Real tourism : practice, care, and politics in contemporary travel culture / / edited by Claudio Minca and Tim Oakes

• Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (281 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.4/819; 306.4819
• Soggetto topico: Postcolonialism; Postmodernism; Tourism - Research; Tourism - Social aspects
• Altri autori: MincaClaudio OakesTim
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; Real Tourism; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgments; 1 Real tourism; 2 No country for old men; 3 Time to hostess:Reflections on borderless care; 4 The rhythms of tourism; 5 The rime of the frequent flyer:Or What the elephant has gotin his trunk; 6 Touring modernities:Disordered tourism in China; 7 Practicing tourist landscapes:Photographic performances andconsumption of nature in Japanesedomestic tourism; 8 Medical tourism,medical exile: Responding to the cross-borderpursuit of healthcare in Malaysia ; 9 Post-ethical tours: Corporate social responsibilityin tourism10 Tourism and the question of poverty; 11 Post-war tours; References; Interviews; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Over the past decade, tourism studies has broken out of its traditional institutional affiliation with business and management programs to take its legitimate place as an interdisciplinary social science field of cutting edge scholarship. The field has emerged as central to ongoing debates in social theory concerning such diverse topics as postcolonialism, mobility, and postmodernism, to name just a few. While there has been a diverse body of empirical research on this transformation the theoretical discussions in tourism studies remain largely attached to theories of modernity and Anglo-ce
• Titolo autorizzato: Real tourism
• ISBN: 1-136-58868-X; 1-283-54724-4; 9786613859693; 1-136-58869-8; 0-203-18096-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910791920503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge studies in contemporary geographies of leisure, tourism, and mobility ; ; 26.