David Crouch (ed.)

Leisure/Tourism Geographies

Practices and Geographical Knowledge
Herausgegeben:Crouch, David

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Leisure and Tourism Geographies considers leisure/tourism as an encounter. An encounter that exists between people, between people and space and between people and their expectations, experiences and desires.
The contributors explore diverse aspects of leisure and tourism, ranging from the methodologies behind leisure practices to detailed case studies including: _Disneyland, Paris
_tourism in sacred landscapes
_leisure practices in cyberspace
_leisure and yachting
_use of recreational/holiday cottages
_National Parks, local parks and gardens
Presenting an exciting mix of attitudes and ideas concerning leisure and tourism, this book documents a lively debate, placing geography at its centre.

Produktdetails

• Critical Geographies
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis; Routledge
• 1999.
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 600g
• ISBN-13: 9780415181082
• ISBN-10: 0415181089
• Artikelnr.: 22121751

Autorenporträt

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