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Real Tourism - Practice, Care, and Politics in Contemporary Travel Culture (Paperback)
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Real Tourism - Practice, Care, and Politics in Contemporary Travel Culture (Paperback)
Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility
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Over the past decade, tourism studies has broken out of its
traditional institutional affiliation with business and management
programs to take its legitimate place as an interdisciplinary
social science field of cutting edge scholarship. The field has
emerged as central to ongoing debates in social theory concerning
such diverse topics as postcolonialism, mobility, and
postmodernism, to name just a few. While there has been a diverse
body of empirical research on this transformation the theoretical
discussions in tourism studies remain largely attached to theories
of modernity and Anglo-centric assumptions about tourism. There is
a need for the field to come to terms theoretically with the
contemporary and future realities of tourism as a truly global
phenomenon. Real Tourism is a significant volume which sets this
new theoretical agenda, engaging directly with what tourism does in
practice and in place and demonstrates the need for a theoretical
intervention that moves tourism scholarship beyond the province of
Anglophone thinking. The volume achieves this by explicitly
bridging 'western' and 'non-western' scholarship on tourism;
reframing theoretical discussions around 'real practices' instead
of abstract typologies; and radically delinking tourism theory from
the grand narratives of modernity and assumptions about
authenticity, identity, tradition, and development. The book brings
together leading academics in the field and provides provocative
multidisciplinary and multi-contextual reflection on the future of
tourism. This original, timely and compelling volume puts forward
new post modernist ideas and arguments about tourism today and in
the future. It is essential reading for students, researchers and
academics interested in Tourism.
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