Privileged Mobilities
Tourism as World Ordering
1st Edition
Published on 29. February 2016
150 pages
978-1-4438-8973-5 (ISBN)
Description
Privileged Mobilities contributes to a growing school of critical studies of tourism. Mobility is about power and space. In this anthology, a series of questions are raised regarding privileged mobiles - who travels, where and whence, and why - not least from the standpoint of class, gender, ethnicity and citizenship. The authors portray tourism as a force of re- and de-territorialization: tourism conquers, re-encodes and exploits everything from sea bottom to outer space: places, cultures, histories and life sequences.To paraphrase Guy Debord, tourism "e,is the mode of appropriation of the natural and human environment by capitalism, which true to its logical development toward absolute domination, can (and now must) refashion the totality of space into its own decor."e, In a touristified world, we all become tourists and are fostered to see, experience and act accordingly - whether we want to or not. The tourist emerges as the ideal subject, an a-political being, steeped in experience, adventure and enjoyment.
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Privileged Mobilities
Tourism as World Ordering
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02/2016
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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Content
- Intro
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Ukraine, May 2006
- Chapter One
- Chapter Two
- Chapter Three
- Chapter Four
- Chapter Five
- Chapter Six
- Chapter Seven
- Bibliography
- List of Contributors
