Christine Metusela, Gordon Waitt

Gebundenes Buch

Tourism and Australian Beach Cultures

Revealing Bodies

Beschreibung

This book explores the ever-changing relationships between bodies, oceans, beaches and tourism. Drawing on feminist scholarship, the book focuses on the emergence of Australian beach cultures beyond metropolitan centres from the early 19th century to the early 20th century on the Illawarra beaches, some 80 kilometres south of Sydney.

Autor

Christine Metusela is an early career researcher currently conducting research for Neuroscience Research Australia and the University of New South Wales on projects funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council that address key questions about Aboriginal health and ageing and improving service provision for early onset dementia. Her PhD thesis explored social geographies of the beach. In particular, it focused on the transformations of the social relationships that forged the Illawarra beaches in NSW, Australia as a leisure and tourism space. Gordon Waitt is Associate Professor in the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Wollongong, New South Wales. He is part of a larger team of researchers at the Australian Centre for Cultural Environmental Research (AUSCCER). His research interests include gender, sexuality, place, cultures and tourism. In addition to numerous articles and book chapters he co-authored Introducing Human Geography (Longman-Pearson Education Australia, 2000) and Gay Tourism: Culture and Context (Haworth Press, 2006).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Multilingual Matters Limited
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 154mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 360g
• ISBN-13: 9781845412869
• ISBN-10: 1845412869
• Artikelnr.: 34789329