Leisure/Tourism Geographies: Practices and Geographical Knowledge de David Crouch

Leisure/Tourism Geographies: Practices and Geographical Knowledge: Critical Geographies

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 sep 1999

Leisure and Tourism Geographies considers leisure/tourism as an encounter. An encounter that exists between people, between people and space and between people and their expectations, experiences and desires.
The contributors explore diverse aspects of leisure and tourism, ranging from the methodologies behind leisure practices to detailed case studies including: *Disneyland, Paris
*tourism in sacred landscapes
*leisure practices in cyberspace
*leisure and yachting
*use of recreational/holiday cottages
*National Parks, local parks and gardens
Presenting an exciting mix of attitudes and ideas concerning leisure and tourism, this book documents a lively debate, placing geography at its centre.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415181099
ISBN-10: 0415181097
Pagini: 310
Ilustrații: 10 b&w photographs
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.6 kg
Ediția:UK edition
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Critical Geographies

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Undergraduate

Notă biografică

David Crouch is Senior University Research Fellow at the University of Derby and visiting Professor of Geography and Tourism at Karlstadt University, Sweden.

Cuprins

List if plates, List if contributors, Acknowledgements, 1. Introduction: encounters in leisure/tourism, 2. The mytho-poetic in northern travel, 3. Sensing leisure spaces, 4. Parks and gardens: metaphors for the modern places of sport, 5. Heritage and nationalism: gender and the performance of power, 6. Hyper-reality in the official (re)construction of leisure sites: the case of rambling, 7. Narrativised spaces: the functions of story in the theme park, 8. Cultural contestation at Disneyland Paris, 9. Nomadic-symbolic and settler-consumer leisure practices in Poland, 10. Tourism and sacred landscapes, 11. Design versus leisure: social implications of functionalist design in urban private gardens of the twentieth century, 12. Consuming pleasures: food, leisure and the negotiation of sexual relations, 13. Where you want to go today (like it or not): leisure practices in cyberspace, 14. That sinking feeling: elitism, working leisure and yachting, 15. Leisure places and modernity: the use and meaning of recreational cottages in Norway and the USA, 16. Leisure lots and summer cottages as places for people's own creative work, 17. Knowing, tourism and practices of vision, 18. The intimacy and expansion of space, 19. Knowledge by doing: home and identity in a bodily perspective, Name index, Subject index

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Exploring diverse aspects of leisure and tourism, this book presents an exciting mix of attitudes and ideas ranging from the methodologies behind leisure practices to detailed case studies which include Disneyland Parisand leisure in cyberspace

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