ANTB20H3 Lecture : assignment 1.docx
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Running head: resorts and the sinister side of pleasure. Resorts as imagined communities: the sinister side of the economy of pleasure. As a result of this accessibility a large majority of countries boasting the image associated with this promise have opened up, to the tourism economy. The aim of this paper is to see resorts as manifestations of an imagined community of tourists where the common expression is the pursuit of pleasure. In deconstructing the imagined community (ic), the concept of imagination and community needs to be delved into. Therefore, a feature of what can be concieved of as an ic is a community based on an idea, interest or value that is intangible. Further, that any kind of ic is distinguished by the style in which they are imagined (anderson, 1991). Since ic are based on something intangible, they are not bound spatially and have a translocal essence.
