Fire dancers in Thailand's tourism industry art, affect, and labor / Tiffany Rae Pollock.

Author/creator Pollock, Tiffany Rae
Format Electronic
Publication InfoIthaca : Southeast Asia Program Publications, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2024.
Description1 online resource.
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Subjects

Contents Transforming fire dance surfaces -- The energy of artists -- Feeling art and the labor of sharing -- The affinitive labor of freedom -- The everyday comfort of practice -- Striving on Koh Phi Phi -- Fire dance femininities -- Feeling together.
Abstract "An ethnography of fire dancers in Thailand's tourism industry that highlights how dancers employ affect to fulfill tourists' imaginaries and to negotiate the precarity and possibilities of touristic labor. Tracing affect through performance and everyday life, the book examines how dancers reimagine their labor and lives"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
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Issued in other formPrint version: Pollock, Tiffany Rae. Fire dancers in Thailand's tourism industry Ithaca : Southeast Asia Program Publications, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2024 9781501774928
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LCCN 2023045585
ISBN9781501774959 (epub)
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