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Record Nr.

UNINA9910422644403321

Autore

Gonçalves Kellie

Titolo

Labour policies, language use and the "new" economy : the case of adventure tourism / / Kellie Gonçalves

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

3-030-48705-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVII, 277 p. 25 illus., 22 illus. in color.)

Collana

Language and Globalization

Disciplina

338.4791

Soggetti

Tourism - Social aspects

Intercultural communication - Activity programs

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Theorizing Place, Tourist Mobilities and Adventure Tourism -- Chapter 2: Adventure Playgrounds: Places to Play and Places 'in Play' -- Chapter 3: Mobile and Global Ethnography in Two Hemispheres -- Chapter 4: Labor Regulation and Hypermobility Within Adventure Tourism's Niche Market -- Chapter 5: The Performance of Place and Tourist Performativity Through Bungee Jumping On and Offline -- Chapter 6: Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 7: Advice: What to Bear in Mind If You Decide on an Ethnographic Study Of Your Own.

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides an in-depth analysis of language and tourist mobility within an adventure tourism context. It uses a critical and ethnographic approach, contributing to poststructuralist perspectives of social life that are currently undergoing considerable changes on social, political, cultural and linguistic levels. Drawing upon an array of data sources collected over five years on two continents, it examines and compares the way language and communication (e.g. speech, written texts, visual resources) are used within the production of place-making practices in two of the world’s top adventure tourism destinations: Interlaken, Switzerland and Queenstown, New Zealand. It centres on issues such as cross-cultural discourses, transcultural texts, and semiotic landscapes. Kellie Gonçalves is SNSF Marie Heim-Vögtlin



Fellow at the English Department of the University of Bern, Switzerland. .