Journeys in Contemporary Cultural Politics
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/02/1999
Tackling the dearth of politically-engaged work on travel and tourism, this book aims to provide a counter-narrative of travel-worlds shaped by the divergent legacies of colonialism, crusades, migration, diaspora, displacement, tourism, ethnography, political insurgency and transnationalization. Issues addressed in the book include: north-south traffic in hip hop, kung-fu and sex tourism; missionaries in India; academics in the west; St George as an Arab soldier in the crusades; the Indian-Pakistan border, displacement and defiance; mobile resistance to nation-state hegemonies in Bangladesh; the international market value of dead tourists; pop personalities, MTV and souvenir culture; diasporized Mirpuri youth on travel; touring black women, pleasure islands; and ethnographers abroad. The contributors refuse simplistic dichotomies of north/south and east/west, and confront head on existing conventions of writing about travel in post-colonial, literary and cultural studies.
- ISBN:
- 9781856495622
- 9781856495622
- Category:
- Cultural studies
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 01-02-1999
- Publisher:
- Zed Books Ltd
- Country of origin:
- United Kingdom
- Pages:
- 192
- Dimensions (mm):
- 216x135x15mm
- Weight:
- 0.25kg
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