Towards a geopolitics of tourism

Mostafanezhad, Mary; Norum, Roger

doi:10.1016/j.annals.2016.08.003

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“…There has been an increase in geographical analysis of tourism planning, urban development, tourism policy, and economic and social development through tourism (Brouder & Ioannides, 2014;Rodr ıguez, Williams, & Hall, 2014;Saarinen & Rogerson, 2014;Scheyvens, 1999;Wall & Mathieson, 2006). Research on tourism landscapes, gendered spaces, and many aspects of heritage tourism is gaining prominence among tourism geographers (Aitchison, MacLeod, & Shaw, 2014;Krakover, 2017;Pritchard & Morgan, 2000;Terkenli, 2004;Timothy, 2011), and given the increasingly turbulent world we live in, we are seeing a proliferation in research about globalization, border issues, security and geopolitics in the context of tourism (Gelbman, 2008;Gelbman & Timothy, 2011;Mostafanezhad & Norum, 2016;Prokkola, 2010;Więckowski & Ceri c, 2016).…”

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Geography: the substance of tourism

Timothy

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Tourism Geographies

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Geography: the substance of tourism

Timothy

2017

Tourism Geographies

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“…Despite the fact that tourism is always already geopolitical, little has been written about the geopolitics of tourism (for exceptions, see Dowler, 2013; Lisle, 2016; Mostafanezhad and Norum, 2016; Rowen, 2016). This is perhaps a function of the fact that geopolitical theory has been dominated by “foreign policy centrism” (Coleman, 2013) rather than focused on the more mundane although no less political processes of everyday experience (Cowen and Story, 2013; Dixon and Marston, 2011; Hyndman, 2001, among others).…”

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Spectacle, tourism and the performance of everyday geopolitics

Miller

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2020

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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In recent years scholars have explored the geopolitics of spectacle in exciting ways. While tourism presents a rich opportunity to think about the intersection of geopolitics and spectacle, only a small but growing number of researchers have explored this area where state-society relations unfold in complex ways. This article draws on this work and other traditions in feminist political geography and non-representational theories to explore the embodied geopolitics of a festival and its tourist landscape in the city of Chiang Mai in northern Thailand. As such, we glimpse a complex set of geopolitical relations at play in the multiple spaces of the Yii Peng Festival. A closer look at the Festival with the theoretical tools proposed here helps reveal ongoing geopolitical forces that shape its many contours, including a multiplicity of difference.

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“…These sites of “dark tourism” are shot through with these politics (Lennon & Foley, ; Stone & Sharpley, ), and places of past violence – war, mass death and genocide – attract millions of visitors each year (e.g., Tyner et al., ). While others have elaborated on the embodied dimensions of tourism in general (Crouch & Deforges, ; Edensor, ; Gibson, ; d'Hauteserre, ), there are relatively few but a growing number of contributions on the embodied geopolitics of tourism (see Dowler, ; Gillen, ; Mostafanezhad & Norum, ; Rowen, ).…”

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Negative simulation, spectacle and the embodied geopolitics of tourism

Miller

Casino

2018

Trans Inst British Geog

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This paper builds on recent work on the embodied geopolitics of tourism to investigate the Titan Missile Museum (TMM), a Cold War‐era underground nuclear missile silo and command bunker in the southwest USA. In examining how visitors are not only persuaded to adopt certain attitudes towards the weaponry, but are enrolled in an embodied experience that is active in the formation of subjectivity that emerges from such an encounter, the paper draws on the philosophy of Jean Baudrillard and other non‐representational theorists to argue that this tourism encounter is a negative simulation that can be informed by a better understanding of “hyperreal” spectacle. This spectacle, however, does not simply fall in the realm of representation but is one that engages affect and emotion as important for the emergence of geopolitical subjectivity. While the TMM works to produce what Baudrillard might call a “non‐event” out of nuclear geopolitics, it also takes the risk of getting too close to the bomb by simulating its launch. These dynamics are encapsulated in the highlight of the standard one‐hour tour: the simulation of a missile launch, something that never took place. Drawing on our experience at the TMM and visitor comments left online at Yelp.com, as well as the broader archive of journalism and scholarship on the site, we also sense the possibility of something else emerging out of the embodied and performative materialities that constitute this site of “dark tourism.”

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Towards a geopolitics of tourism

Cited by 39 publications

References 8 publications

Geography: the substance of tourism

Geography: the substance of tourism

Spectacle, tourism and the performance of everyday geopolitics

Negative simulation, spectacle and the embodied geopolitics of tourism

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