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Format: 1 online resource (149 pages)

ISBN: 9781136415401

Content: A one-of-a-kind analysis of ocean cruising! In Ocean Travel and Cruising: A Cultural Analysis, noted author Arthur Asa Berger turns his critical eye to the phenomenon of ocean cruising. This academically solid yet reader-friendly book brings a multidisciplinary cultural studies approach to the subject, examining ocean cruising from economic, semiotic, sociological, psychoanalytic, and marketing perspectives, and offering insights not provided by the more traditional sociological approaches to the subject. You'll explore cruise demographics, the relationship between cruising and gender, the sociology of dining on cruise ships, hedonism and pleasure seeking, the compulsion to cruise, consolidation in the industry, the exploitation of workers on cruise ships, and a great deal more. Here's a section-by-section rundown of what's in store for you and your students in this one-of-a-kind new text: The Economics of Cruising examines cruise categories, industry consolidation, worker exploitation, and ways that cruise lines make money aside from ticket sales. This section also compares the costs of cruises vs. land-based vacations and fills you in on the typical weekly food and beverage consumption of the Carnival line's complement of ships, which sheds light on how a cruise line can, for a mere 10, provide a food array that would cost a restaurant or hotel 33 to 40. Signs at SeaThe Semiotics of Cruising provides you with a quick primer on semiotics and then discusses the cruise ship as a sign system and then breaks the system down to its component parts, discussing dining rooms, cabins/staterooms, dress codes, spatiality, luxury signifiers, the perceived elitism of the cruise experience, the role of photography, and more. A Sociological Analysis of Cruising explores cruise demographics and their meaning, time budgeting on cruises, the sociology of

Content: Intro -- Ocean Travel and Cruising: A Cultural Analysis -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface: The Joke Is on Me! -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. The Economics of Cruising -- Cruising to Alaska: A Case Study -- Cruises Compared to Land-Based Vacations -- Other Ways Cruise Lines Make Money -- Cruise Categories -- Consolidation of the Cruise Industry -- Exploitation of Workers on Cruise Ships? -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2. Signs at Sea: The Semiotics of Cruising -- A Primer on Semiotics -- The Cruise Ship As a Sign System -- Cruises and Pilgrimages -- Names of Cruise Lines and the Perceived Elitism of the Cruise Experience -- Taking Photographs and Using Video Cameras Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3. Sociological Analysis of Cruising -- Cruise Demographics -- Gender and Cruising -- Carnivalization Theory and Cruising -- The Sociology of Dining -- Time Budgets and the Busy Life at Sea -- New Trends in Cruising -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4. A Psychoanalytic Interpretation of Cruising -- The Compulsion to Cruise -- Sea and Psyche -- The Paradise Myth and Cruises -- Cruise Liners As Floating Utopias -- Hedonism and Pleasure Seeking -- Cruise Taking As Regression in the Service of the Ego -- The Gourmet/Gourmand Problem -- Unconditional Love -- The Agony of the Choice -- Escaping the Boredom of Everyday Life -- Behind the Facade: Daily Life of Crew Members -- The Ship As a Labyrinth: A Speculative Theory -- The Cruise Travel Agent As "Fairy Godmother" -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5. Selling Smooth Sailing: Advertising and Marketing Cruises -- Interpreting Advertisements -- What Can Be Analyzed in a Print Advertisement? -- Cruise Advertising in the August 2002 Travel + Leisure Magazine -- Commonalities in These Cruise Advertisements -- Two Cruise Line Brochure (Catalog) Covers -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6. Cruising (on) the Internet.

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Additional Edition: ISBN 9780789021977

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780789021977

Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books

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Format: xiii, 274 pages , illustrations (chiefly color) , 25 cm

ISBN: 9781032154053 , 9781032154077 , 1032154055 , 1032154071

Content: "This book investigates repair as a contemporary expression of empowerment, agency, and resistance to our unmaking of the world and our environment. A collection of timely new scholarship, this edited volume is multidisciplinary in its approach, presenting repair as an act, metaphor, and foundation for opening up a dialogue about design's role in proposing alternative social, environmental, and economic futures. This thematically expansive and richly illustrated book, with over 100 visuals, features an international, interdisciplinary group of contributors from across the design spectrum whose voices and artwork speak to multiple forms of repair as entry points for sparking novel insights into how we might attend to our broken social and physical worlds. Organized into reparative thinking and practices, it features thirty long and short essays, photo essays, and interviews, representing projects and research by artists, designers, architects, museum professionals, sociologists, anthropologists, historians, business analysts, and entrepreneurs. Chapters focus on reparative responses to fractured systems, relationships, cities, architecture, objects, and more. Repair will encourage students, academics, researchers and practitioners in art, design and architecture practice and theory, cultural studies, environment and sustainability, to discuss, engage and rethink the act of repair and its impact on our society and environment"--

Note: Reparative thinking : broken worlds. , Five theses on repair in most of the world , Who decides? power, brokenness, and healing , Repairing the cracked concrete , Broken urban: repair as postapocalyptic design , Why save this? , Repair and imperfection through the lens of the spectral , For the rain, for the wind , Reparative practices : wounds, sutures, and scars. , Aesthetics of visible repair: the challenge of kintsugi , Repair and design futures: an exhibition and call to action , Darning over renewal , Thinking rubble: ruin and repair at war's end , Open dialogues and material memory , What is the work of love today? repair, care, and carrying , Kurhirani no ambakiti (burning the devil): since that's the only way they listen to us , Reparative thinking : alternative ways. , Borderlanders: a political concept for repair , Repair on the move , My grandmother's mended socks: layered design thinking and durability , Is business beyond repair? , Repairing imaginations: rethinking the ethics of growth and degrowth , Is repair repairing architecture? , Trans-repair: emancipatory techno-poetics , Reparative practices : patched and reassembled. , Community repair in south africa: an interview with kevin kimwelle , Fixing as learning , Make-do-and-mend: the repair and reuse of existing buildings , Hand me up , Recovering a sense of place , (Hi)Stories of repair , Notions of repair as a pedagogical dialogue , Toward repairing the social fabric: music performance and pedagogy at work , Stronger futures : a call to action , Lexicon of repair

Additional Edition: Online version Repair London : Routledge, 2023 ISBN 9781000641615

Language: English

DOI: 10.4324/9781003244028