Impact of Tourism in East Africa

A Ruinous System

AvAnne Storch,Angelika Mietzner

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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This book explores the relationship between imperial formations and individual encounters at African tourist sites – spaces of leisure, healing and work. It examines how encounters between tourists and hosts tend to be constructed along colonial thought lines and considers how players in the hospitality industry do not interact as coeval participants, but are racialised, scripted and positioned according to colonially-established order. The authors focus on the language of these encounters, not only speech, performance and response, but also silence, resonance, emptiness, noise – objectified, materialised, evasive and confusing. Through its exploration of language in these encounters, the volume shows that ruination is the one feature that is omnipresent in the multiple and diverse tourist settings of the postcolonial world. This book is open access under a CC BY ND licence.

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Utgivningsdatum:2021-05-25
Mått:156 x 234 x 11 mm
Vikt:304 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Tourism and Cultural Change
Antal sidor:175
Förlag:Channel View Publications Ltd
ISBN:9781845418366

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Anne Storch is a Professor in the Institute of African Studies at the University of Cologne, Germany. She has published widely on African languages, African sociolinguistics, tourism and critical heritage studies, metalinguistic discourse and colonial linguistics.Angelika Mietzner is a Senior Lecturer in the Institute of African Studies at the University of Cologne, Germany. Her research interests include Nilotic languages, African sociolinguistics, anthropological linguistics and tourism.

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Colleagues who wish to adopt postcolonial approaches to their work on language often do not know where to begin. I can think of no better text than this one to get them started, given how it seamlessly acknowledges commonalities while celebrating diversities, articulates marginalized voices while cultivating intertextualities, and balances empirical accountability with social responsibility.

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Figures and BoxesAbbreviationsCheck-inChapter 1. BoardingChapter 2. Terrible Magical Ways of HealingChapter 3. The Philosophy of Hakuna MatataChapter 4. KarenChapter 5. Highway to HellChapter 6. Ruins on the BeachChapter 7. Relocation and RelationshipsChapter 8. On Various BoundariesChapter 9. Hostility on a T-ShirtChapter 10. Movies on Sex Tourism that You Shouldn’t MissChapter 11. The Ancient SpeakerChapter 12. Cooking ClassChapter 13. Glossy GlossaryReferencesIndex