The ethics of sightseeing / Dean MacCannell.
Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011. Description: xvi, 271 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780520257832; 9780520257832 (pbk. : alk. paper)Other title: The ethics of sight-seeingSubject(s): Tourism -- Moral and ethical aspects | Sightseeing business -- Moral and ethical aspectsDDC classification: 338.4/791 LOC classification: G155. | A1M15 2011
Contents:
The ubiquitous tourist and postmodern paranoia. Tourist/other and the unconscious -- Staged authenticity today -- Recent trends in research and the new moral tourism. Why sightseeing? -- Toward an ethics of sightseeing -- Trips and their reason -- City and countryside as symbolic constructs. The tourist in the urban symbolic -- Looking through the landscape -- The imagination versus the imaginary. An imaginary symbolic: from Piranesi to Disney -- The touristic attitude: acceding to the imaginary -- The Bilbao effect: ethical symbolic representation -- Painful memory -- The intentional structure of tourist imagery -- Tourist agency.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-253) and index.
The ubiquitous tourist and postmodern paranoia. Tourist/other and the unconscious -- Staged authenticity today -- Recent trends in research and the new moral tourism. Why sightseeing? -- Toward an ethics of sightseeing -- Trips and their reason -- City and countryside as symbolic constructs. The tourist in the urban symbolic -- Looking through the landscape -- The imagination versus the imaginary. An imaginary symbolic: from Piranesi to Disney -- The touristic attitude: acceding to the imaginary -- The Bilbao effect: ethical symbolic representation -- Painful memory -- The intentional structure of tourist imagery -- Tourist agency.