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Travel worlds: journeys in contemporary cultural politics

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posted on 2023-06-07, 16:32 authored by Raminder KaurRaminder Kaur, John Hutnyk
Tackling the dearth of politically-engaged work on travel and tourism, this book aims to provide a counter-narrative of travel-worlds shaped by the divergent legacies of colonialism, crusades, migration, diaspora, displacement, tourism, ethnography, political insurgency and transnationalization. Issues addressed in the book include: north-south traffic in hip hop, kung-fu and sex tourism; missionaries in India; academics in the west; St George as an Arab soldier in the crusades; the Indian-Pakistan border, displacement and defiance; mobile resistance to nation-state hegemonies in Bangladesh; the international market value of dead tourists; pop personalities, MTV and souvenir culture; diasporized Mirpuri youth on travel; touring black women, pleasure islands; and ethnographers abroad. The contributors refuse simplistic dichotomies of north/south and east/west, and confront head on existing conventions of writing about travel in post-colonial, literary and cultural studies.

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  • Published

Publisher

Zed Books

Pages

256.0

Place of publication

London; New York

ISBN

978-1856495615

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  • Anthropology Publications

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his is an edited book edited by Raminder Kaur, John Hutnyk

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Editors

Raminder Kaur, John Hutnyk

Legacy Posted Date

2012-02-06

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