Seductions of place
Subtitle: geographical perspectives on globalization and touristed landscapes
By: Carolyn Cartier & Alan A. Lew.
Contributors: Cartier, Carolyn L.; Lew, Alan A.
Series: Critical geographies
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
Subjects: Geographical perception; Landscape assessment; Tourism -- Social aspects; Human geography
Description: "The seductiveness of touristed landscapes is simultaneously local and global, as travelled places are formed and reworked by the activities of diverse, mobile people, in their desires to experience situated, sensuous qualities of difference. Cartier and Lew’s interesting and informative book explores contemporary issues in travel and tourism and human geography, and the complex cultural, political, and economic activities at stake in touristed landscapes as a result of globalization. This book assesses travel and tourism as simultaneously cultural and economic processes, through ideas about place seduction and the formation of landscapes. Throughout, examples are given from urban and environmental touristed landscapes, from major world cities to tropical islands."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Touristed landscapes/seductions of place / Carolyn Cartier; title: Flirting with space : tourism geographies as sensuous/expressive practice; title: / David Crouch; title: Tourism and the modern subject : placing the encounter between tourist and other / Tim Oakes; title: The souvenir and sacrifice in the tourist mode of consumption / Jon Goss; title: Tourism economy : the global landscape / Ginger Smith; title: Silicon values : miniaturization, speed, and money; title: / Dean Maccannell; title: Bellagio and beyond / Claudio Minca; title: Seducing global capital : reimaging space in Melbourne and Sydney / C. Michael Hall; title: Urbanscape as attraction : the case of Guangzhou / Ning Wang; title: San Francisco and the Left Coast / Carolyn Cartier; title: Tourist weddings in Hawai'i : consuming the Destination / Mary G. McDonald; title: Maintaining the myth : Tahiti and its islands; title: / Anne-Marie d'Hauteserre; title: Tourism development and seascapes of the Caribbean : uncertain images / Janet Henshall Momsen; title: The contested beach : resistance and resort development in Antigua, West Indies / Jeff Baldwin; title: Desiring Ahimsa, sexing landscape in China's Stone Forest / Margaret Byrne Swain; title: "New Asia-Singapore" : a concoction of tourism, place, and image / T.C. Chang and Shirlena Huang; title: Is the Great Wall of China the Great Wall of China? / Trevor H.B. Sofield and Fung Mei Sarah Li; title: Existential tourism and the homeland : the overseas Chinese experience / Alan A. Lew and Alan Wong; title: Centering tourism geography / Alan A. Lew and Carolyn Cartier .