‘What a wonderful world!’: On the ‘touristic ways of seeing’, the knowledge and the politics of the ‘culture industries of otherness’

Tourist Studies

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 51-81

  Favero, Paolo ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

culture industries; globalization; multiculturalism; otherness; politics of representation; spectacle; touristic; vision; ways of seeing

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547102490     PISSN: 14687976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468797607079804     Document Type: Article

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