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Mapping Tourism (Paperback)
Stephen P. Hanna; Contributions by Vincent J. Del Casino Jr
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R667
Discovery Miles 6 670
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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At first glance, the relationships among tourists, tourism maps,
and the spaces of tourism seem straightforward enough: tourists use
maps to find their way to and through the sites of history,
culture, nature, or recreation represented there. Less apparent is
how tourism maps and those using them construct such spaces and
identities. As the essays in Mapping Tourism clearly demonstrate,
the extraordinary interaction of work with leisure and the everyday
with the exotic makes tourism maps ideal sites for exploring the
contested construction of place and identity. Construction sites in
the "New Berlin, " Alabama's civil rights trail, Quebec City, a
California ghost town, and Bangkok's sex trade are among the spaces
the essays examined. Taken together, these essays allow us to see
tourist space as it truly is: contested, ever changing, and replete
with issues of power.
Derrida and the Future of the Liberal Arts highlights the Derridean
assertion that the university must exist 'without condition' - as a
bastion of intellectual freedom and oppositional activity whose job
it is to question mainstream society. Derrida argued that only if
the life of the mind is kept free from excessive corporate
influence and political control can we be certain that the basic
tenets of democracy are being respected within the very societies
that claim to defend democratic principles. This collection
contains eleven essays drawn from international scholars working in
both the humanities and social sciences, and makes a well-grounded
and comprehensive case for the importance of Derridean thought
within the liberal arts today. Written by specialists in the fields
of philosophy, literature, history, sociology, geography, political
science, animal studies, and gender studies, each essay traces
deconstruction's contribution to their discipline, explaining how
it helps keep alive the 'unconditional', contrapuntal mission of
the university. The book offers a forceful and persuasive
corrective to the current assault on the liberal arts.
"Derrida and the Future of the Liberal Arts" highlights the
Derridean assertion that the university must exist 'without
condition' - as a bastion of intellectual freedom and oppositional
activity whose job it is to question mainstream society. Derrida
argued that only if the life of the mind is kept free from
excessive corporate influence and political control can we be
certain that the basic tenets of democracy are being respected
within the very societies that claim to defend democratic
principles.This collection contains eleven essays drawn from
international scholars working in both the humanities and social
sciences, and makes a well-grounded and comprehensive case for the
importance of Derridean thought within the liberal arts today.
Written by specialists in the fields of philosophy, literature,
history, sociology, geography, political science, animal studies,
and gender studies, each essay traces deconstruction's contribution
to their discipline, explaining how it helps keep alive the
'unconditional', contrapuntal mission of the university. The book
offers a forceful and persuasive corrective to the current assault
on the liberal arts.
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