Tourism and Australian Beach Cultures

Tourism and Australian Beach Cultures
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Publisher : Channel View Publications
Total Pages : 189
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ISBN-10 : 9781845412869
ISBN-13 : 1845412869
Rating : 4/5 (69 Downloads)

Synopsis Tourism and Australian Beach Cultures by : Christine Metusela

This book explores the ever-changing relationships between bodies, oceans, beaches and tourism. Drawing on feminist scholarship, the book focuses on the emergence of Australian beach cultures beyond metropolitan centres from the early 19th century to the early 20th century on the Illawarra beaches, some 80 kilometres south of Sydney.

Tourism and Australian Beach Cultures

Tourism and Australian Beach Cultures
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 156
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ISBN-10 : 6613806935
ISBN-13 : 9786613806932
Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

Synopsis Tourism and Australian Beach Cultures by : Christine Metusela

This book explores the ever-changing interconnections between bodies, subjectivities, space, beach cultures and tourism, engaging with the geographies of the beach: its makings, boundaries and meanings for the West. Drawing on feminist scholarship, Christine Metusela and Gordon Waitt explore the reciprocal relationship between bodies and beaches, focusing on the shifting intersection between age, race, class, sex, gender and national discourses that naturalise particular bodies as belonging on the beach. The authors critically examine how subjectivities of bodies are produced under specific ci.

Writing the Australian Beach

Writing the Australian Beach
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 247
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ISBN-10 : 9783030352646
ISBN-13 : 3030352641
Rating : 4/5 (46 Downloads)

Synopsis Writing the Australian Beach by : Elizabeth Ellison

Writing the Australian Beach is the first book in fifteen years to explore creative and cultural representations of this iconic landscape, and how writers and scholars have attempted to understand and depict it. Although the content chiefly focuses on Australia, the beach as both a location and idea resonates deeply with readers around the world. This edited collection includes three sections. Forms of Beach Writing examines the history of beach writing in Australia and in a number of forms: screenwriting, social media writing, and food writing. In turn, Multiplicities of Australian Beach Writing examines how forms of writing—poetry, travel writing, horror film, and memoir—engage with some specific beaches in Australia. And, finally, Reading the Beach as a Text considers how the beach itself functions in cultural narratives: how we walk the beach; the revealing story of beach soccer; and the design and use of ocean baths. Given its scope, the collection offers a unique resource for scholars of Australian culture and creative writing, and for all those interested in Australian beaches.

Roads, Tourism and Cultural History

Roads, Tourism and Cultural History
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Publisher : Channel View Publications
Total Pages : 402
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ISBN-10 : 9781845416706
ISBN-13 : 1845416708
Rating : 4/5 (06 Downloads)

Synopsis Roads, Tourism and Cultural History by : Rosemary Kerr

Roads and road tourism loom large in the Australian imagination as distance and mobility have shaped the nation’s history and culture, but roads are more than simply transport routes; they embody multiple layers of history, mythology and symbolism. Drawing on Australian travel writing, diaries and manuscripts, tourism literature, fiction, poetry and feature films, this book explores how Australians have experienced and imagined roads and road touring beyond urban settings: from Aboriginal ‘songlines’ to modern-day road trips. It also tells the stories of iconic roads, including the Birdsville Track, Stuart Highway and Great Ocean Road, and suggests alternative approaches to heritage and tourism interpretation of these important routes. The ongoing impact of the colonial past on Indigenous peoples and contemporary Australian society and culture – including representations of the road and road travel – is explored throughout the book. The volume offers a new way of thinking about roads and road tourism as important strands in a nation’s cultural fabric.

Australian Beach Cultures

Australian Beach Cultures
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 292
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ISBN-10 : 9781136338472
ISBN-13 : 1136338470
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Synopsis Australian Beach Cultures by : Douglas Booth

Australians are surrounded by beaches. But this enclosure is more than a geographical fact for the inhabitants of an island continent; the beach is an integral part of the cultural envelope. This work analyzes the history of the beach as an integral aspect of Australian culture.

Tourism, Tradition and Culture

Tourism, Tradition and Culture
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Publisher : CABI
Total Pages : 318
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ISBN-10 : 9781789245899
ISBN-13 : 1789245893
Rating : 4/5 (99 Downloads)

Synopsis Tourism, Tradition and Culture by : David Harrison

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.

