Landscape, tourism, and meaning
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Landscape, tourism, and meaning
(New directions in tourism analysis / series editors, Kevin Meethan, Dimitri Ioannides)
Routledge, 2016, c2008
- : pbk
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"First issued in paperback 2016" -- T.p. verso
Bibliography: p. [135]-150
Includes index
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How do we re-theorize tourism? By drawing less on the Foucauldian notion of 'tourism as gazing' and instead focusing on the social construction of meaning in the landscape, this insightful book provides an innovative and compelling new approach to tourist studies. Arguing that in any view of the landscape and in tourism generally there is a multiplicity of insider and outsider meanings, the book grounds tourism studies within the framework of social theory, and particularly in the social theoretic approaches to landscape. Bringing together specialists in tourism and landscape studies to discuss the relationships between the two, it finds that issues of identity are a common thread and are raised with regard to the social construction of landscape and its portrayal through tourism. The international studies range in scale from regional to national, personal to political, and from local residents to international tourists, highlighting the multiplicity of interpretations and meanings between these scales.
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