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Seductions of Place - Geographical Perspectives on Globalization and Touristed Landscapes (Paperback, New)
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Seductions of Place - Geographical Perspectives on Globalization and Touristed Landscapes (Paperback, New)
Series: Critical Geographies
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"Seductions of Place" explores questions at the crossroads of
contemporary issues in travel and tourism, human geography, and the
complex cultural, political, and economic activities at stake in
touristed landscapes as a result of globalization. The
seductiveness of touristed landscapes is simultaneously local and
global, as travelled places are formed and reworked by the
activities of diverse, mobile people in their desires to experience
situated, sensuous qualities of difference.
The initial chapters link the existing literature on mobility and
travel with current theoretical perspectives in human geography.
They include a theorization of the concepts of place and landscape
and the importance of tourism in the world economy to move research
on tourism to a central position in geographic research. Chapter
contributions include an analysis of the representational character
of landscape and the built environment, historic constructions of
place seduction, the importance of class, racial, and gender
dimensions of place, how mobility and the seduction of place orient
identity formation, the role of tourism in the world economy, local
tourism economies in relation to the global economy, and the
environmental impacts of tourism economies. Throughout the book,
examples are given from urban and environmental touristed
landscapes, from major world cities to tropical islands.
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