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Tourism and the Globalization of Emotions - The Intimate Economy of Tango (Paperback)
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Tourism and the Globalization of Emotions - The Intimate Economy of Tango (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality
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Today, an increasing number of people from all over the world
travel to Buenos Aires to dance tango. To accommodate these
intimate voyagers, tourist agencies offer travel packages,
including classes in tango instruction, dance shoe shopping, and
special city maps pointing out the tango clubs in town. Some of
these agencies even provide "taxi dancers" - mainly Argentine men,
who make a living by selling themselves as dance escorts to foreign
women on a short term stay. Based on a cheek-to-cheek ethnography
of intimate life in the tango clubs of Buenos Aires, this book
provides a passionate exploration of tango - its sentiments and
symbolic orders - as well as a critical investigation of the
effects of globalization on intimate economies. Throughout the
chapters, the author assesses how, in an explosive economic and
political context, people's emotional lives intermingle with a
tourism industry that has formed at the intersection of close
embrace dances and dollars. Bringing economies of intimacy centre
stage, the book describes how a global condition is lived bodily,
emotionally and politically, and offers a rich, provocative
contribution to theorizing today's global flows of people, money,
and fragile dreams. As the narrative charts a course across a sea
of intense, immediate emotional sensations, taken-for-granted ideas
about sex, romance and power twist and turn like the steps of the
tango.
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