Performing tourist places

Performing tourist places

by Baerenholdt, Jorgen Ole

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This book looks at the making and the consuming of places in the contemporary world. Illustrated through various case-studies from Denmark, it considers how places, performances and peoples intersect. It examines the fascinating circumstances through which visitors to a place, in part, produce that place through their performances. Places are intertwined with people through various systems that generate and reproduce performances in and of that place. These systems comprise networks of 'hosts, …

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Performing tourist places / Jorgen Ole Baerenholdt ... [et al.].

Summary

This book looks at the making and the consuming of places in the contemporary world. Illustrated through various case-studies from Denmark, it considers how places, performances and peoples intersect. It examines the fascinating circumstances through which visitors to a place, in part, produce that place through their performances. Places are intertwined with people through various systems that generate and reproduce performances in and of that place. These systems comprise networks of 'hosts, guests, buildings, objects and machines' that contingently realize particular performances of specific places. The studies featured here develop an exciting 'new mobility' paradigm emerging within the social sciences.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2004.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Ashgate
  • Place of Publication:Aldershot, England
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:©2004.

Notes

Índices.

The Physical Object

  • Description:XIV, 167 p. : : il.

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780754638384, 0754638383
  • oclc:ocn758203785

Subjects

Turismo Turismo -- Aspecto social

Writers

Baerenholdt, Jorgen Ole

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