ISBN:
9780203754900
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (201 S.)
Series Statement:
Routledge Advances in Tourism
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Aitchison, Cara, 1965 - Leisure and tourism landscapes
DDC:
306.4/812
Keywords:
Electronic books
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Freizeiteinrichtung
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Tourismus
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Tourismus
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Gesellschaft
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Wandel
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Tourismus
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Ländlicher Raum
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Fremdenverkehrsgebiet
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Fremdenverkehrsgeografie
Abstract:
Increasingly significant as mediators of spatial identity and meaning, leisure, tourism, culture and heritage are only now beginning to be located within the rapidly evolving discourses of poststructuralist geographies.Exploring the influence of leisure and tourism on the production, representation and consumption of landscape, the first half of this important book focuses on different ways of 'seeing' or representing landscape, whereas the second half examines different forms of productive consumption in leisure and tourism. Both symbolic and material spaces of leisure and tourism are also ex
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; HalfTitle; TitlePage; CopyrightPage; Tableof Contents; Acknowledgements; 1.Introduction; A place for leisure and tourism?; From geography to geographies?; Theorising the social-cultural nexus; Social and cultural geographies of leisure and tourismlandscapes; 2.Locating landscapes: geographies of leisure and tourism; Introduction; Colonial geographies: mapping regional territories; Systematic geographies: modelling land use and tourism; Landscape evaluations: mapping scenic amenity in leisureand tourism; Tourism geographies: typologies of land use
Description / Table of Contents:
Structuralist interpretations of leisure and tourismlandscapesPost-colonial geographies of leisure and tourism; Geography's cultural turn: the spatiality of leisure andtourism; Leisure geographies of the street; Tourism geographies of the monument and spectacle; Geographies of social and cultural exclusion; Overview; 3.Moving landscapes: leisure and tourism in time and space; Introduction; The journey, travel and discovery; Prospects of pleasure, landscapes of feeling; Annihilating time and space; Landscape, leisure and mobility; Road to nowhere?; Overview
Description / Table of Contents:
4.Valuing the countryside: leisure, tourism and the rural landscapeIntroduction; Nature was his book; Access and exclusion; Landscape fit for heroes; A people's charter for the open air; A countryside for all; Overview; 5.Representing landscapes: literary and artistic ways of seeing; Introduction; A landscape aesthetic; The socio-cultural context; Landscape and imaginative reconstruction; The Highlands of Scotland; Ossianic tourism; The Highlander in the picture; The Highlands of Walter Scott; Travelling in the Highlands; Royal patrons; A literary way of seeing; The real Highlands?; Overview
Description / Table of Contents:
6.Heritage landscapes: merging past and presentIntroduction; The evolution of heritage; Heritage in the landscape; Stonehenge: multi-vocal landscape; Avebury: evolving landscape; Tintagel: mythical landscape; Overview; 7.Gendered landscapes: constructing and consuming leisure and tourism; Introduction; Spatialised feminism; Feminism and leisure landscapes; Gendered space; Deconstructing dualisms; The gendered Other; Gender and landscapes of tourism; Gender and landscapes of heritage; Overivew; 8.Retrophilia and the urban landscape: reinterpreting the city; Introduction
Description / Table of Contents:
Antiquity, restoration and fakeReverence, worldliness and action; Modernism, collective memory and amnesia; Urban conservation and civic pride; Commercialism, decadence and tourism; The historic quarters of London's City Fringe; Overview; 9.Landscapes of desire: reappropriating the city; Introduction; Queer space: material and symbolic landscapes; Gay destinations: the landscape of the city; Sexuality and spectacle: the landscape of the street; Sexuality and hospitality: the landscape of the hotel; 10.Relocating landscapes: leisure, tourism and culture; Introduction; References; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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