Leisure/Tourism Geographies: Practices and Geographical Knowledge

✍ Scribed by David Crouch (editor)

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 308
• Series: Critical Geographies
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Leisure and Tourism Geographies considers leisure/tourism as an encounter. An encounter that exists between people, between people and space and between people and their expectations, experiences and desires. The contributors explore diverse aspects of leisure and tourism, ranging from the methodologies behind leisure practices to detailed case studies including: Disneyland, Paris; tourism in sacred landscapes; leisure practices in cyberspace; leisure and yachting; use of recreational/holiday cottages; National Parks, local parks and gardens. Presenting an exciting mix of attitudes and ideas concerning leisure and tourism, this book documents a lively debate, placing geography at its centre.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
List if plates
List if contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: encounters in leisure/tourism • David Crouch
2 The mytho-poetic in northern travel • Inger Birkeland
3 Sensing leisure spaces • John Urry
4 Parks and gardens: metaphors for the modern places of sport • John Bale
5 Heritage and nationalism: gender and the performance of power • CaTa Aitchison
6 Hyper-reality in the official (re )construction of leisure sites: the case of rambling • Neil Ravenscroft
7 Narrativised spaces: the functions of story in the theme park • Deborah Philips
8 Cultural contestation at Disneyland Paris • Stacy Warren
9 Nomadic-symbolic and settler-consumer leisure practices in Poland • Ada Kwiatkowska
10 Tourism and sacred landscapes • Richard Tresidder
11 Design versus leisure: social implications of functionalist design in urban private gardens of the twentieth century • Gert Groeninn and Uwe Schneider
12 Consuming pleasures: food, leisure and the negotiation of sexual relations • Gill Valentine
13 Where you want to go today (like it or not): leisure practices in cyberspace • Caroline Bassett and Chris Wilbert
14 That sinking feeling: elitism, working leisure and yachting • Eric Laurier
15 Leisure places and modernity: the use and meaning of recreational cottages in Norway and the USA • Daniel R. Williams and Bjorn P. Kaltenborn
16 Leisure lots and summer cottages as places for people’s own creative work • Lena Jarlöv
17 Knowing, tourism and practices of vision • Mike Crang
18 The intimacy and expansion of space • David Crouch
19 Knowledge by doing: home and identity in a bodily perspective • Niels Kayser Nielsen
Name index
Subject index