Audiovisual Tourism Promotion

Audiovisual Tourism Promotion
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 274
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ISBN-10 : 9789811664106
ISBN-13 : 9811664102
Rating : 4/5 (06 Downloads)

Synopsis Audiovisual Tourism Promotion by : Diego Bonelli

This book deploys the concept of ‘audiovisual tourism promotion’ to account for the promotional functions performed by a vast array of diverse media texts including tourism films, feature films, digital videos conceived for online circulation, video games and TV commercials. From this point of view, this volume fills a major gap in the literature by providing the first comprehensive critical overview of audiovisual tourism promotion as a distinct media field. In this book, the study of audiovisual tourism promotion is characterised by an interdisciplinary approach which combines film studies, media studies, human geography, sociology, tourism studies, history, postcolonial and gender studies. This book will appeal to a wide range of students and scholars from different disciplines.

Travel and Imagination

Travel and Imagination
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 263
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ISBN-10 : 9781317006619
ISBN-13 : 1317006615
Rating : 4/5 (19 Downloads)

Synopsis Travel and Imagination by : Garth Lean

The imagination has long been associated with travel and tourism; from the seventeenth century when the showman and his peepshow box would take the village crowd to places, cities and lands through the power of stories, to today when we rely on a different range of boxes to whisk us away on our imaginative travels: the television, the cinema and the computer. Even simply the notion of travel, it would seem, gives us license to daydream. The imagination thus becomes a key concept that blurs the boundaries between our everyday lives and the idea of travel. Yet, despite what appears to be a close and comfortable link, there is an absence of scholarly material looking at travel and the imagination. Bringing together geographers, sociologists, cultural researchers, philosophers, anthropologists, visual researchers, archaeologists, heritage researchers, literary scholars and creative writers, this edited collection explores the socio-cultural phenomenon of imagination and travel. The volume reflects upon imagination in the context of many forms of physical and non-physical travel, inviting scholars to explore this fascinating, yet complex, area of inquiry in all of its wonderful colour, slipperiness, mystery and intrigue. The book intends to provide a catalyst for thinking, discussion, research and writing, with the vision of generating a cannon of scholarship on travel and the imagination that is currently absent from the literature.

Travel: Australia

Travel: Australia
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Publisher : iMinds Pty Ltd
Total Pages : 16
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ISBN-10 : 9781921746758
ISBN-13 : 1921746750
Rating : 4/5 (58 Downloads)

Synopsis Travel: Australia by : iMinds

Learn about the history of Australia with iMinds Travel's insightful knowledge series. This collection includes the story of 6 of Ausralia's most famous destinations - Bondi Beach, Kakadu National Park, the Great Ocean Road, Uluru (Ayres Rock), the Great Barrier Reef and Sydney Harbour.iMinds will tell you the story behind the place with its innovative travel series, transporting the armchair traveller or getting you in the mood for discover on route to your destination. iMinds brings targeted knowledge to your eReading device with short information segments to whet your mental appetite and b.

Cultural Sustainability in Rural Communities

Cultural Sustainability in Rural Communities
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 254
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ISBN-10 : 9781317156192
ISBN-13 : 1317156196
Rating : 4/5 (92 Downloads)

Synopsis Cultural Sustainability in Rural Communities by : Catherine Driscoll

There has been a recent expansion of interest in cultural approaches to rural communities and to the economic and social situation of rurality more broadly. This interest has been particularly prominent in Australia in recent years, spurring the emergence of an interdisciplinary field called 'rural cultural studies'. This collection is framed by a large interdisciplinary research project that is part of that emergence, particularly focused on what the idea of 'cultural sustainability' might mean for understanding experiences of growth, decline, change and heritage in small Australian country towns. However, it extends beyond the initial parameters of that research, bringing together a range of senior and emerging Australian researchers who offer diverse approaches to rural culture. The essays collected here explore the diverse forms that rural cultural studies might take and how these intersect with other disciplinary approaches, offering a uniquely diverse but also careful account of life in country Australia. Yet, in its emphasis on the simultaneous specificity and cross-cultural recognisability of rural communities, this book also outlines a field of inquiry and a set of critical strategies that are more broadly applicable to thinking about the "rural" in the early twenty-first century. This book will be valuable reading for students and academics of Geography, History, Literary Studies, Cultural Studies, Anthropology and Sociology, introducing rural cultural studies as a new dynamic and integrative discipline.