Cinematic Tourist Mobilities and the Plight of Development: On
Atmospheres, Affects, and Environments
Routledge URL: https://www.routledge.com/Cinematic-Tourist-Mobilities-and-the-Plight-of-Development-On-Atmospheres/Tzanelli/p/book/9781138388673
Description
It is said that movies have encroached upon social realities
creating tourism enclaves based on distortions of history and heritage, or
simulations that disregard both. What localities and nation-states value are
discarded, suppressed, or modified beyond recognition in neoliberal markets;
thus flattening out human experience, destroying natural habitats in the name
of development, and putting the future of whole ecosystems at risk.
Without disregarding such developmental risks Cinematic
Tourist Mobilities and the Plight of Development explores how, en route to
any beneficial or eco-destructive development, film tourist industries
co-produce atmospheres of place and culture with tourists/film fans, local
activists, and nation-states. Drawing on international examples of
cinematically-induced tourism and tourismophobic activism, Tzanelli
demonstrates how the allegedly unilateral industry-driven ‘design’ of location
stands at a crossroads between political structures, systems of capitalist
development, and resurgent localised agency.
With an interdisciplinary methodological and epistemological
portfolio connected to the new mobilities paradigm, this volume will appeal to
scholars, students, and practitioners interested in tourism, migration, and
urban studies in sociology, anthropology, geography, and international
relations.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1_Introduction
Chapter 2_On touring the world: an epistemontological frame
Phantasmagoric palimpsests: twenty-first-century cinematic tourist atmospheres
Cities and countrysides: toward a new cinematic tourist mobilities paradigm
Western/European practice on the bar? Heritage and the holistic plea for life
Chapter 3_Attuning and aligning: synaesthesia and the making of worlds
An ecoaesthetics of worldmaking in cinematic pilgrimage
A primer in epistemontological investigation
Chapter 4_Mobile design: a purposeful pilgrimage into cinematic tourist sites
Carving mobilities: a preliminary statement
Poly-graphic design: a selection of case studies
The island of order(-ing): freedoms and burdens in Orientalisation
Chapter 5_The ‘hubris of the zero point’: three responses
Towards a choreutics of ecosocial action
Epistemic misalignment
Hostipitality
Postindustrial disobedience
Islands of disorder and choreosophies of potentia
Chapter 6_Crafting the impossible, meddling with the anthropocenic puzzle
Classroom experiments, lessons learned
Windows of darkness: degrowing and enfolding
Windows of hope: from heritage to identity reinterpretation
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Reviews
Over recent decades, many commentators on tourism and travel have condemned the managerialist narrownesses by which the twin fields are being almost exclusively taught and researched. In producing this book on 'Cinematics', the cultural sociologist Rodanthi Tzanelli seeks to correct for this large shortfall of schooling and awareness by producing a rich and deep inspection of the political ecology of tourism as she examines the ways in which 'the unchecked neoliberalism' of organised industrial development readily rubs up against 'native knowledges' / 'local aesthetics'. Thus, in this study, tourism is critically inspected by Tzanelli as a professional sphere of privatopias (i.e., as forms of worldmaking monoculture) which readily unsettles alternative communal / interest-group outlooks. She illustrates (via a broad mix of scenarios from across the world) how the governing systems and the inscriptive processes of tourism are so often limited in their imaginative capacity to detect (or even care about?) other vistas of inheritance or other voices of being and becoming.
—Professor Keith Hollinshead, Independent Scholar: England and Australia (Public Culture, Public Heritage, Public Nature)
A fascinating exploration of the complex processes involved in the global expansion of cinematic tourism, which challenges simplistic interpretations through its versatile handling of concepts and its analysis of complex relations, contradictions and dilemmas involving humans and non-humans.
—Professor John Eade, University of Roehampton/University of Toronto
Cinematic Tourist Mobilities and the Plight of Development is an exciting and much-needed addition to the literature on media tourism and the field of (heritage) tourism studies more generally. Twelve years after the publication of The Cinematic Tourist, Tzanelli’s 'sequel' offers another adventurous exploration into the phenomenon of media tourism (or rather, as Tzanelli prefers, contents tourism), this time using case studies of cinematic tourist development to discuss the critical challenges and conflicting interests of contemporary global tourism. Along the way, Tzanelli also reflects on an impressive and original range of (new) theories and (native) approaches to deal with the complex political ecologies of developing filmed locations into touristified spaces.
—Prof. Dr. Stijn Reijnders and Dr. Emiel Martens, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Confronted with over-tourism, increasingly designed environments as well as the spread of local and activist responses to the global mobility systems affording these, Tzanelli provides a staggering assemblage of eastern and western ideas as part of a truly cosmopolitan analysis, critique and call for action. A must-read for all critical students of mobility, tourism and urban/spatial transformations.
—Professor Michael Haldrup, Department of Communication and Arts, Roskilde University
