The tourism imaginary and pilgrimages to the edges of the world
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The tourism imaginary and pilgrimages to the edges of the world
（Tourism and cultural change, 44）
Channel View Publications, c2015
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This book examines how the growth of tourism in locations that have historically been considered geographically remote plays a major role in the consolidation and transformation of often longstanding and powerful cultural imaginaries about 'the edges of the world'. The contributors examine the attraction of the sublime, remoteness, continental border-points, and the dangers of the sea in Finisterre (or Fisterra) in Galicia (Spain); Finistere in Brittany (France); Land's End, Cornwall (England); Lough Derg (Ireland); Nordkapp or North Cape (Norway); Cape Spear, Newfoundland (Canada); and Tierra del Fuego (Argentina). While those travelling to these locations can be seen to be conducting some form of religious or secular pilgrimage, those who live in them have long contended with the implications of economic and political marginalization within global political economies.
Table of Contents
1. Sharon R. Roseman and Nieves Herrero: Introduction
2. Nieves Herrero: Galicia's Finisterre and Coast of Death
3. Charles Menzies: At the End of the Road: Reflections on Finistere, Land's End, France
4. Michael Ireland: Land's End, Cornwall, England
5. Lawrence J. Taylor and Maeve Hickey: Pilgrimage to the Edge: Lough Derg and the Moral Geography of Europe and Ireland
6. Jens Kr. Steen Jacobsen: North Cape - In the Land of the Midnight Sun
7. Wayne Fife and Sharon R. Roseman: Where North America Ends
8. Laura M. Horlent and Monica C. Salemme: Finis Terrae: The End-of-the-World Imaginary in Tierra del Fuego (Argentina)
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