Tourism

by Coleman, Simon; Crang, Mike

• ISBN13: 9781571817464
• ISBN10: 1571817468
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-05-01
• Publisher: Berghahn Books

Summary

Many accounts of tourism have adopted an almost paradigmatic visual model of the gaze. This collection presents an expanded notion of spectatorship with a more dynamic sense of embodied and performed engagement with places. The approach resonates with ideas in anthropology, sociology, and geography on performance, invented traditions, constructed places, and traveling cultures. Contributors highlight the often contradictory, contested and paradoxical constructions of landscape and community involved both in tourist attractions and among tourists themselves. The collection examines many different practices, ranging from the energetic pursuit of adventure holidays to the reading of holiday brochures. It illustrates different techniques of seeing the landscape and a variety of ways of creating and performing the local. Chapters thus demonstrate the mutual entanglement of practices, images, conventions, and creativity. They chart these global flows of people, texts, images, and artefacts. Case studies are drawn from diverse types of tourism and destination focused around North America, Europe, and Australasia.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii
List of Tables	vii
Acknowledgements	viii
List of Contributors	viii
Preface	ix
Jeremy Boissevain
Grounded Tourists, Travelling Theory	1	(20)
Simon Coleman
Mike Crang
The Place Of Nature
The Accelerated Sublime: Thrill-Seeking Adventure Heroes in the Commodified Landscape	21	(17)
Claudia Bell
John Lyall
Making The Scene: The Poetics and Performances of Displacement at the Grand Canyon	38	(16)
Mark Neumann
The Scottish Highlands as Spectacle	54	(21)
Fraser MacDonald
Back To The City
Acting Local: Two Performances in Northern Italy	75	(17)
Paola Filipucci
`Cose Paesane': Tourist Performances and Contested Localities in the Italian Alps	92	(16)
Keith Ridler
Go Athens: A Journey to the Centre of the City	108	(20)
Penny Travlou
Adventure Tourists and Locals in a Global City: Resisting Tourist Performances in London's `East End'	128	(15)
John Eade
Distanciated Places
Welcome to Flintstones-Land: Contesting Place and Identity in Goreme, Central Turkey	143	(17)
Hazel Tucker
Performing Place: A Hyperbolic Drugstore in Wall, South Dakota	160	(16)
Eve Meltzer
Farming, Dreaming and Playing in Iowa: Japanese Mythopoetics and Agrarian Utopia	176	(17)
Charles Fruehling Springwood
Bringing It All Back Home
The Power of Metaphors in Tourism Theory	193	(14)
David Chaney
Surrounded by Place: Embodied Encounters	207	(12)
David Crouch
References	219	(18)
Index	237