ISBN:
0816666059
,
0816666067
,
9780816678440
,
9780816666058
,
9780816666065
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xxxix, 313 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
A Quadrant Book
Parallel Title:
Print version Tourist State : Performing Leisure, Liberalism, and Race in New Zealand
DDC:
306.48190993
Keywords:
Tourism Social aspects
;
Leisure
;
Maori (New Zealand people) Social conditions
;
Tourism Political aspects
;
Liberalism
;
National characteristics, New Zealand
;
Liberalism -- New Zealand
;
Maori (New Zealand people) -- Social conditions
;
Leisure -- New Zealand
;
Tourism -- Political aspects -- New Zealand
;
Tourism -- Social aspects -- New Zealand
;
New Zealand -- Race relations
;
Leisure ; New Zealand
;
Liberalism ; New Zealand
;
Maori (New Zealand people) ; Social conditions
;
National characteristics, New Zealand
;
New Zealand ; Race relations
;
Tourism ; Political aspects ; New Zealand
;
Tourism ; Social aspects ; New Zealand
;
Electronic books
;
New Zealand Race relations
Abstract:
No longer the dreary sheep farm at the end of the world, the New Zealand of the new millennium is a hot global ticket, heralded for its bicultural dynamism, laid-back lifestyle, and scenery extraordinary enough to pass for Tolkien's Middle Earth. How this image was crafted is the story The Tourist State tells. In a series of narratives that address the embodied dimensions of biopolitics and explore the collision of race, performance, and the cultural poetics of the state, Margaret Werry exposes the real drama behind the new New Zealand, revealing how a nation was sold to the world-and to itsel
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Note on Orthography; Introduction: Toward a Performance Theory of the State; 1. The State of Nature: Governmentality, Biopoetics, Sensation; 2. The Class Act of Guide Maggie: Cosmopolitesse, Publics, and Participatory Anthropology; 3. Translation, Transnation: Theatrical Politics and Political Theater in the American Pacific; 4. Traficking Race: Policy, Property, and Racial Reformation in the Tourist State; 5. Altered States: Global Hollywood, the Rise of Wellywood, and the Moving Image of Race; Conclusion: Living in a Tourist State; Acknowledgments; Notes; Glossary; A; H; I
Description / Table of Contents:
KM; P; T; U; W; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Z
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.5749/minnesota/9780816666058.001.0001
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