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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811923103321

Autore

Werry Margaret

Titolo

The tourist state [[electronic resource] ] : performing leisure, liberalism, and race in New Zealand / / Margaret Werry

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2011

ISBN

1-4529-4671-X

0-8166-7844-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (356 p.)

Collana

A Quadrant book

Disciplina

306.48190993

Soggetti

Leisure - New Zealand

Liberalism - New Zealand

Māori (New Zealand people) - Social conditions

National characteristics, New Zealand

Tourism - Political aspects - New Zealand

Tourism - Social aspects - New Zealand

New Zealand Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Note on Orthography; Introduction: Toward a Performance Theory of the State; 1. The State of Nature: Governmentality, Biopoetics, Sensation; 2. The Class Act of Guide Maggie: Cosmopolitesse, Publics, and Participatory Anthropology; 3. Translation, Transnation: Theatrical Politics and Political Theater in the American Pacific; 4. Traficking Race: Policy, Property, and Racial Reformation in the Tourist State; 5. Altered States: Global Hollywood, the Rise of Wellywood, and the Moving Image of Race; Conclusion: Living in a Tourist State; Acknowledgments; Notes; Glossary; A; H; I

KM; P; T; U; W; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Z

Sommario/riassunto

No longer the dreary sheep farm at the end of the world, the New Zealand of the new millennium is a hot global ticket, heralded for its bicultural dynamism, laid-back lifestyle, and scenery extraordinary enough to pass for Tolkien's Middle Earth. How this image was crafted is the story The Tourist State tells. In a series of narratives that address



the embodied dimensions of biopolitics and explore the collision of race, performance, and the cultural poetics of the state, Margaret Werry exposes the real drama behind the new New Zealand, revealing how a nation was sold to the world-and to itsel