Title & Author:

Islands after tourism : escaping the monocultures of leisure / edited by George Papam, David Bergé.

Publication:

Athens : Kyklàda.press, 2023.

Description:

81 pages, 16 pages of plates : color illustrations ; 17 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Hospitality fatigue : symptoms and potions / George Papam -- Tourism and stickiness / Matilde Córdoba Azcárate -- Gavdos : exploring the otherness at the edge of the Mediterranean / Angelos Varvarousis -- Revelations from the Ministry of Future Tourism / Arturo Desimone -- Bittersweet legacies and mobile commoning / Mimi Sheller.

Summary:

"Tourism does more than transforming spaces and forcing emotions: its geographies also conceal a persisting power that captures the imagination. In their operational sturdiness, tourismscapes appear intractable and inert, making their alternative renderings almost unthinkable. It feels uncanny to picture islands and their coasts freed from programs of leisure. But in recent years, the exhaustion of people and landscapes has brought forth a renewed imperative to think outside this ubiquitous extractive industry. Through essays, pieces of fiction, and visual references, this book discusses both the difficulty and the necessity of disrupting the monocultural imaginations of tourism. To escape the devouring vortex of its sticky nature and messianic promises, the cultural and political work necessary is not only this of negation and resistance, but also that of bold re-conceptualizations and re-imaginings" -- Back cover.

ISBN:

9789464772623
946477262X

Subject:

Tourism Social aspects.
Leisure industry Social aspects.
Tourism Mediterranean Region.
Tourism Caribbean Area.
Coasts Mediterranean Region.
Culture and tourism Mediterranean Region.
Culture and tourism Caribbean Area.
Loisirs Industrie Aspect social.
Ethnotourisme Caraïbes (Région)

Added entries:

Papam, George, editor.
Bergé, David, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main y 325392
Call No.: 325392
Copy: 1
Status: Available