization and culture, Tucker challenges contemporary thinking relating to tourism authenticity and cultural sustainability, and shows how, together with host communities, tourists themselves are continuously negotiating their own identities and experiences in interaction with the people and places they meet. [from publisher's advertisement].

Series Statement

Routledge/contemporary geographies of leisure, tourism, and mobility

Uniform Title

Routledge/contemporary geographies of leisure, tourism, and mobility.

Subject

• Tourism > Turkey > Göreme
• Tourism > Social aspects > Turkey > Göreme
• Visitors, Foreign > Turkey > Göreme > Attitudes
• Tourism
• Tourism > Social aspects
• Visitors, Foreign > Attitudes
• Tourismus
• Toerisme
• Toeristen
• Lokale gemeenschappen
• Interactie
• Identiteit
• Turkey > Göreme
• Göreme
• Türkei

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [190]-207) and index.

Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. Imaging Cappadocia: the construction of a tourist place -- 3. The tourists: in search of serendipity -- 4. Continuity and change: gender and production in Goreme -- 5. A community in competition: the business of tourism in Goreme -- 6. Close encounters: interactions between hosts and guests -- 7. Romantic developments: new and changing gender relations through tourism -- 8. The continuation of Goreme as a 'tourist site': politics of place and identity -- 9. Conclusion.

ISBN

• 0415298563
• 9780415298568
• 9780203987674
• 0203987675

LCCN

2002010082

OCLC

• ocm50079593
• 50079593
• SCSB-1285107

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library