The Importance of Elsewhere (eBook)

The Globalist Humanist Tourist

Randy Malamud (Autor)

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2018
234 Seiten
Intellect Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78320-875-3 (ISBN)

Infos

This book is a collection of essays rooted in Randy Malamud’s own lifetime of travel. Setting today’s tourism in the context of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century experiences of travel and travel writing, he uncovers motives and appreciations of movement, difference and novelty, key drivers of our interest in and enjoyment of travel today.

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Why do we travel? What are we doing - and what do we imagine we are doing - when we leave the house, get on a plane and thereby step into globalism? The Importance of Elsewhere is a collection of essays, rooted in Randy Malamud's own lifetime of travel, that addresses those questions and more. Setting today's tourism in the context of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century experiences of travel and travel writing, he uncovers motives and appreciations of movement, difference and novelty that are deeply woven into the imperial enterprise - and that remain key drivers of our interest in and enjoyment of travel today. Marrying concrete case studies and lively personal anecdotes, The Importance of Elsewhere will be of interest to any global traveler who has ever stopped to wonder what it is that draws her to faraway places.

Autor

lt;p>Randy Malamud is the Regents' Professor of English at Georgia State University and the author of eight books, including Reading Zoos: Representations of Animals and Captivity and Poetic Animals and Animal Souls. He regularly writes for Salon and The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Inhalt

Home and Away

Randy Malamud

 

Should I Stay or Should I go?

Randy Malamud

 

Travel or Tourism 

Randy Malamud

 

Fear of Flying

Randy Malamud

 

Travel Reading: Reading Travel

Randy Malamud

 

'The Importance of Elsewhere'

Randy Malamud

 

LEEDS: Literary Tourism

Randy Malamud

 

ŁÓDŹ: Monty Python's Academic Circus

Randy Malamud

 

COPENHAGEN: Projecting a Triumphant Queer Moment

Randy Malamud

 

LONDON: Sex 2.0

Randy Malamud

 

COTTBUS: Weltspiegel

Randy Malamud

 

BAGHDAD: Reconstructing Iraqi Academe

Randy Malamud

 

TIERRA DEL FUEGO: Penguins at the End of the World

Randy Malamud

 

ZAGREB: The Subversive Summit

Randy Malamud

 

SZOLNOK: Science and Film

Randy Malamud

 

BERLIN: Gestapo Headquarters

Randy Malamud

 

DUBAI: A Cinematic Door to the Middle East

Randy Malamud

 

WARSAW: The Bores of Academe

Randy Malamud

 

COURMAYEUR: Noir

Randy Malamud

 

SVALBARD: Introduction to Arctic Studies

Randy Malamud

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.3.2018
• Verlagsort: Bristol
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseführer
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Europe • Globalism • Humanism • psychogeography • Tourism • Travel • T. S. Eliot
• ISBN-10: 1-78320-875-9 / 1783208759
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78320-875-3 / 9781783208753