Leisure/tourism geographies : practices and geographical knowledge / edited by David Crouch.
| Uniform Title: | Critical geographies ;
3. |
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| Other Authors: | |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1999.
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| Series: | Critical geographies ;
3. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 299 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Encounters in leisure/tourism / David Crouch
- Mytho-poetic in northern travel / Inger Birkeland
- Sensing leisure spaces / John Urry
- Parks and gardens : metaphors for the modern places of sport / John Bale
- Heritage and nationalism : gender and the performance of power / Cara Aitchison
- Hyper-reality in the official (re)construction of leisure sites : the case of rambling / Neil Ravenscroft
- Narrativised spaces : the functions of story in the theme park / Deborah Philips
- Cultural contestation at Disneyland Paris / Stacy Warren
- Nomadic-symbolic and settler-consumer leisure practices in Poland / Ada Kwiatkowska
- Tourism and sacred landscapes / Richard Tresidder
- Design versus leisure : social implications of functionalist design in urban private gardens of the twentieth century / Gert Groening and Uwe Schneider
- Consuming pleasures : food, leisure and the negotiation of sexual relations / Gill Valentine
- Where you want to go today (like it or not) : leisure practices in cyberspace / Caroline Bassett and Chris Wilbert
- That sinking feeling : elitism, working leisure and yachting / Eric Laurier
- Leisure places and modernity : the use and meaning of recreational cottages in Norway and the USA / Daniel R. Williams and Bjørn P. Kaltenborn
- Leisure lots and summer cottages as places for people's own creative work / Lena Jarlöv
- Knowing, tourism and practices of vision / Mike Crang
- Intimacy and expansion of space / David Crouch
- Knowledge by doing : home and identity in a bodily perspective / Niels Kayser Nielsen.