Fire dancers in Thailand's tourism industry art, affect, and labor / Tiffany Rae Pollock.
| Author/creator | Pollock, Tiffany Rae |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Ithaca : Southeast Asia Program Publications, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2024. |
| Description | 1 online resource. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| 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 note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Pollock, Tiffany Rae. Fire dancers in Thailand's tourism industry Ithaca : Southeast Asia Program Publications, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2024 9781501774928 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2023045585 |
| ISBN | 9781501774959 (epub) |
| ISBN | (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 9781501774942 (pdf) |
| ISBN | (paperback) |