The Ethics of Sightseeing
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The Ethics of Sightseeing

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
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The Ethics of Sightseeing

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About This Book

Is travel inherently beneficial to human character? Does it automatically educate and enlighten while also promoting tolerance, peace, and understanding? In this challenging book, Dean MacCannell identifies and overcomes common obstacles to ethical sightseeing. Through his unique combination of personal observation and in-depth scholarship, MacCannell ventures into specific tourist destinations and attractions: "picturesque" rural and natural landscapes, "hip" urban scenes, historic locations of tragic events, Disney theme parks, beaches, and travel poster ideals. He shows how strategies intended to attract tourists carry unintended consequences when they migrate to other domains of life and reappear as "staged authenticity." Demonstrating each act of sightseeing as an ethical test, the book shows how tourists can realize the productive potential of their travel desires, penetrate the collective unconscious, and gain character, insight, and connection to the world.

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Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2011
ISBN
9780520948655
Edition
1
Topic
Ciencias sociales
Subtopic
Cultura popular

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Illustrations
  4. Preface
  5. Prologue: I Was a Tourist at Freud House, London
  6. PART ONE. THE UBIQUITOUS TOURIST AND POSTMODERN PARANOIA
  7. PART TWO. RECENT TRENDS IN RESEARCH AND THE NEW MORAL TOURISM
  8. PART THREE. CITY AND COUNTRYSIDE AS SYMBOLIC CONSTRUCTS
  9. PART FOUR. THE IMAGINATION VERSUS THE IMAGINARY
  10. Appendix: Tourism as a Moral Field
  11. Notes
  12. Index