The Impact of Tourism in East Africa: A Ruinous System (Tourism and Cultural Change): 58 - Softcover

Storch; Anne; Mietzner; Angelika

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1845418360 ISBN 13: 9781845418366

Publisher: Channel View Publications, 2021

Synopsis

This book explores the relationship between imperial formations and individual encounters at African tourist sites spaces of leisure, healing and work. It examines how encounters between tourists and hosts tend to be constructed along colonial thought lines and considers how players in the hospitality industry do not interact as coeval participants, but are racialised, scripted and positioned according to colonially-established order. The authors focus on the language of these encounters, not only speech, performance and response, but also silence, resonance, emptiness, noise objectified, materialised, evasive and confusing. Through its exploration of language in these encounters, the volume shows that ruination is the one feature that is omnipresent in the multiple and diverse tourist settings of the postcolonial world. This book is open access under a CC BY ND licence.

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About the Author

Anne Storch is a Professor in the Institute of African Studies at the University of Cologne, Germany. She has published widely on African languages, African sociolinguistics, tourism and critical heritage studies, metalinguistic discourse and colonial linguistics. Angelika Mietzner is a Senior Lecturer in the Institute of African Studies at the University of Cologne, Germany. Her research interests include Nilotic languages, African sociolinguistics, anthropological linguistics and tourism.

Edition details

• Publisher: Channel View Publications
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1845418360
• ISBN 13: 9781845418366
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192