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Item Details
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TRAVEL WORLDS
JOURNEYS IN CONTEMPORARY CULTURAL POLITICS |
| By: |
Raminder Kaur (Editor), John Hutnyk (Editor) |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£47.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1856495612 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781856495615 |
| Publisher: |
ZED BOOKS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
1 February, 1999 |
| Pages: |
192 |
| Description: |
Tackling the dearth of politically-engaged work on travel and tourism, this work provides a counter-narrative on travel-worlds shaped by legacies of colonialism, tourism, political insurgency and so on. Issues addressed include: north-south traffic in sex tourism; and ethnographers abroad. |
| Synopsis: |
African-American musicians head East for Kung-Fu kicks while paedophiles go for cheap sex pilgrimage; Western bible-bashers adopt missionary positions in India while heroic Saint George signs on as an Arab soldier in Britain; the scars of Partition mock the protocols of transit, while nomadic insurgents resist the Bangladeshi nation state with lyrical persuasion; Kula Shaker and Madonna trinketize the 'Orient' while dead tourists exchange values with travelling 'terrorists'; British Mirpuris and Black women travel back to the 'Old Country' and beyond in ways that are not quite as they seem; and ethnographers collide with tourists in the carousel of Goa's resorts. Including poetry and fiction alongside academic essays, this book refuses simplistic dichotomies of north/south and east/west and confronts head on existing conventions of writing about travel in post-colonial, literary and cultural studies.In so doing, it sheds new light on: * the shortcomings of border theories and nation-state parameters * the politics of diasporic and transnational travels * the relations between tourism and terrorism * the limitations of 'alternative' tourism TRAVEL WORLDS plots the politics of diverse journeys; it is 'something of a travel guide, something of a hold-all backpack, and something of another compass'. |
| Illustrations: |
notes, bibliography, index |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Zed Books Ltd |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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