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Commodification of Buddhism in contemporary Burma.
Janette Philp,David Mercer +1 more
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Buddhism provides a powerful force in the lives of large numbers of people in Burma as discussed by the authors and the military junta ruling Burma has recognized and attempted to appropriate Buddhism as a means of legitimating its authority.About:
This article is published in Annals of Tourism Research.The article was published on 1999-01-01. It has received 69 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Buddhism & Burmese.read more
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Mapping ‘new’ geographies of religion: politics and poetics in modernity:
TL;DR: This paper reviewed geographical research on religion in the 1990s, and highlighted work from neighbouring disciplines where relevant, contrary to views that the field is incoherent, and suggested that it is not incoherent.
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Commodification and Adventure in New Zealand Tourism
Paul Cloke,Harvey C. Perkins +1 more
TL;DR: A survey of tourist brochures for adventure tourism attractions in New Zealand reveals some of the particular characteristics of adventure which are being incorporated into commodity form for tourists as discussed by the authors, including place, spectacle, embodied experience and memory.
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Religion and identity in India’s heritage tourism
TL;DR: In this article, the authors compare the way India's heritage is represented by the Indian government, by the domestic tourism trade media and by the popular tourism media and reveal that India is consistently represented as an ethnically diverse nation in which Hinduism preceded and prevailed over all other ethnicities/religions; a portrayal that consolidates the state's secular nationalist narrative.
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Tourist Photography and the Reverse Gaze
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that tourists, when they feel the reverse gaze, are not taking the actual perspective of Ladakhis, but are instead attributing their own critical attitudes toward other tourist photographers to the Ladakhi photographee.
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The Politics of Tourism in Myanmar
TL;DR: The relationship between politics and tourism is complex and multi-faceted, and a subject which is assuming a higher priority in the research literature as mentioned in this paper, with particular attention given to that of the government and its policies.
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Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
TL;DR: In this paper, Anderson examines the creation and global spread of the 'imagined communities' of nationality and explores the processes that created these communities: the territorialisation of religious faiths, the decline of antique kingship, the interaction between capitalism and print, the development of vernacular languages-of-state, and changing conceptions of time.
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The Tourist Gaze: Leisure and Travel in Contemporary Societies
TL;DR: The tourist gaze mass tourism and the rise and fall of the seaside resort the changing economics of the tourist industry working under the tourist gaze cultural changes and the restructuring of tourism gazing on history tourism, culture and social inequality.
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The Past is a Foreign Country
C. Vann Woodward,David Lowenthal +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the look of age and the benefits and burdens of the past are discussed in the context of anachronism and changing the past in an attempt to understand how we know the past.
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Tourism And Politics: Policy, Power And Place
TL;DR: The Politics of Tourism Tourism, Government and the State: Tourism and the Policy-Making Process International Tourism Policy and International Relations The Implications of Revolution, Terrorism and Political Violence for Tourism Tourism and Local State: Development, Tourism, Culture and the Presentation of Social Reality Situating Tourism in Capitalist Society: Towards an Understanding of Tourism Politics, Policy and Place as discussed by the authors.
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Representations of International Tourism in the Social Sciences: Sun, Sex, Sights, Savings, and Servility
TL;DR: In The Innocents Abroad Mark Twain asserts that "travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and nar- rowmindedness... " and yet goes on, page after page, about the daily torture and anxiety involved in foreign travel as discussed by the authors.