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The Ethics of Sightseeing

Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2011

About this book

Is travel inherently beneficial to human character? Does it automatically educate and enlighten while also promoting tolerance, peace, and understanding? In this challenging book, Dean MacCannell identifies and overcomes common obstacles to ethical sightseeing. Through his unique combination of personal observation and in-depth scholarship, MacCannell ventures into specific tourist destinations and attractions: "picturesque" rural and natural landscapes, "hip" urban scenes, historic locations of tragic events, Disney theme parks, beaches, and travel poster ideals. He shows how strategies intended to attract tourists carry unintended consequences when they migrate to other domains of life and reappear as "staged authenticity." Demonstrating each act of sightseeing as an ethical test, the book shows how tourists can realize the productive potential of their travel desires, penetrate the collective unconscious, and gain character, insight, and connection to the world.

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Contributor: Dean MacCannell Dean MacCannell is Professor Emeritus of Environmental Design at the University of California, Davis, and is the author of The Tourist (UC Press).

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    Frontmatter

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    Contents

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    Illustrations

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    Preface

    ix
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    Prologue: I Was a Tourist at Freud House, London

    xiii
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  • PART ONE. THE UBIQUITOUS TOURIST AND POSTMODERN PARANOIA
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    1. Tourist/Other and the Unconscious

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    2. Staged Authenticity Today

    13
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  • PART TWO. RECENT TRENDS IN RESEARCH AND THE NEW MORAL TOURISM
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    3. Why Sightseeing?

    41
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    4. Toward an Ethics of Sightseeing

    46
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    5. Trips and Their Reason

    63
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  • PART THREE. CITY AND COUNTRYSIDE AS SYMBOLIC CONSTRUCTS
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    6. The Tourist in the Urban Symbolic

    91
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    7. Looking Through the Landscape

    117
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  • PART FOUR. THE IMAGINATION VERSUS THE IMAGINARY
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    8. An Imaginary Symbolic: From Piranesi to Disney

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    9. The Touristic Attitude: Acceding to the Imaginary

    152
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    10. The Bilbao Effect: Ethical Symbolic Representation

    158
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    11. Painful Memory

    167
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    12. The Intentional Structure of Tourist Imagery

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    13. Tourist Agency

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    Appendix: Tourism as a Moral Field

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    Notes

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    Index

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July 22, 2019
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9780520948655
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https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520948655
eBook ISBN: 9780520948655
Keywords for this book
tourism; tourist destinations; tourist attractions; ethics; worldview; tolerance; cultural understanding; rural; landscapes; scenic views; urban neighborhoods; historic tours; disney; theme parks; amusement parks; beaches; travel posters; authenticity; moral tourism; tourist imagery; tourist agency; historic tragedies; historic tourism; travel; staged authenticity; sightseeing; race; ethical sightseeing; cultural studies; popular culture; tourists; nonfiction; social theory; voyage
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