Victor Alneng
Biographic Data
| ID | 217492 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Victor Alneng |
| GIVEN NAMES | Victor |
| FAMILY NAME | Alneng |
| SIGNATURE | ALNENG V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stockholm University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The modern does not cater for natives: Travel ethnography and the conventions of form
As a response to editors Adrian Franklin and Mike Crang’s outline of ‘the trouble with tourism and travel theory’, this article sketches some further troubles. It is argued that researchers have adopted modernist spatio-temporal distinctions that reproduce a singularity of the Tourist-as-Westerner. Meanwhile non-Westerners are mostly seen as immobile pre-modern participants of Western tourism. As non-Western tourism involves considerably more peo…
What the Fuck is a Vietnam: Touristic Phantasms and the Popcolonization of (the) Vietnam (War)
With the introduction of the reform project doi moi in 1986, Vietnam turned to tourism as a major new economic resource. Demands from international visitors have entailed a commodification of the Vietnam War. This article approaches tourism as an ideologically saturated nexus where identities and worldviews are continuously being represented, consumed, reconfirmed, negotiated and modified. Practices and narrations of Western backpackers, who trav…
What the Fuck is a Vietnam: Touristic Phantasms and the Popcolonization of (the) Vietnam (War)
With the introduction of the reform project doi moi in 1986, Vietnam turned to tourism as a major new economic resource. Demands from international visitors have entailed a commodification of the Vietnam War. This article approaches tourism as an ideologically saturated nexus where identities and worldviews are continuously being represented, consumed, reconfirmed, negotiated and modified. Practices and narrations of Western backpackers, who trav…
The modern does not cater for natives: Travel ethnography and the conventions of form
As a response to editors Adrian Franklin and Mike Crang’s outline of ‘the trouble with tourism and travel theory’, this article sketches some further troubles. It is argued that researchers have adopted modernist spatio-temporal distinctions that reproduce a singularity of the Tourist-as-Westerner. Meanwhile non-Westerners are mostly seen as immobile pre-modern participants of Western tourism. As non-Western tourism involves considerably more peo…
The modern does not cater for natives: Travel ethnography and the conventions of form
As a response to editors Adrian Franklin and Mike Crang’s outline of ‘the trouble with tourism and travel theory’, this article sketches some further troubles. It is argued that researchers have adopted modernist spatio-temporal distinctions that reproduce a singularity of the Tourist-as-Westerner. Meanwhile non-Westerners are mostly seen as immobile pre-modern participants of Western tourism. As non-Western tourism involves considerably more peo…
What the Fuck is a Vietnam: Touristic Phantasms and the Popcolonization of (the) Vietnam (War)
With the introduction of the reform project doi moi in 1986, Vietnam turned to tourism as a major new economic resource. Demands from international visitors have entailed a commodification of the Vietnam War. This article approaches tourism as an ideologically saturated nexus where identities and worldviews are continuously being represented, consumed, reconfirmed, negotiated and modified. Practices and narrations of Western backpackers, who trav…
Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Tourism (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Anthropology (1 works) · Archaeology (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (1 works) · Commodification (1 works)