Tourism and the power of otherness
Subtitle: seductions of difference
By: edited by David Picard and Michael A. Di Giovine
Series: Tourism and cultural change
Publisher: Channel View Publications
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Bristol; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9781845414160; 9781845414153; 9781845414177
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Tourism; Psychological aspects; Culture and tourism; Other (Philosophy); Difference (Psychology)
Description: This book explores the paradoxes of Self-Other relations in the field of tourism. It particularly focuses on the 'power' of different forms of 'Otherness' to seduce and to disrupt, and, eventually, also to renew the social and cosmological orders of 'modern' culture and everyday life. Drawing on a series of ethnographic case studies, the contributors investigate the production, socialisation and symbolic encompassment of different 'Others' as a political and also an economic resource to govern social life in the present. The volume provides a comparative inductive study on the modernist philosophical concepts of time, 'otherness' and the self in practice and relates it to contemporary tourism and mobility.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.