Invoking "The Native": Body Politics in Contemporary Hawaiian Tourist Shows

Desmond, Jane C.

doi:10.2307/1146662

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“…Arab Bedouin are exoticised and 'invoked as natives' in similar ways to the Hula dancers of Desmond's (1997) research outlined above. Here, whiteness acts as what Seshadri-Krooks calls the 'master signifier', upon which the whole structure of racial difference is founded.…”

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confidence: 94%

“…It is in this way that discourse and communications shape lived experiences in tourism settings, and indeed, as Thurlow and Jurowski (2010) argue, shape social, political and cultural processes in contemporary globalisation. Extant analyses of tourism promotional literature have been concerned with the symbolic construction of places and people for consumption by tourists (see Dann, 1988Dann, , 1996Edwards, 1996;Groves & Timothy, 2001;Jenkins, 2003;Morgan & Pritchard, 1998;Uzzell, 1984) and there have been some helpful analyses of the interplay between visual representations, consumption and ethnicity (Albers & James, 1988) and gender/sexuality with regard to women and femininity (Desmond, 1997;Marshment, 1997;Prichard, 2001;Sirakaya & Soenmez, 2000).…”

Section: The Commodification Of Differencementioning

confidence: 99%

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New heights in climbing and tourism: Jordan's Wadi Rum

Bott

2013

Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change

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Climbing tourists, seeking out evermore exciting locations in which to practise their sporting and touristic 'envelope-pushing', provide an excellent example for analysis of how foreign places and peoples are enmeshed in individual narratives of othering and 'selfing' predicated in no small part on individualised and marketised (mis)conceptions of embodied risk, heavily gendered forms of 'extremeness' and ethnic difference. Based on observer-as-participant fieldwork carried out in Wadi Rum, and analyses of marketing publications aimed specifically at rock-climbing tourists, this article explores how this particular landscape is masculinised to appeal to the 'hard' [Robinson, V. (2008). Everyday masculinities and extreme sport: Male identity and rock climbing. Oxford: Berg] Western climber, who is invited to experience Rum as hard or extreme play; as a performance of leisure that is unpredictable and unusually dangerous and risky for several reasons. Wadi Rum's 'soaring sandstone towers', inhospitable desert environment and Bedouin inhabitants feature heavily in holiday advertisements; the Bedouin people are valorised for both their 'inherent primitiveness' and capacity to adapt to, and ultimately conquer, their land's inhospitable summits. It is under these terms that adventure tourist 'spaces' become racialised, gendered and often classed and sexualised through various intersecting discourses.

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Section: The Commodification Of Differencementioning

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New heights in climbing and tourism: Jordan's Wadi Rum

Bott

2013

Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change

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“…1 See Alexeyeff (2009), Balme (1998), Condevaux (2011), Connell and Gibson (2008), Desmond (1997Desmond ( , 1999, Dick (2014), Hayward (2001), Imada (2011Imada ( , 2012, , Kahn (2011aKahn ( , 2011b, Kole (2010), Senft (1999), Stillman (1988), Tatar (1987), and Waitt and Duffy (2010).…”

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A Distinctive Voice in the Antipodes: Essays in Honour of Stephen A. Wild

Gillespie¹,

Treloyn²,

Niles³

2017

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“…In the last three decades, scholars have explored such topics as tourists' search for the 'Other' (e.g. Desmond, 1997;Kirschenblatt-Gimblett, 1991;Weiler & Hall, 1992;Wood, 1997), the commoditisation of culture (e.g. Cohen, 1988;Graburn, 1976;Greenwood, 1982;Harrell, 2001;Swain, 1995), authenticity (e.g.…”

Section: Whose Culture Is It Anyway? Anthropological Perspectives On mentioning

confidence: 99%