The Tourist State

Performing Leisure, Liberalism, and Race in New Zealand

Bibliographic Data

ID19976730
AuthorsMargaret Werry (corresponding author)
Year2011
Publication date2011-11-24
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueThe tourist state (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of Minnesota Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.5749/minnesota/9780816666058.001.0001
OpenAlexW2251337118
Open LibraryOL25328891M
ISBN9780816666058
LanguageEN
Citations received22

No longer the dreary sheep farm at the end of the world, the New Zealand of the new millennium is a hot global ticket, heralded for its bicultural dynamism, laid-back lifestyle, and scenery extraordinary enough to pass for Tolkien's Middle Earth. How this image was crafted is the story this book tells. In a series of narratives that address the embodied dimensions of biopolitics and explore the collision of race, performance, and the cultural poetics of the state, this book exposes the real drama behind the new New Zealand, revealing how a nation was sold to the world—and to itself. The story stretches back to the so-called Liberal Era at the beginning of the twentieth century, in which the young settler colony touted itself as the social laboratory of the world. Focusing on where tourism and liberal governmentality coincide, the book takes us from military diplomacy at the dawn of the American Pacific to the exotic blandishments of Broadway and Coney Island, from landscape preservation to health reform and town planning, from blockbuster film to knowledge economy policy

Art · Biopower · Diplomacy · Drama · Dynamism · Liberalism · Literature · Media studies · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science) · Tourism · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Australian History and Society · Computer Science · Gender Studies · History · Law · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Travel Writing and Literature · Leisure · Maori (New Zealand people) · National characteristics · New zealand · New Zealand National characteristics · race relations · Social conditions

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