Maria Törnqvist

Tourism and the Globalization of Emotions

The Intimate Economy of Tango

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Based on a cheek-to-cheek ethnography of intimate life in the tango clubs of Buenos Aires, this book provides a passionate exploration of tango - its sentiments and symbolic orders - as well as a critical investigation of the effects of globalization on intimate economies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 150mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 617g
• ISBN-13: 9780415892209
• ISBN-10: 0415892201
• Artikelnr.: 37043122

Autorenporträt

Maria Törnqvist is a sociologist conducting ethnographic research on tango dancing. She has also published on Swedish gender equality politics and has written a prize-winning teaching book in feminist theory (with Katharina Tollin). For the 2006 academic year she was a visiting scholar at the Sociology department at UC Berkeley. She is currently a lecturer at the Department of Education, Uppsala University.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Introduction 1. Intimate Voyages in Global Times Part II: Values in
Argentine Tango Dancing 2. The Production of Belief 3. An Intimate Dance
Economy 4. Voyages Out of the Ordinary 5. Trading Tango Part III:
Negotiating Tango Tourism 6. Tourists and Other Tourists 7. Commercialized
Tango Intimacy 8. Sex, Romance and Tango 9. Dancing Geographies Part IV:
Conclusion 10. Tango Tourism: Between Market Adaption and Cultural
Resistance. Appendix: Notes from a Dancing Researcher.