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9781856495622

Travel Worlds : Journeys in Contemporary Cultural Politics

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  • ISBN13:

    9781856495622

  • ISBN10:

    1856495620

  • Format: Trade Paper
  • Copyright: 1999-04-15
  • Publisher: Zed Books
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Summary

Tackling the dearth of politically-engaged work on travel and tourism, this book provides a counter-narrative of travel-worlds shaped by divergent legacies: of colonialism, crusades, migration, diaspora, displacement, tourism, ethnography, political insurgency and transnationalization. The issues addressed include: north-south traffic in hip hop, Kung-Fu and sex tourism; missionaries in India, academics in the west; Saint George as an Arab soldier in The Crusades; the Indian-Pakistan border, displacement and defiance; mobile resistance to nation-state hegemonies in Bangladesh; the international market value of dead tourists; pop personalities, MTV and souvenir culture; diasporized Mirpuri youth on travel; touring black women, pleasure islands; and ethnographers abroad. Such diverse journeys are plotted using counter-hegemonic perspectives on the politics and practice of travel.

Author Biography

Raminder Kaur has recently finished her PhD at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and is Artistic Director and chief script writer of Chandica Arts.

John Hutnyk is currently European Research Fellow in Social Sciences at the University of Heidelberg.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vii
Introduction
1(13)
Raminder Kaur
John Hutnyk
Ni-Ten-Ichi-Ryu Enter the World of the Smart Stepper
14(15)
Koushik Banerjea
Travelling Light: Missionary Musings, Colonial Cultures and Anthropological Anxieties
29(22)
Saurabh Dube
Anthem
51(3)
Joyoti Grech
The Strut of the Peacocks: Partition, Travel and the Indo-Pak Border
54(14)
Virinder S. Kalra
Navtej K. Purewal
Bordercrossing
68(6)
Joyoti Grech
Tourists, Terrorists, Death and Value
74(20)
Peter Phipps
Magical Mystical Tourism
94(26)
John Hutnyk
Wish you Were(n't) Here? Discrepant Representations of Mirpur in Narratives of Migration, Diaspora and Tourism
120(17)
Sean McLoughlin
Virinder S. Kalra
Journey Through Life The Self in Travel
137(18)
Shirin Housee
Parking the Snout in Goa
155(18)
Raminder Kaur
About the Contributors 173(1)
Bibliography 174(8)
Index 182

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