"Rereading the subjugating tourist" in neoliberalism: Postcolonial otherness and the tourist experience

Wearing, S; Wearing, M

"Rereading the subjugating tourist" in neoliberalism: Postcolonial otherness and the tourist experience

Wearing, S

Wearing, M

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Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Tourism Analysis, 2006, 11 (2), pp. 145 - 162
Issue Date:: 2006-01-01

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dc.contributor.author	Wearing, S https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5158-059X	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Wearing, M	en_US
dc.date.issued	2006-01-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Tourism Analysis, 2006, 11 (2), pp. 145 - 162	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1083-5423	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/6409
dc.description.abstract	© 2006 Cognizant Comm. Corp. In this review article, Wearing and Wearing attempt to develop an interactionist, constructionist, and postcolonial framework for conceptualizing tourist experiences of space. They argue that the tourist place provides social spaces for individual experiences related, among other things, to leisure expectations, guest-host relationships, and interactions with community members. To Wearing and Wearing, operations of power between the culture of the tourist and that of the host enable hegemonic constructions of the host's culture. These sorts of constructions position the "otherness" of hosts as inferior to the tourist's original culture, which is usually "White" and "infused with Western knowledge." The authors maintain thereby that the tourist destination then generally becomes a place for the voyeuristic gaze of the tourist, which, at best, reduces the destination culture to an inferior exoticism.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Tourism Analysis	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.3727/108354206778001512	en_US
dc.title	"Rereading the subjugating tourist" in neoliberalism: Postcolonial otherness and the tourist experience	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
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utslib.for	150606 Tourist Behaviour and Visitor Experience	en_US
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Abstract:

© 2006 Cognizant Comm. Corp. In this review article, Wearing and Wearing attempt to develop an interactionist, constructionist, and postcolonial framework for conceptualizing tourist experiences of space. They argue that the tourist place provides social spaces for individual experiences related, among other things, to leisure expectations, guest-host relationships, and interactions with community members. To Wearing and Wearing, operations of power between the culture of the tourist and that of the host enable hegemonic constructions of the host's culture. These sorts of constructions position the "otherness" of hosts as inferior to the tourist's original culture, which is usually "White" and "infused with Western knowledge." The authors maintain thereby that the tourist destination then generally becomes a place for the voyeuristic gaze of the tourist, which, at best, reduces the destination culture to an inferior exoticism.

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