SOC205H1 Lecture Notes - Culinary Tourism, Slum Tourism, Disaster Tourism
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History and social problem of the suburbs. Turn the title of the articles into questions and answer them. No reasons that beyond their control: jobs location, conformity, social policy, globalization freedom of choice is limited. The commodification of city space (from last class) In the 20th c, not just things, but now also spaces and places are marketed for sale. *the+ intertwining of cultural symbols and entrepreneurial capital . U of t: prestige (power of symbols) Disaster tourism, ecotourism, culinary tourism, water tourism, religious/faith tourism, wildlife tourism, literary tourism. Suicide tourism, health tourism, sex tourism, ghetto tourism, thanatoursim (death) . Start to see the city in a tourist"s aspect. E. g. of carlos slim (mexican mega-billionaire) who had some of mexico"s streets made into cobbled streets, for the tourists" gaze. Because the effects of globalisation tend to homogenize culture, now we have to manufacture difference! Political economy approach the connections between the local and the global.
