Pau Obrador Pons
Biographic Data
| ID | 5667161 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pau Obrador Pons |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pau Obrador |
| FAMILY NAME | Pons |
| SIGNATURE | PONS P O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 68 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Cultures of Mass Tourism: Doing the Mediterranean in the Age of Banal Mobilities
Morocco: Restaging Colonialism for the Masses
This chapter contrasts general statements about the inhabitability of contemporary spatialities with an ethnographic account of day to day uses of the coastal hotel. It draws attention to the pressures and pleasures of sociality which inhabit the coastal hotel. The chapter focuses on the fleeting and mundane moments of hospitality, the network of performances of hosting and guesting that makes the coastal hotel livable. It examines dominant persp…
Cultures of Mass Tourism: Doing the Mediterranean in the Age of Banal Mobilities
With more than 230 million international tourists a year, the Mediterranean region is the largest tourist destination in the world. This book outlines that its economic importance is matched by its significance as a cultural and aesthetic phenomenon. Through a series of ethnographic insights into some of the key sites of mass Mediterranean tourism, it focuses on package tourists' experiences of the serial, banal and depthless spaces that are mush…
Being-on-Holiday: Tourist Dwelling, Bodies and Place
This article explores the relevance of dwelling and embodiment metaphorsin tourist studies. These metaphors make possible an account of tourism whichacknowledges the mobile and complex reality of the 21st century whilst neitherdelocalizing nor dis-embodying nor isolating tourists. In proposing such metaphors, Idevelop the possibilities of non-representational theory in tourist studies (Thrift, 1997).This article develops a perspective on tourism …
Being-on-Holiday: Tourist Dwelling, Bodies and Place
This article explores the relevance of dwelling and embodiment metaphorsin tourist studies. These metaphors make possible an account of tourism whichacknowledges the mobile and complex reality of the 21st century whilst neitherdelocalizing nor dis-embodying nor isolating tourists. In proposing such metaphors, Idevelop the possibilities of non-representational theory in tourist studies (Thrift, 1997).This article develops a perspective on tourism …
Being-on-Holiday: Tourist Dwelling, Bodies and Place
This article explores the relevance of dwelling and embodiment metaphorsin tourist studies. These metaphors make possible an account of tourism whichacknowledges the mobile and complex reality of the 21st century whilst neitherdelocalizing nor dis-embodying nor isolating tourists. In proposing such metaphors, Idevelop the possibilities of non-representational theory in tourist studies (Thrift, 1997).This article develops a perspective on tourism …
Cultures of Mass Tourism: Doing the Mediterranean in the Age of Banal Mobilities
With more than 230 million international tourists a year, the Mediterranean region is the largest tourist destination in the world. This book outlines that its economic importance is matched by its significance as a cultural and aesthetic phenomenon. Through a series of ethnographic insights into some of the key sites of mass Mediterranean tourism, it focuses on package tourists' experiences of the serial, banal and depthless spaces that are mush…
Cultures of Mass Tourism: Doing the Mediterranean in the Age of Banal Mobilities
Morocco: Restaging Colonialism for the Masses
This chapter contrasts general statements about the inhabitability of contemporary spatialities with an ethnographic account of day to day uses of the coastal hotel. It draws attention to the pressures and pleasures of sociality which inhabit the coastal hotel. The chapter focuses on the fleeting and mundane moments of hospitality, the network of performances of hosting and guesting that makes the coastal hotel livable. It examines dominant persp…
Anthropology (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Cultural (2 works) · Cultural Policy (2 works) · Culture and tourism (2 works) · Economic conditions (2 works) · Economic history (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · History (2 works) · Marketing (2 works)