Leisure and Tourism Landscapes

Social and Cultural Geographies

Cara Aitchison author Nicola E MacLeod author Stephen J Shaw author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:18th Oct '01

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Increasingly significant as mediators of spatial identity and meaning, leisure, tourism, culture and heritage are only now beginning to be located within the rapidly evolving discourses of poststructuralist geographies.

Exploring the influence of leisure and tourism on the production, representation and consumption of landscape, the first half of this important book focuses on different ways of ‘seeing’ or representing landscape, whereas the second half examines different forms of productive consumption in leisure and tourism. Both symbolic and material spaces of leisure and tourism are also examined in relation to urban and rural landscapes, heritage landscapes, gendered landscapes, and landscapes of sexuality and desire.

With a multidisciplinary approach and a strong theoretical content which builds on poststructuralist theories, this is undoubtedly an important addition to literature in the field.

ISBN: 9780415271660

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 380g

208 pages