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  • Contesting the Foreshore

    Tourism, Society and Politics on the Coast

    by Jeremy Boissevain, Tom Selwyn ...
    Series series MARE Publication Series
    This collection of essays is about tourism and social, political, and economic relations in coastal locations in various parts of the world. The starting point of each chapter is the ethnographic study of one particular place. However, the authors are also concerned with wider regional, national, and global forces which shape and influence the local economies and societies under review. Although ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Why Travel?

    Understanding our Need to Move and How it Shapes our Lives

    by Terry Hill, Tom Greenall, Deborah Saunt, Glenn Lyons, Emily Thomas, Hazel Andrews, Tom Selwyn, Alison Kuznets, Roger Hall, Kris Beuret, Alexander Jan1, Tony Hiss2, Charles Pasternak3 ...
    Supported by the Independent Transport Commission (ITC): a registered charityWhy travel? What motivations underpin the journeys we make? And how can we make decisions that improve our travel experiences?Arguing that the desire to move is a purpose in itself, this book brings together leading experts to provide insights from multiple viewpoints across the sciences, arts and humanities. Together, ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Thinking Through Tourism

    Edited by Julie Scott, Tom Selwyn ...
    Series series ASA Monographs
    The study of tourism has made key contributions to the study of anthropology. This volume defines the current state of the anthropology of tourism, examining political, economic, ideological and symbolic themes. An extraordinarily rich collection of case studies illustrate topics as diverse as hospitality, sex and tourism, enchantment, colonial and neo-colonial consumption, and the relation ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Anthropology of Tourism in Central and Eastern Europe

    Bridging Worlds

    by Sabina Owsianowska, Magdalena Banaszkiewicz, Tom Selwyn, Maarja Kaaristo, Anna Wieczorkiewicz, Maria Zowislo, Carla Bethmann, Natalia Bloch0, Agata Bachórz1, Anna Sznajder2, Katarzyna Kosmala3, Armin Mikos von Rohrscheidt4, Malgorzata Nieszczerzewska5, Michael Zinganel6, Malgorzata Radkiewicz7, Nelson Graburn8 ...
    Series series The Anthropology of Tourism: Heritage, Mobility, and Society
    In Anthropology of Tourism in Central and Eastern Europe: Bridging Worlds, Sabina Owsianowska and Magdalena Banaszkiewicz examine the limitations of the anthropological study of tourism, which stem from both the domination of researchers representing the Anglophone circle as well as the current state of tourism studies in Central and Eastern Europe. This edited collection contributes to the wider ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • Travelling towards Home

    Mobilities and Homemaking

    Edited by Nicola Frost, Tom Selwyn ...
    Series Book 3 - Articulating Journeys: Festivals, Memorials, and Homecomings
    As we grapple with a growing refugee crisis, a hardening of anti-immigration sentiment, and deepening communal segregation in many parts of the developed world, questions of the nature of home and homemaking are increasingly critical. This collection brings ethnographic insight into the practices of homemaking, exploring a diverse range of contexts ranging from economic migrants to new Chinese ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Thinking Through Tourism

    Edited by Julie Scott, Tom Selwyn ...
    Series series Association of Social Anthropologists Monographs
    The study of tourism has made key contributions to the study of Anthropology. This volume defines the current state of the Anthropology of Tourism, examining political, economic, ideological and symbolic themes.An extraordinarily rich collection of case studies illustrate topics as diverse as hospitality, sex and tourism, enchantment, colonial and neo-colonial consumption, the relation between ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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  • Cultural Tourism in a Changing World

    Politics, Participation and (Re)presentation

    Edited by Melanie Kay Smith, Prof. Mike Robinson ...
    Series Book 7 - Tourism and Cultural Change
    At the interface between culture and tourism lies a series of deep and challenging issues relating to how we deal with issues of political engagement, social justice, economic change, belonging, identity and meaning. This book introduces researchers, students and practitioners to a range of interesting and complex debates regarding the political and social implications of cultural tourism in a ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • 50 Years Of Urban Planning In Singapore

    by Chye Kiang Heng ...
    Series series World Scientific Series On Singapore's 50 Years Of Nation-building
    50 Years of Urban Planning in Singapore is an accessible and comprehensive volume on Singapore's planning approach to urbanization. Organized into three parts, the first section of the volume, 'Paradigms, Policies, and Processes', provides an overview of the ideologies and strategies underpinning urban planning in Singapore; the second section, 'The Built Environment as a Sum of Parts', delves ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Tourism and Sustainability

    Development, globalisation and new tourism in the Third World

    by Martin Mowforth, Ian Munt ...
    By January 2015 the world’s richest 80 people had as much wealth as the poorest 50 per cent of the world’s population. It is a global unevenness through which the barriers to in-migration of Third World migrants to wealthy First World nations go ever higher, while the barriers to travel in the reverse direction are all but extinct.So how exactly does tourism contribute to narrowing this glaring ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • The Whole Picture

    The colonial story of the art in our museums & why we need to talk about it

    by Alice Procter ...
    "Probing, jargon-free and written with the pace of a detective story... [Procter] dissects western museum culture with such forensic fury that it might be difficult for the reader ever to view those institutions in the same way again. " Financial Times'A smart, accessible and brilliantly structured work that encourages readers to go beyond the grand architecture of cultural institutions and see ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

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  • An Introduction to Island Studies

    by James Randall ...
    Island Studies can be deceptively challenging and rewarding for an undergraduate student. Islands can be many things: nations, tourist destinations, quarantine stations, billionaire baubles, metaphors. The study of islands offers a way to take this 'bewildering variety' and to use it as a lens and a tool to better understand our own world of islands.An Introduction to Island Studies is an ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The Final Call

    Investigating Who Really Pays For Our Holidays

    by Leo Hickman ...
    No industry in the world employs more people or is the world's largest foreign currency earner than tourism. Long billed as the cleanest industry for developing countries to invest in, tourism seems to offer everyone involved a positive experience.This is the official line, anyway. In truth, the reality is much more complex . For The Final Call Hickman travels the world on a range of holidays and ... Read more

    $19.09 USD