Cinematic tourist mobilities and the plight of development : on atmospheres, affects and environments

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Cinematic tourist mobilities and the plight of development : on atmospheres, affects and environments

Rodanthi Tzanelli

(Routledge advances in sociology, 253)

Routledge, 2019

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It is said that movies have encroached upon social realities creating tourism enclaves based on distortions of history and heritage, or simulations that disregard both. What localities and nation-states value are discarded, suppressed, or modified beyond recognition in neoliberal markets; thus flattening out human experience, destroying natural habitats in the name of development, and putting the future of whole ecosystems at risk. Without disregarding such developmental risks Cinematic Tourist Mobilities and the Plight of Development explores how, en route to any beneficial or eco-destructive development, film tourist industries co-produce atmospheres of place and culture with tourists/film fans, local activists, and nation-states. Drawing on international examples of cinematically-induced tourism and tourismophobic activism, Tzanelli demonstrates how the allegedly unilateral industry-driven 'design' of location stands at a crossroads between political structures, systems of capitalist development, and resurgent localised agency. With an interdisciplinary methodological and epistemological portfolio connected to the new mobilities paradigm, this volume will appeal to scholars, students, and practitioners interested in tourism, migration, and urban studies in sociology, anthropology, geography, and international relations.

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Chapter 1_Introduction Chapter 2_On touring the world: an epistemontological frame Phantasmagoric palimpsests: twenty-first-century cinematic tourist atmospheres Cities and countrysides: toward a new cinematic tourist mobilities paradigm Western/European practice on the bar? Heritage and the holistic plea for life Chapter 3_Attuning and aligning: synaesthesia and the making of worlds An ecoaesthetics of worldmaking in cinematic pilgrimage A primer in epistemontological investigation Chapter 4_Mobile design: a purposeful pilgrimage into cinematic tourist sites Carving mobilities: a preliminary statement Poly-graphic design: a selection of case studies The island of order(-ing): freedoms and burdens in Orientalisation Chapter 5_The 'hubris of the zero point': three responses Towards a choreutics of ecosocial action Epistemic misalignment Hospitality Postindustrial disobedience Islands of disorder and choreosophies of potentia Chapter 6_Crafting the impossible, meddling with the anthropocenic puzzle Classroom experiments, lessons learned Windows of darkness: degrowing and enfolding Windows of hope: from heritage to identity reinterpretation Bibliography

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