Open Access"Travelling Theory and the Politics of Representation"
Author(s) -
Peter Laurie
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
journal of anthropology at mcmaster
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 0707-3771
DOI - 10.15173/nexus.v8i1.90
Subject(s) - modernity , tourism , politics , modernization theory , economic system , trope (literature) , political economy , political science , sociology , representation (politics) , economic geography , economy , positive economics , social science , epistemology , economics , linguistics , law , philosophy
Most attempts to analyze the social logic of tourism tend to focus on the relationship between tourism and modernization. This typically involves one of two alternative approaches. For political economists and some cultural theorists, tourism is seen as a modernizing force in a global process of political economic expansion and cultural homogenization. Others have used tourism as a trope for modernity itself.