Exploring diverse aspects of leisure and tourism, this book presents an exciting mix of attitudes and ideas ranging from the methodologies behind leisure practices to detailed case studies which include Disneyland Parisand leisure in cyberspace
Exploring diverse aspects of leisure and tourism, this book presents an exciting mix of attitudes and ideas ranging from the methodologies behind leisure practices to detailed case studies which include Disneyland Parisand leisure in cyberspace
David Crouch is Senior University Research Fellow at the University of Derby and visiting Professor of Geography and Tourism at Karlstadt University, Sweden.
Inhaltsangabe
List if plates List if contributors Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: encounters in leisure/tourism 2. The mytho-poetic in northern travel 3. Sensing leisure spaces 4. Parks and gardens: metaphors for the modern places of sport 5. Heritage and nationalism: gender and the performance of power 6. Hyper-reality in the official (re)construction of leisure sites: the case of rambling 7. Narrativised spaces: the functions of story in the theme park 8. Cultural contestation at Disneyland Paris 9. Nomadic-symbolic and settler-consumer leisure practices in Poland 10. Tourism and sacred landscapes 11. Design versus leisure: social implications of functionalist design in urban private gardens of the twentieth century 12. Consuming pleasures: food leisure and the negotiation of sexual relations 13. Where you want to go today (like it or not): leisure practices in cyberspace 14. That sinking feeling: elitism working leisure and yachting 15. Leisure places and modernity: the use and meaning of recreational cottages in Norway and the USA 16. Leisure lots and summer cottages as places for people's own creative work 17. Knowing tourism and practices of vision 18. The intimacy and expansion of space 19. Knowledge by doing: home and identity in a bodily perspective Name index Subject index
List if plates List if contributors Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: encounters in leisure/tourism 2. The mytho-poetic in northern travel 3. Sensing leisure spaces 4. Parks and gardens: metaphors for the modern places of sport 5. Heritage and nationalism: gender and the performance of power 6. Hyper-reality in the official (re)construction of leisure sites: the case of rambling 7. Narrativised spaces: the functions of story in the theme park 8. Cultural contestation at Disneyland Paris 9. Nomadic-symbolic and settler-consumer leisure practices in Poland 10. Tourism and sacred landscapes 11. Design versus leisure: social implications of functionalist design in urban private gardens of the twentieth century 12. Consuming pleasures: food leisure and the negotiation of sexual relations 13. Where you want to go today (like it or not): leisure practices in cyberspace 14. That sinking feeling: elitism working leisure and yachting 15. Leisure places and modernity: the use and meaning of recreational cottages in Norway and the USA 16. Leisure lots and summer cottages as places for people's own creative work 17. Knowing tourism and practices of vision 18. The intimacy and expansion of space 19. Knowledge by doing: home and identity in a bodily perspective Name index Subject index
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