Tourist utopias: biopolitics and the genealogy of the post-world tourist city

Current Issues in Tourism

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 27-59

  Simpson, Tim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

Author keywords

enclave; immaterial labour; mobility; neoliberal; sovereignty; utopia; world city

Indexed keywords

GENEALOGY; METROPOLITAN AREA; PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP; SOVEREIGNTY; TOURISM; TOURIST ATTRACTION; TOURIST BEHAVIOR; URBAN AREA;

CHINA; DUBAI [UNITED ARAB EMIRATES]; LAS VEGAS; MACAU; NEVADA; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84955204500     PISSN: 13683500     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13683500.2015.1005579     Document Type: Review

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