Ethics of Sightseeing

AvDean MacCannell

Inbunden, Engelska, 2011

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Is travel inherently beneficial to human character? Does it automatically educate and enlighten while also promoting tolerance, peace, and understanding? In this challenging book, Dean MacCannell identifies and overcomes common obstacles to ethical sightseeing. Through his unique combination of personal observation and in-depth scholarship, MacCannell ventures into specific tourist destinations and attractions: 'picturesque' rural and natural landscapes, 'hip' urban scenes, historic locations of tragic events, Disney theme parks, beaches, and travel poster ideals. He shows how strategies intended to attract tourists carry unintended consequences when they migrate to other domains of life and reappear as 'staged authenticity'. Demonstrating each act of sightseeing as an ethical test, the book shows how tourists can realize the productive potential of their travel desires, penetrate the collective unconscious, and gain character, insight, and connection to the world.

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Utgivningsdatum:2011-05-19
Mått:152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt:590 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520257825

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Dean MacCannell is Professor Emeritus of Environmental Design at the University of California, Davis, and is the author of The Tourist (UC Press).

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"Provocatively illustrated and supported by excellent references... Highly recommended." -- B. Osborne Choice "MacCannell acts as an erudite and entertaining companion throughout this discursive and profound text." -- Chris Vaughan Metapsychology Online Review "Intellectually stimulating, the product of a prodigious intellect, the book is provided with illuminating sidebars, brilliant notes to chapters, as well as a comprehensive index and bibliography." -- Nilak Datta Annals Of Tourism Research "The Ethics of Sightseeing is challenging, insightful, and frustrating all at the same time... All readers of this provocative study will be drawn into the fascinating conversation." -- David M. Wrobel American Studies Journal

Innehållsförteckning

List of Illustrations Preface Prologue: I Was a Tourist at Freud House, London Part One. The Ubiquitous Tourist and Postmodern Paranoia 1 Tourist/Other and the Unconscious 2 Staged Authenticity Today Part Two. Recent Trends in Research and the New Moral Tourism 3 Why Sightseeing? 4 Toward an Ethics of Sightseeing 5 Trips and Their Reason Part Three. City and Countryside as Symbolic Constructs 6 The Tourist in the Urban Symbolic 7 Looking Through the Landscape Part Four. The Imagination Versus the Imaginary 8 An Imaginary Symbolic: From Piranesi to Disney 9 The Touristic Attitude: Acceding to the Imaginary 10 The Bilbao Effect: Ethical Symbolic Representation 11 Painful Memory 12 The Intentional Structure of Tourist Imagery 13 Tourist Agency Appendix: Tourism as a Moral Field Notes Index