Postcolonial Tourism - Literature, Culture, and Environment

Informationen zum Autor Anthony Carrigan is Lecturer in English at Keele University, UK. He has published on a range of postcolonial topics including tourism, environment, and indigeneity, and has contributed to special issues of the Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies and ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment on postcolonial ecocriticism. Klappentext This book examines representations of tourism in relation to some of the most charged areas of postcolonial debate, including ecology, globalization, neoliberal development, and indigenous rights. It argues that postcolonial writers not only dramatize the industry's most exploitative operations but also provide blueprints toward sustainable tourism futures. Zusammenfassung This book examines representations of tourism in relation to some of the most charged areas of postcolonial debate, including ecology, globalization, neoliberal development, and indigenous rights. It argues that postcolonial writers not only dramatize the industry’s most exploitative operations but also provide blueprints toward sustainable tourism futures. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Part 1: Tourism and Nature 1. Visual Perception and Touristed Landscapes 2. Contested Environments: Tourism, Indigeneity, and Ideologies of Development 3. Tourism, Desecration, and Sacred Land Part 2: Tourism and Culture 4. Touristification and Cultural Sustainability 5. Tourism and Reindigenization Part 3: Sex, Tourism, and Embodied Experience 6. Sex Tourism, Beach Ecology, and Compound Disaster 7. Gendered Islands, Tourism, and Prostitution Discourse 8. Conclusion: Storytelling, Postcapitalism, and Interdisciplinarity

Product details

• Authors: Anthony Carrigan, Carrigan Anthony
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.12.2010
• EAN: 9780415882736
• ISBN: 978-0-415-88273-6
• No. of pages: 278
• Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Cultural Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American, Social groups, Sports & outdoor recreation, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Tourism industry, Retail and wholesale industries, Sports and Active outdoor recreation, Literary studies: postcolonial literature, Social groups, communities and identities