Tourism and postcolonialism : contested discourses, identities and representations / / [edited by] C. Michael Hall and Hazel Tucker

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (208 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.4/791
• Soggetto topico: Tourism; Tourism - Social aspects; Postcolonialism
• Classificazione: 76.60
• Altri autori: HallColin Michael <1961-> TuckerHazel <1965->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 ; 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Tourism and postcolonialism
• ISBN: 1-134-32966-0; 1-134-32967-9; 0-415-75882-3; 1-280-05940-0; 0-203-39227-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910816595703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge studies in contemporary geographies of leisure, tourism, and mobility ; ; 3.