Tourism and Postcolonialism: Contested Discourses, Identities and Representations (Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415331021 ISBN 13: 9780415331029

Publisher: Routledge, 2004

Synopsis

Due to its centrality to the processes of transnational mobilities, migration and globalization, tourism studies has the potential to make a significant contribution to understanding the postcolonial experience. Drawing together theoretical and applied research, this fascinating book illuminates the links between tourism, colonialism and postcolonialism. Significantly, it creates a space for the voices of authors from postcolonial countries.

Chapters are integrated and examined through concepts taken from the wider postcolonial literature, which identify tourism not only as an international industry but also as a postcolonial cultural form, which by its very nature is based on past and present day colonial structural relationships.

The first book to explicitly explore the contribution tourism can make to the postcolonial experience, this book is an essential read for students of tourism, cultural studies and geography.

About this title

About the Author

C. Michael Hall is Professor of Tourism, and Hazel Tucker is Senior Lecturer of Tourism, both at the Department of Tourism, University of Otago, New Zealand.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415331021
• ISBN 13: 9780415331029
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208
• Editor: Hall Michael C., Tucker Hazel