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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: world in a selfie
    sub title: an inquiry into the tourist age
  title info:
    title: Il selfie del mondo. English
  name:
    name part: D'Eramo, Marco
    name part: 1947-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2017
    edition: First English-language edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: ita
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 282 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: We've all been tourists at some point in our lives. How is it we look so condescendingly at people taking selfies in front of the Tower of Pisa? Is there really much to distinguish the package holiday from hipster city-breaks to Berlin or Brooklyn? Why do we engage our free time in an activity we profess to despise? The World in a Selfie dissects a global cultural phenomenon. For Marco D'Eramo, tourism is not just the most important industry of the century, generating huge waves of people and capital, calling forth a dedicated infrastructure and upsetting and repurposing the architecture and topography of our cities. It also encapsulates the problem of modernity, the search for authenticity in a world of ersatz pleasures. D'Eramo retraces the grand tours of the first globetrotters, from Francis Bacon and Samuel Johnson to Arthur de Gobineau and Mark Twain, before assessing the cultural meaning of the beach holiday and the 'UNESCO-cide' of major heritage sites. The tourist selfie will never look the same again.
  table of contents: Tourism in a time of cholera -- The leisure revolution -- The world's finest sewer -- Mark Twain's TripAdvisor -- Tourism à la carte -- A brief intrusion by an earthologist friend -- The tourist city -- UNESCO's urbicide -- Lijiang: Inventing authenticity -- Relearning from Las Vegas -- The zoning of the soul -- Long live alienation! Or, peeling the Hegelian Onion -- Yearning for the other -- The world at our disposal -- Life's menu -- Maybe one day -- Postscript: A valediction.
  note: Marco D'Eramo ; translated by Bethan Bowett-Jones and David Broder.
  note: First published: Milano : Feltrinelli, 2017, under title Il selfie del mondo.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Tourism
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Tourism
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography
  classification: G156.5.S63 D4713 2021
  classification: 306.4/819
  identifier: 9781788731072
  identifier: 1788731077
  identifier: 9781788731102
  identifier: 2020045101
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 201006
    record change date: 20211018100917.0
    record identifier: in00004395322