UID:
edocfu_9959238324602883
Umfang:
1 online resource (208 p.)
ISBN:
1-134-32966-0
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1-134-32967-9
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0-415-75882-3
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1-280-05940-0
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0-203-39227-2
Serie:
Contemporary geographies of leisure, tourism and mobility ; 3
Inhalt:
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
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Preface; Tourism and postcolonialism: an introduction; Tourism and new sense: worldmaking and the enunciative value of tourism; Saying the same old things: a contemporary travel discourse and the popular magazine text; Cultural tourism in postcolonial environments: negotiating histories, ethnicities and authenticities in St Vincent, Eastern Caribbean; About romance and reality: popular European imagery in postcolonial tourism in southern Africa; Commodifying heritage: post-apartheid monuments and cultural tourism in South Africa
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Tourism and British colonial heritage in Malaysia and SingaporeA colonial town for neocolonial tourism; Neocolonialism, dependency and external control of Africa's tourism industry: a case study of wildlife safari tourism in Kenya; Postcolonial conflict inherent in the involvement of cultural tourism in creating new national myths in Hong Kong; Globalisation and neocolonialist tourism; Conclusion; Index
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-203-68467-2
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-415-33102-1
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.4324/9780203392270
