Seductions of place geographical perspectives on globalization and touristed landscapes / edited by Carolyn Cartier and Alan A. Lew.
| Other author | Cartier, Carolyn L. |
| Other author | Lew, Alan A. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London ; New York : Routledge, |
| Description | xii, 340 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Series | Critical geographies ; 19 |
| Contents | Touristed landscapes/seductions of place / Carolyn Cartier -- Flirting with space : tourism geographies as sensuous/expressive practice -- / David Crouch -- Tourism and the modern subject : placing the encounter between tourist and other / Tim Oakes -- The souvenir and sacrifice in the tourist mode of consumption / Jon Goss -- Tourism economy : the global landscape / Ginger Smith -- Silicon values : miniaturization, speed, and money -- / Dean Maccannell -- Bellagio and beyond / Claudio Minca -- Seducing global capital : reimaging space in Melbourne and Sydney / C. Michael Hall -- Urbanscape as attraction : the case of Guangzhou / Ning Wang -- San Francisco and the Left Coast / Carolyn Cartier -- Tourist weddings in Hawai'i : consuming the destination / Mary G. McDonald -- Maintaining the myth : Tahiti and its islands -- / Anne-Marie d'Hauteserre -- Uncertain images : tourism development and seascapes of the Caribbean / Janet Henshall Momsen -- The contested beach : resistance and resort development in Antigua, West Indies / Jeff Baldwin -- Desiring Ashima, sexing landscape in China's Stone Forest / Margaret Byrne Swain -- "New Asia-Singapore" : a concoction of tourism, place, and image / T. C. Chang and Shirlena Huang -- Is the Great Wall of China the Great Wall of China? / Trevor H. B. Sofield and Fung Mei Sarah Li -- Existential tourism and the homeland : the overseas Chinese experience / Alan A. Lew and Alan Wong -- Centering tourism geography / Alan A. Lew and Carolyn Cartier. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2004002731 |
| ISBN | 0415192188 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0415192196 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | ebook |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |