Real Tourism: Practice, Care, and Politics in Contemporary Travel Culture (Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility, 26, Band 26) - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 0415582245 ISBN 13: 9780415582247

Verlag: Routledge, 2011

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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. There is a need for the field to come to terms theoretically with the contemporary and future realities of tourism as a truly global phenomenon. This significant volume seeks to set the theoretical agenda, engaging directly with what tourism does in practice and in place and demonstrate the need for a theoretical intervention that moves tourism scholarship beyond the province of Anglophone thinking. The volume achieves this by explicitly bridging 'western' and 'non-western' scholarship on tourism; reframing theoretical discussions around 'real practices' instead of abstract typologies; and radically delinking tourism theory from the grand narratives of modernity and assumptions about authenticity, identity, tradition, and development.

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Claudio Minca is Head and Professor of the Cultural Geography Department at Wageningen University, The Netherlands, and Research Professor of Geography at Royal Holloway, the University of London, UK.

Tim Oakes is Professor of Geography at the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0415582245
• ISBN 13: 9780415582247
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 280
• Herausgeber: Minca Claudio, Oakes Tim
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