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Autore: |
Werry Margaret
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Titolo: |
The tourist state : performing leisure, liberalism, and race in New Zealand / / Margaret Werry
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Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2011 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (356 p.) |
Disciplina: | 306.48190993 |
Soggetto topico: | Leisure - New Zealand |
Liberalism - New Zealand | |
Maori (New Zealand people) - Social conditions | |
National characteristics, New Zealand | |
Tourism - Political aspects - New Zealand | |
Tourism - Social aspects - New Zealand | |
Soggetto geografico: | New Zealand Race relations |
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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | The tourist state ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-4529-4671-X |
0-8166-7844-8 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910811923103321 |
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