Thinking through tourism / edited by Julie Scott and Tom Selwyn
Imprint
Oxford : Berg, 2010
Edition
English ed
Descript
xxiv, 261 p. : ill., 1 map ; 24 cm
CONTENT
Introduction : thinking through tourism : framing the volume / Julie Scott and Tom Selwyn -- Contours of a nation : being British in Mallorca / Hazel Andrews -- The sex of tourism? : bodies under suspicion in paradise / Susan Frohlick -- Belonging at the cottage / Julia Harrison -- Tourists, developers and civil society : on the commodification of Malta's landscapes / Jeremy Boissevain -- Enchanted sites, prosaic interests : traders of the bazaar in Aleppo / Annika Rabo -- Tropical island gardens and formations of modernity / David Picard -- Of Jews, Christians and travellers in Crete : recovered 'roots', unwanted heritage / Vassiliki Yiakoumaki -- Tourist attractions, cultural icons, sites of sacred encounter : engagements with Malta's Neolithic temples / Kathryn Rountree -- 'Hotel Royal' and other spaces of hospitality : tourists and migrants in the Mediterranean / Ramona Lenz -- Anthropology, tourism and intervention? / Simone Abram