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Thanatourism and Cinematic Representations of Risk - Screening the End of Tourism (Paperback)
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Thanatourism and Cinematic Representations of Risk - Screening the End of Tourism (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology
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In today's world, the need to eliminate natural and human-made
disasters has been at the forefront of national and international
socio-political agendas. The management of risks such as terrorism,
labour strikes, protests and environmental degradation has become
pivotal for countries that depend on their economy's tourist
sector. Indeed, there is fear that that 'the end of tourism' might
be nigh due to inadequate institutional foresight. Yet, in
designing relevant policies to tackle this, arts such as that of
filmmaking have yet to receive due consideration. This book adopts
an unorthodox approach to debates about 'the end of tourism'.
Through twenty-first century cinematic narratives of symbolically
interconnected 'risks' it considers how art envisages the future of
humanity's well-being. These 'risks' include: migration as an
infectious disease; alien incursions as racialized labour
mobilities; cyborg rebellion as the fear of post-colonial
otherness; and zombie anthropophagy as the replacement of rooted
identities by nomadic lifestyles. Such filmic scenarios articulate
the futuristic survival of community as the triumph of the
technological human over otherness, and provide a means to debate
societal risks that weave identity politics into unequal
mobilities. This book will appeal to researchers and students
interested in mobilities theory, tourism and travel theory, film
studies and aesthetics, globalisation studies, race, labour and
migration.
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