DTS200Y1 Lecture Notes - Cultural Tourism, Transnationalism, Wine Festival
20 Apr 2013
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This lecture will be on the midterm short essay or short answer question. Thursday 1:30-5pm- to see the ta for the short paper. Tourism and transnationalism or inverting the tourist gaze. The readings she gave use was old 1976 but it was a classic work on tourism. What does tourism have to do with diaspora and transnationalism: you want to explore the culture of where you are going. There are defiantly asymmetries of power going on in travel. It could be called a temporary diaspora because you are going to a place for a short period of time. It moves money there are some countries that are totally dependent for their survival. Links with transnartionalism in terms of the movement of money and the economic impact of tourism, and the asymmetries of power when some people are able to travel and some are not. Not just the movement of people but ideas, markets, citizenship, technology, modes of political organizations.
