Travels in Paradox Remapping Tourism

by Minca, Claudio; Oakes, Tim; Adams, Kathleen; Crang, Mike; Edensor, Tim; Flusty, Steven; Jacobs, Jessica; Raento, Pauliina; Urry, John; Veijola, Soile; Wang, Ning

• ISBN13: 9780742528765
• ISBN10: 0742528766
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-03-30
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

This innovative volume focuses on tourism through the twin lenses of cultural theory and cultural geography. Presenting a set of innovative case studies on tourist places around the world, the contributors explore the paradoxes of the tourist experience and the implications of these paradoxes for our broader understanding of the problems of modernity and identity. Rather than offering yet another interpretation of the ways modern societies are distinguished by their mobilities-in contrast to the supposed place-bound quality of traditional societies-the chapters here collectively argue for an understanding of modern identity as simultaneously grounded and mobile. This rich blend of empirical and theoretical analysis will be invaluable for cultural geographers, anthropologists, and sociologists of tourism.

Table of Contents

Preface: Places and Performances	vii
John Urry
Introduction: Traveling Paradoxes	1	(22)
Claudio Minca
Tim Oakes
Sensing Tourist Spaces	23	(24)
Tim Edensor
Circulation and Emplacement: The Hollowed-out Performance of Tourism	47	(18)
Mike Crang
Itineraries and the Tourist Experience	65	(12)
Ning Wang
Heimat Tourism in the Countryside: Paradoxical Sojourns to Self and Place	77	(20)
Soile Veijola
Three Trips to Italy: Deconstructing the New Las Vegas	97	(28)
Pauliina Raento
Steven Flusty
Tourist Places and Negotiating Modernity: European Women and Romance Tourism in the Sinai	125	(30)
Jessica Jacobs
Re-inventing the ``Square'': Postcolonial Geographies and Tourist Narratives in Jamaa el Fna, Marrakech	155	(30)
Claudio Minca
Portable Autonomous Zones: Tourism and the Travels of Dissent	185	(20)
Steven Flusty
Terror and Tourism: Charting the Ambivalent Allure of the Urban Jungle	205	(24)
Kathleen M. Adams
Get Real! On Being Yourself and Being a Tourist	229	(22)
Tim Oakes
Bibliography	251	(24)
Index	275	(10)
About the Contributors	285