This volume portrays tourist places of longing in Eastern Europe and makes the transnational and social-political importance of desires visible. It focuses on official and unofficial concepts of a good life, emotional ties to places, the creation of tourist infrastructures as well as the circulation of discourses and people between East and West. The political, social and economic upheavals, which have marked the region historically up to now are put into a new light. In this way, the potential of this massive transformation processes can be highlighted, instead of repeating the still current story of a torn and retarded grey Eastern Bloc. The volume contributes to the recent study field of Tourism Studies in Eastern Europe and gives a new impetus for research debates.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9783847109846
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-3-8471-0984-6
- Verlag: V & R Unipress GmbH
- Erscheinungstermin: 16.09.2019
- Sprache(n): Deutsch,Englisch
- Auflage: 1. Auflage 2019
- Serie: Kultur- und Sozialgeschichte Osteuropas
- Produktform: Gebunden, gebunden
- Gewicht: 670 g
- Seiten: 379
- Format (B x H x T): 155 x 232 x 25 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt