ABSTRACT
Front and Back Stage of Tourism Performance situates our travel imaginaries, those dream destinations on our travel bucket lists, as co-constructed by the tourist industry, state development policies, and community negotiations, and as framed by modernity’s new global cultural economy. As more people travel for pleasure than ever before, host communities and intermediaries are presented with tourism opportunities that all too often become flashpoints for local contestation and mechanisms for displacement.
The ethnographically-grounded chapters describe tourist encounters shaped by geopolitics, complicated by war, and troubled by and enacted within the economic inequities of neocolonialism. The points of contact afford a unique vantage from which to view cultural identity, entrepreneurial strategizing, and natural resource management as global politics and relations of difference. They also illustrate the power of social networks, cultural display, and artistic performance as collective presentation, management apparatus, and structural critique.
Drawing on a range of international case studies, this book will appeal to those interested in tourism, anthropology, global studies, environmental issues, microeconomics, and identity studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part Part 1|34 pages
Managing Tourism during War Time
chapter 1|14 pages
Loose lips can sink tourism
part Part 2|38 pages
Staging Tourism as Identity Performance and Structural Critique
chapter 3|15 pages
The presentation of collective self in touristic life
chapter 4|21 pages
Violence as tourist spectacle in eastern Indonesia
part Part 3|46 pages
Mediating Tourism Transactions and Neoliberal Logics
part Part 4|38 pages
Imagining Tourism and the Production of Place
chapter 8|16 pages
Tropicality, purified spaces, and the colonial gaze
part Part 5|39 pages
Hosting Sustainable Tourism and Global Geopolitics