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Islands After Tourism

Escaping the Monocultures of Leisure

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Tourism does more than transforming spaces and forcing emotions: its geographies also conceal a persisting power that captures the imagination. In their operational sturdiness, tourismscapes appear intractable and inert, making their alternative renderings almost unthinkable. It feels uncanny to picture islands and their coasts freed from programs of leisure. But in recent years, the exhaustion of people and landscapes has brought forth a renewed imperative to think outside this ubiquitous extractive industry. Through essays, pieces of fiction, and visual references, this book discusses both the difficulty and the necessity of disrupting the monocultural imaginations of tourism. To escape the devouring vortex of its sticky nature and messianic promises, the cultural and political work necessary is not only this of negation and resistance, but also that of bold re-conceptualizations and re-imaginings.

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96 pages, 102 x 162 mm
illustrations: color and b/w
printing: offset
ISBN: 978-9-464772-62-3
language: English
available: fall 2023

 

Hospitality Fatigue:
Symptoms and Potions
by George Papam

Tourism and Stickiness
by Matilde Córdoba Azcárate

Gavdos: Exploring Otherness
at the Edge of the Mediterranean
by Angelos Varvarousis

Revelations from the Ministry of
Future Tourism
by Arturo Desimone

Bittersweet Legacies
and Mobile Commoning
by Mimi Sheller

edited by
George Papam
David Bergé

the production of this book
is funded in part
by a grant awarded by the
Yale Environmental Humanities Program




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