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Class & Due Dates
Unpacking Tourism
January
16 Introduction to Travel Worlds course: In-class
work, and video: Trekking on
Tradition
23 Tourism and Sustainability (Mowforth & Munt), Chapters 1-3, pp.
1-83.
[R] Urry, John, “The Tourist Gaze Revisited”
video: Global Tourism
30 Assignment 1 Due.
Tourism and Sustainability, Chapter 4, pp. 84-124
Life and Death on Mt. Everest, Chapters 1-3, pp. 3-89
[R] Hollinshead, Keith and Tazim B. Jamal, “Delving into Discourse:
Excavating the Inbuilt Power-Logic(s) of Tourism”
February
6 Tourism and Sustainability, Chapters 5-6, pp. 125-187
[R] Vivanco, Luis, “Spectacular Quetzals, Ecotourism, and Environmental
Futures in Monte Verde, Costa Rica”
video: TBA
13 Tourism and Sustainability, Chapter 7, pp. 188-236
Life and Death on Mt. Everest, Chapters 4-5, pp. 90-148
Assignment 2 Due
Eco-tourism and ego-tourism in the Third World
20 Life and Death on Mt. Everest, Chapter 6-7, pp. 149-216
[R] McLaren, Deborah, Rethinking Tourism and Ecotravel., Chapter 5,
“Rethinking ecotravel”
[R] Belsky, Jill, “The Meaning of the Manatee”
Assignment
3: RTP and TIES [web sites and analysis of ecotourism].
27 Tourism and
Sustainability, Chapter 8, pp.237-279
Life and Death on Mt. Everest, Chapter 8, pp. 217-247
Assignment 3 Due
March
6 Guest Speaker:
Luis Vivanco
[R] Vivanco, L., “The International Year of Ecotourism in an Age of Uncertainty”
Tourism and Sustainability, Chapter 9, pp. 280-317
RTP (Rethinking Tourism Project)
Pleumarom, Anita, “Do We Need the International Year of Ecotourism?”
At: http://www.twnside.org.sg/title/iye1.htm
13 Life and Death on
Mt. Everest, Chapter 9-10 (Epilogue), pp. 248-293
Spring Break
Tourism and Terrorism
27 [R] Mansfield, Yoel, “Cycles of War, Terror & Peace:
Determinants and Management of Crisis
and Recovery of the Israeli Tourism Industry.”
[R] Adams, Kathleeen, "Danger-zone
tourism..."
[R] Kaur, R., and John Hutnyk,
Travel Worlds, Chapter 7 (Peter Phipps). “Tourists, Terrorists,
Death and Value,” pp. 74-89.
Assignment 4 Due
Culture, Bodies, and Governmentality
April
3 Staging Tourism: Bodies on Display from Waikiki
to Sea World., Desmond, Jane, Intro-Chapter 2 (“Picturing Hawaii).
Pp. xiii-59.
[R] Castaneda, Quetzil,
"Maya Mysteries, Mirror for Man"
video: Incidents of Travel
in Chichen Itza
10 Staging Tourism, Chapter 3-Conclusion(“Pictures Come
to Life)”pp.60-141.
17 Staging Tourism, Part Two: "Staging the Natural," Intro.-Chapter
8 ("Looking at Animals," pp. 144-216
[R] Adams, Kathleen, “The Genesis of Touristic Imagery: Politics and
Poetics in the Creation of a Remote Indonesian Island Destination.”
[R] Michel Picard and R.E. Wood, Tourism, Ethnicity and the State in
Asian and Pacific Societies,
Chapter 7, “Cultural Tourism, Nation-Building, and Regional Culture:
The Making of a Balinese Identity,” pp. 181-206.
video: Sight Unseen
Assignment 5 Due
24 Staging Tourism, Part Two: Chapter 9 ("Performing Nature")-Conclusion,
pp.
217-266.
[R] Teresia Teaiwa, “bikinis, and other s/pacific n/oceans”
May
1 Final Exam
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