Tourism: Between Place and Performance: 0

ISBN 10: 157181745X ISBN 13: 9781571817457

Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2002

Synopsis

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. Contributions 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.

About this title

About the Authors

Simon Coleman moved to Sussex University in 2004, having spent 11 years at Durham University as Lecturer and then Reader in Anthropology, and Deputy Dean for the Faculty of Social Sciences and Health.

Mike Crang is Lecturer in the Department of Geography, University of Durham.

Edition details

• Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 157181745X
• ISBN 13: 9781571817457
• Binding: Library Binding
• Number of pages: 260
• Editor: Coleman Simon, Crang Mike