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Drawing upon theories of landscape and performance, this work
weaves together existing tourism literature with new scholarship to
forge a geographically informed theory of tourism. Such a theory
integrates the ways in which places are co-produced, circulated,
interpreted, experienced, and performed for and by tourists,
tourism boards, and even as everyday spaces. Bringing together
theories of ritual, Peircean semiotics, ideology, and performance,
the authors blend the often separate literatures of tourism sites
and touristic practices. Whereas most tourism texts focus on a part
of the 'tourism equation'-the tourism site, or the tourist
experience-a geographic theory of tourism brings these constituent
parts together in thinking about notions of place. Place processes
are central to geography as well as tourism studies because tourism
facilitates encounters with distinct locations. As this book
argues, considering tourism as performative draws disparate areas
of tourism theory together to better understand the ways tourism
happens in and across places.
How do we re-theorize tourism? By drawing less on the Foucauldian
notion of 'tourism as gazing' and instead focusing on the social
construction of meaning in the landscape, this insightful book
provides an innovative and compelling new approach to tourist
studies. Arguing that in any view of the landscape and in tourism
generally there is a multiplicity of insider and outsider meanings,
the book grounds tourism studies within the framework of social
theory, and particularly in the social theoretic approaches to
landscape. Bringing together specialists in tourism and landscape
studies to discuss the relationships between the two, it finds that
issues of identity are a common thread and are raised with regard
to the social construction of landscape and its portrayal through
tourism. The international studies range in scale from regional to
national, personal to political, and from local residents to
international tourists, highlighting the multiplicity of
interpretations and meanings between these scales.
Drawing upon theories of landscape and performance, this work
weaves together existing tourism literature with new scholarship to
forge a geographically informed theory of tourism. Such a theory
integrates the ways in which places are co-produced, circulated,
interpreted, experienced, and performed for and by tourists,
tourism boards, and even as everyday spaces. Bringing together
theories of ritual, Peircean semiotics, ideology, and performance,
the authors blend the often separate literatures of tourism sites
and touristic practices. Whereas most tourism texts focus on a part
of the 'tourism equation'-the tourism site, or the tourist
experience-a geographic theory of tourism brings these constituent
parts together in thinking about notions of place. Place processes
are central to geography as well as tourism studies because tourism
facilitates encounters with distinct locations. As this book
argues, considering tourism as performative draws disparate areas
of tourism theory together to better understand the ways tourism
happens in and across places.
How do we re-theorize tourism? By drawing less on the Foucauldian
notion of 'tourism as gazing' and instead focusing on the social
construction of meaning in the landscape, this insightful book
provides an innovative and compelling new approach to tourist
studies. Arguing that in any view of the landscape and in tourism
generally there is a multiplicity of insider and outsider meanings,
the book grounds tourism studies within the framework of social
theory, and particularly in the social theoretic approaches to
landscape. Bringing together specialists in tourism and landscape
studies to discuss the relationships between the two, it finds that
issues of identity are a common thread and are raised with regard
to the social construction of landscape and its portrayal through
tourism. The international studies range in scale from regional to
national, personal to political, and from local residents to
international tourists, highlighting the multiplicity of
interpretations and meanings between these scales.
The advanced capitalist nations are currently undergoing an
enormous economic, social, and political transformation. At the
heart of this transformation is the transition between large scale,
standardized production (Fordism) and new, more flexible approaches
to manufacturing (flexibility), and a concomitant extension of
manufacturing to include products both concrete (goods) and
ephemeral (services). This volume explores the consequences of this
transition from the standpoints of technology, labor relations,
firm strategy, education, government programs, and geography. The
book is a collection of papers by well-known scholars investigating
the current global transition from mass consumption and production
to flexible production for niche markets. The book is unique in
that it not only discusses standard economic concerns, but also
investigates the social and political implications of this
transition. Each chapter is concerned with a different aspect of
the same restructuring process.
The advanced capitalist nations are currently undergoing an
enormous economic, social, and political transformation. At the
heart of this transformation is the transition between large scale,
standardized production (Fordism) and new, more flexible approaches
to manufacturing (flexibility), and a concomitant extension of
manufacturing to include products both concrete (goods) and
ephemeral (services). This volume explores the consequences of this
transition from the standpoints of technology, labor relations,
firm strategy, education, government programs, and geography. The
book is a collection of papers by well-known scholars investigating
the current global transition from mass consumption and production
to flexible production for niche markets. The book is unique in
that it not only discusses standard economic concerns, but also
investigates the social and political implications of this
transition. Each chapter is concerned with a different aspect of
the same restructuring process.
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