Artikel: Present-Day Mass Tourism: its Imaginaries and Nightmare Scenarios.
2020 Band 57, Heft 4, Seite(n) 385–391
Abstract: Present-day mass tourism uncannily resembles an auto-immune disease. Yet, self-destructive as it may be, it is also self-regenerating, changing its appearance and purpose. They are two modes that stand in contrast to each other. We can see them as ... ...
Abstract | Present-day mass tourism uncannily resembles an auto-immune disease. Yet, self-destructive as it may be, it is also self-regenerating, changing its appearance and purpose. They are two modes that stand in contrast to each other. We can see them as opposites that delimit a conceptual dimension ordering varieties of present-day mass tourism. The first pole calls forth tourism as a force leaving ruin and destruction in its wake or at best a sense of nostalgia for what has been lost, the other sees tourism as a force endlessly resuscitating and re-inventing itself. This paper article highlights both sides of the story. These times of the Covid-19 pandemic, with large swathes of public life emptied by social lock-down, remind us of a second, cross-cutting conceptual dimension, ranging from public space brimming with human life to its post-apocalyptic opposite eerily empty and silent. The final part of my argument will touch on imagined evocations of precisely such dystopian landscapes. |
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Schlagwörter | covid19 |
Sprache | Englisch |
Erscheinungsdatum | 2020-07-19 |
Erscheinungsland | United States |
Dokumenttyp | Journal Article |
ZDB-ID | 2007029-9 |
ISSN | 1936-4725 ; 0147-2011 |
ISSN (online) | 1936-4725 |
ISSN | 0147-2011 |
DOI | 10.1007/s12115-020-00499-y |
Datenquelle | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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