What the Fuck is a Vietnam
Touristic Phantasms and the Popcolonization of (the) Vietnam (War)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2360595 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Victor Alneng (Stockholm University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 461-489 |
| Publication date | 2002-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critique of Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-275X • E-ISSN: 1460-3721 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0308275x020220040501 |
| OpenAlex | W2100324190 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 24 |
| References cited | 18 |
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 travel to Vietnam spurred by phantasms of Vietnam as a war, are related to discourses of Vietnam in tourism literature, popular media, academia, journalism and politics, and traced to a `popcolonial' fantasy of Western superiority. At the core are the hegemonic implications the `been there, done that' cliché carries when war and tourism go hand in hand. It is argued that the dichotomies of here/there and war/peace need to be dislodged in order to understand the ideologies of both tourism and war
Commodification · Economics · Economy · Fantasy · Hegemony · Ideology · Literature · Media studies · Nexus (standard · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Tourism · Vietnam War · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Gender Studies · Law · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
Return to Vietnam
Inestabilidad, violencia y turismo en Perú
Trafficking Trips
Reflections of battlefield tourist experiences associated with Vietnam War sites
Dark heritage tourism and the Sarajevo siege
Tourism and the ‘martyred city’
The hospitality of objects and their travelling memories
What a wonderful world
The Beach, the gaze and film tourism
The modern does not cater for natives
Saigon’s penalscape
Dutiful tourism
The Prison School in Vietnam
Tour guides as tourist products in Dalat, Vietnam
Vietfuckin’- nam !”
An Examination of Entrepreneurial Relationships Between the State and Nonstate in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Indochine chic
Political (in)stability and its influence on tourism development
Visiting the trenches
Cu Chi tunnels
A Curious Trade
Phoenix Tourism
Recombinant History
Phantasms in a "Starry" Place
| Unique citing works | 24 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2026 (25) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 24 |