Cara Aitchison, Nicola E Macleod

Leisure and Tourism Landscapes

Social and Cultural Geographies

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Increasingly significant as mediators of spatial identity and meaning, leisure, tourism, culture and heritage are only now beginning to be located within the rapidly evolving discourses of poststructuralist geographies. Exploring the influence of leisure and tourism on the production, representation and consumption of landscape, the first half of this important book focuses on different ways of a seeinga (TM) or representing landscape, whereas the second half examines different forms of productive consumption in leisure and tourism. Both symbolic and material spaces of leisure and tourism are also examined in relation to urban and rural landscapes, heritage landscapes, gendered landscapes, and landscapes of sexuality and desire. With a multidisciplinary approach and a strong theoretical content which builds on poststructuralist theories, this is undoubtedly an important addition to literature in the field.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 158mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 331g
• ISBN-13: 9780415271660
• ISBN-10: 0415271665
• Artikelnr.: 21985514

Autorenporträt

Cara Aitchison is Reader in Leisure Policy and Cultural Theory in the Leisure and Sport Research Unit at Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education. Her research and teaching draw on her background in geography, leisure and tourism studies, and gender studies. Nicola E. MacLeod is Senior Lecturer in Leisure and Cultural Management in the Business School at the University of North London. Her research and teaching are informed by her background in English literature and leisure studies and her current research interests include the interpretation of heritage resources and the development and representation of cultural tourism destinations. Stephen J. Shaw is Senior Lecturer in Transport and Tourism Management in the Business School at the University of North London. His research and teaching draw on his background in geography and urban planning, including social equity in tourism-led regeneration of disadvantaged areas.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction A place for leisure and tourism? From geography to
geographies Theorising the social-cultural nexus Social and cultural
geographies of leisure and tourism landscapes 2. Locating Landscapes:
Geographies of Lesiure and Tourism Introduction Colonial geographies:
mapping regional territories Systematic geographies: modelling land use and
tourism Landscape evaluations: mapping scenic amenity in leisure and
tourism Tourism geographies: topologies of land use Structuralist
interpretations of leisure and tourism landscapes Post-colonial geographies
of leisure and tourism Geography's cultural turn: the spatiality of leisure
and tourism Leisure geographies of the street Tourism geographies of the
spectacle and monument Geographies of social and cultural exclusion
Overview 3. Moving Landscpaes: Leisure and Tourism in Time and Space
Introduction The Journey, travel and discovery Prospects of pleasure,
landscapes of feeling Annihilating time and distance Landscape, leisure and
mobility Road to nowhere? Overview 4. Valuing the Countryside: Leisure,
Tourism and the Rural Landscape Introduction Nature was His book Access and
exclusion Landscape fit for heroes A people's charter for the open air A
countryside for all? Overview 5. Introduction A landscape aesthetic? The
socio-cultural context Landscape and imaginative reconstuction The
Highlands of Scotland Ossianic tourism The Highlander in the picture The
Highlands of Walter Scott Travelling in the Highlands Royal Patrons A
Literary way of seeing The real Highlands Overview 6. Heritage Landscapes:
Merging Past and Present Introduction The evolution of heritage Heritage in
the landscape Stonehenge: multi-vocal landscape Avebury: evolving landscape
Tintagel: mythical landscape Overview 7. Gendered Landscapes: Constructing
and Consuming Leisure and Tourism Inroduction Spatialised feminism Feminism
and leisure landscapes Gendered space Deconstructing dualisms The gendered
other Gender and landscapes of tourism Gender and landscapes of heritage
Overview 8. Retrophilia and the Urban Landscape Introduction Antiquity,
restoration and fake Reverence, worldliness and action Modernism,
collective memory and amnesia Urban conservation and civic pride
Commercialism, decadence and tourism The historic quarters of London's City
Fringe Overview 9. Landscapes of Desire: Reappropriating the City
Introduction Queer space: material and symbolic landscapes Gay
destinations: the landscape of the city Sexuality and spectacle: the
landscape of the street Sexuality and hospitality: the landscape of the
hotel Overview 10. Leisure, Tourism and Culture: Relocating Landscapes