Tourism, Magic and Modernity e-bog
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Drawing from extended fieldwork in La Runion, in the Indian Ocean, the author suggests an innovative re-reading of different concepts of magic that emerge in the global cultural economics of tourism. Following the making and unmaking of the tropical island tourism destination of La Runion, he demonstrates how destinations are transformed into magical pleasure gardens in which human life is cul...
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265,81 DKK
Forlag
Berghahn Books
Udgivet
1 september 2011
Længde
206 sider
Genrer
1HS
Sprog
English
Format
pdf
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9780857452023
Drawing from extended fieldwork in La Runion, in the Indian Ocean, the author suggests an innovative re-reading of different concepts of magic that emerge in the global cultural economics of tourism. Following the making and unmaking of the tropical island tourism destination of La Runion, he demonstrates how destinations are transformed into magical pleasure gardens in which human life is cultivated for tourist consumption. Like a gardener would cultivate flowers, local development policy, nature conservation, and museum initiatives dramatise local social life so as to evoke modernist paradigms of time, beauty and nature. Islanders who live in this 'human garden' are thus placed in the ambivalent role of 'human flowers', embodying ideas of authenticity and biblical innocence, but also of history and social life in perpetual creolisation.