Tourism and Postcolonialism: Contested Discourses, Identities and Representations

by Michael C. Hall (Editor), Hazel Tucker (Editor)

Overview

Due to its centrality to the processes of transnational mobilities, migration and globalization, tourism studies has the potential to make a significant contribution to understanding the postcolonial experience. Drawing together theoretical and applied research, this fascinating book illuminates the links between tourism, colonialism and postcolonialism. Significantly, it creates a space for the voices of authors from postcolonial countries.

Chapters are integrated and examined through concepts taken from the wider postcolonial literature, which identify tourism not only as an international industry but also as a postcolonial cultural form, which by its very nature is based on past and present day colonial structural relationships.

The first book to explicitly explore the contribution tourism can make to the postcolonial experience, this book is an essential read for students of tourism, cultural studies and geography.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415758826
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/28/2014
Series:	Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.20(d)

About the Author

C. Michael Hall is Professor of Tourism, and Hazel Tucker is Senior Lecturer of Tourism, both at the Department of Tourism, University of Otago, New Zealand.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Tourism and New Sense: World-Making and the Enunciative Value of Tourism 3. Saying the Same Old Things with New Words: The Language of the Travel Mediator: Travel Discourses and Narratives in the Popular Magazine Travel Texts 4. Ethnic Tourism in Postcolonial Environments 5. About Romance and Reality: European Imagery in Postcolonial Tourism in Southern Africa 6. Re-Inventing the Square: Postcolonial Geographies and the Tourist Gaze in Jamaa el Fna, Marrakech 7. Post-Apartheid Monuments: The Visual Representation of Heritage and Cultural Tourism 8. Tourism and British Colonial Heritage in Malaysia and Singapore 9. Levuka, Fiji: A Colonial Town for Neo-Colonial Tourism 10. Tourism and Postcolonial Relationships: The Case of Malta 11. Neocolonialism, Dependency and External Control of Africa's Tourism Industry: A Case-Study of Wildlife Safari Tourism in Kenya 12. Using Cultural Tourism to Promulgate New National Myths 13. Tourism Structures in Post-Apartheid South Africa 14. Globalization as Neocolonialist Tourism Conclusions