Festivals, Tourism and Social Change - Remaking Worlds

Klappentext This book explores the links between tourism and festivals and the various ways in which each mobilises the other to make social realities meaningful.Festivals are examined as ways of responding to various forms of crisis - social, political, economic - and as a way of re-making and re-animating spaces and social life.

About the author

David Picard is an anthropologist (PhD, University of La Reunion, France) and is currently working as a research fellow at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. His research interests focus on the cultural economics of international tourism, especially spaces and forms of exchange between hosts and guests. David's previous research has focused on the transformation of transnational contact zones and strategies of accommodating strangers in the post-plantation context of the island of La Réunion, Indian Ocean.
Mike Robinson is Professor of Tourism and Culture and Director of the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change, Leeds Metropolitan University Leeds, UK. Mike has research interests in the way that festivals are mobilised to animate spaces and re-invigorate societies and in the ways in which tourists encounter and experience festivity within cross-cultural contexts.

Product details

• Authors: David Picard, David Picard
• Assisted by: David Picard (Editor), Mike Robinson (Editor), Prof Mike Robinson (Editor)
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.10.2006
• EAN: 9781845410476
• ISBN: 978-1-84541-047-6
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Tourism and Cultural Change; Tourism and Cultural Change
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous