The world in a selfie : an inquiry into the tourist age /
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...
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London ; Brooklyn, New York :
Verso,
[2021]
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| Edition: | First English-language edition. |
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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.