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Zusatztext " The Ethics of Sightseeing is challenging, insightful, and frustrating all at the same time. . . . All readers of this provocative study will be drawn into the fascinating conversation." Informationen zum Autor Dean MacCannell is Professor Emeritus of Environmental Design at the University of California! Davis! and is the author of The Tourist (UC Press). Klappentext "This is quintessential MacCannell. It is quirky! brilliant! profound! and thought provoking. There are new insights on almost every page. A great read." -Edward Bruner! author of Culture on Tour: Ethnographies of Travel "This is an extraordinary! engaging! and provocative work by one of the distinctive leaders in what has become a lively intellectual field. It also speaks to much broader questions about culture! economy! social life! and experience than the touristic - this is powerful social theory in transit." -Don Brenneis! co-editor of Law and Empire in the Pacific " The Ethics of Sightseeing is vintage MacCannell. It draws together topics-some of which have already appeared as separate papers-in an analytical whole in the same way he did in his original 1976 book The Tourist . And like The Tourist ! this book is full of brilliant insights drawn from personal experiences! anecdotes! and a wide knowledge of the humanistic and social science literature. It is eye-opening and pushes the boundaries of knowledge and disciplines. It will go well beyond academic and classroom audiences in providing a new twist to cultural studies interpretations of modern society." -Nelson Graburn! co-editor of Multiculturalism in the New Japan Zusammenfassung Is travel inherently beneficial to human character? Does it automatically educate and enlighten while also promoting tolerance, peace, and understanding? This title identifies and overcomes common obstacles to ethical sightseeing. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Preface Prologue: I Was a Tourist at Freud House! London Part One. The Ubiquitous Tourist and Postmodern Paranoia 1 Tourist/Other and the Unconscious 2 Staged Authenticity Today Part Two. Recent Trends in Research and the New Moral Tourism 3 Why Sightseeing? 4 Toward an Ethics of Sightseeing 5 Trips and Their Reason Part Three. City and Countryside as Symbolic Constructs 6 The Tourist in the Urban Symbolic 7 Looking Through the Landscape Part Four. The Imagination Versus the Imaginary 8 An Imaginary Symbolic: From Piranesi to Disney 9 The Touristic Attitude: Acceding to the Imaginary 10 The Bilbao Effect: Ethical Symbolic Representation 11 Painful Memory 12 The Intentional Structure of Tourist Imagery 13 Tourist Agency Appendix: Tourism as a Moral Field Notes Index ...
