Leisure and tourism landscapes : social and cultural geographies / Cara Aitchison, Nicola E. MacLeod, and Stephen J. Shaw.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-193) and index.

1. Introduction -- A place for leisure and tourism? -- From geography to geographies -- Theorizing the social-cultural nexus -- Social and cultural geographies of leisure and tourism landscapes -- 2. Locating Landscapes: Geographies of Leisure and Tourism -- Introduction -- Colonial geographies: mapping regional territories -- Systematic geographies: modelling land use and tourism -- Landscape evaluations: mapping scenic amenity in leisure and tourism -- Tourism geographies: topologies of land use -- Structuralist interpretations of leisure and tourism landscapes -- Post-colonial geographies of leisure and tourism -- Geography's cultural turn: the spatiality of leisure and tourism -- Leisure geographies of the street -- Tourism geographies of the spectacle and monument -- Geographies of social and cultural exclusion -- Overview -- 3. Moving Landscapes: Leisure and Tourism in Time and Space -- Introduction -- The Journey, travel and discovery -- Prospects of pleasure, landscapes of feeling -- Annihilating time and distance -- Landscape, leisure and mobility -- Road to nowhere? -- Overview -- 4. Valuing the Countryside: Leisure, Tourism and the Rural Landscape -- Introduction -- Nature was His book -- Access and exclusion Landscape fit for heroes -- A people's charter for the open air -- A countryside for all? -- Overview -- 5. IntroductionA landscape aesthetic? -- The socio-cultural context -- Landscape and imaginative reconstruction -- The Highlands of Scotland -- Ossianic tourism -- The Highlander in the picture -- The Highlands of Walter Scott -- Travelling in the Highlands -- Royal Patrons -- A Literary way of seeing -- The realHighlands -- Overview -- 6. Heritage Landscapes: Merging Past and Present -- Introduction -- The evolution of heritage -- Heritage in the landscape -- Stonehenge: multi-vocal landscape -- Avebury: evolving landscape -- Tintagel: Constructing and Consuming Leisure and Tourism -- Introduction -- Spatialized feminism -- Feminism and leisure landscapes -- Gendered space -- Deconstructing dualisms -- The gendered other -- Gender and landscapes of tourism -- Gender and landscapes of heritage -- Overview -- 8. Retrophilia and the Urban Landscape -- Introduction -- Antiquity, restoration and fake Reverence, worldliness and action -- Modernism, collective memory and amnesia -- Urban conservation and civic pride -- Commercialism, decadence and tourism -- The historic quarters of London's City Fringe -- Overview -- 9. Landscapes of Desire: Re-appropriating the City -- Introduction -- Queer space: material and symbolic landscapes -- Gay destinations: the landscape of the city -- Sexuality and spectacle: the landscape of the street -- Sexuality and hospitality: the landscape of the hotel -- Overview -- 10. Leisure, Tourism and Culture: Relocating Landscapes.

"In the post-industrial era, leisure, tourism, culture and heritage have asumed a central role in the shaping of our modern landscape. With a broadly inter-disciplinary focus, drawing from fields such as cultural studies, history, literature and geography, this book redefines the way we view our surroundings."--Publisher description.

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