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Tourism, Tradition and Culture - David Harrison

Tourism, Tradition and Culture

A Reflection on their Role in Development

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Buch | Hardcover
320 Seiten
2020
CABI Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-78924-589-9 (ISBN)
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David Harrison reflects on the role of tourism in development and its conflict with culture, tradition and the need for sustainability. The book deliberates David's research from the past 30 years, which looks at the impacts of tourism on societies emerging from Western colonialism and societies previously part of the Soviet system.
David Harrison has contributed to the academic study of tourism over the last 30 years. This book brings together a collection of his published material that reflects the role played by tourism in 'development', both in societies emerging from Western colonialism and in societies previously part of the Soviet system. The overarching theme looks at how, promoted as a tool for development, tourism can lead to conflict between competing elites, but can also empower groups previously subject to constraint by traditional authorities. Tradition is intensely manipulatable and always reflects power relations. Such pressure on tradition is but one aspect of tourism's wider social impacts. This includes changes in economic and social structure, which, for many, constitute social problems that need to be addressed. At the same time, 'sustainability', though apparently a worthy aim, can be a problematic concept, especially when applied to 'traditional' cultures, and may conflict with such ideals as egalitarianism.

is a sociologist/anthropologist of development and has spent two decades teaching sociology at Sussex University in the UK and later taught for nine years at the University of the South Pacific and for ten years at London Metropolitan University, before going to Middlesex University in 2014. His basic approach to development issues emerged in his single-authored text The Sociology of Modernization and Development (1988), and he went on to edit numerous books on tourism, including Tourism and the Less Developed Countries (1992), Tourism and the Less Developed World (2001) and Pacific Island Tourism (2003), and co-editor of many others, including The Politics of World Heritage (with Michael Hitchcock (2005), and Tourism in Pacific Islands (with Stephen Pratt) (2015). He has also written numerous papers in refereed journals and chapters in books on tourism and development. A Fellow of the International Academy for the Study of Tourism, David imbued the sociological perspective when an undergraduate and since then has been fascinated by social behaviour in different societies. Since the late 1980s, his key research interests have been the global role of tourism as a development tool, with particular reference to tourism's economic, social and cultural impacts. He has carried out research in the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, Southern Africa, South-east Asia and the South Pacific.

1: Essaying Tourism: Reflections on three decades of international tourism 2: Tourism, Capitalism and Tradition. 3: Tradition, Modernity and Tourism in Swaziland 4: Tourism and Prostitution: Sleeping with the Enemy? The Case of Swaziland, 5: Tourism and Less Developed Countries: Key Issues. 6: 'Sustainability and Tourism: Reflections from a Muddy Pool. 7: Learning from the Old South by the New South? The Case of Tourism. 8: The World Comes to Fiji: Who Communicates What, and to Whom? 9: Islands, Image and Tourism. 10: Tourism in Pacific Islands. 11: Contested Narratives in the Domain of World Heritage 12: Lao Tourism and Poverty Alleviation: Community-based Tourism and the Private Sector (with Stephen Schipani). 13: Pro-poor Tourism: A Critique. 14: Cocoa, Conservation and Tourism: Grande Riviere, Trinidad,. 15: Tourism Culture(s): The Hospitality Dimension (with Peter Lugosi) 16: 'Towards Developing a Framework for Analysing Tourism Phenomena: A Discussion. 17: Tourism and Development: From Development Theory to Globalisation. 18: Looking East but Learning from the West: Mass Tourism and Emerging Nations. 19: Mass Tourism in a Small World (with Richard Sharpley) 20: Tourism, Mobilities and Paradigm 21: Anthropologists, Development and Tourism: Networks, Encounters and Shadows of a Colonial Past. 22: Looking Ahead

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Wallingford
Sprache englisch
Maße 172 x 244 mm
Gewicht 930 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie Volkskunde
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10 1-78924-589-3 / 1789245893
ISBN-13 978-1-78924-589-9 / 9781789245899
Zustand Neuware
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