Tours of non-arrival: the politics of escape in tourist practices

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dc.contributor.authorBagelman, Caroline Patricia
dc.contributor.supervisorKroker, Arthur
dc.date.accessioned2009-08-31T22:57:28Z
dc.date.available2009-08-31T22:57:28Z
dc.date.copyright2009en
dc.date.issued2009-08-31T22:57:28Z
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Political Science
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en
dc.description.abstractThe prevalent frame of 'tourism as vacation' explicitly implies that one vacates 'the familiar' and escapes to 'the foreign'. Discourses of escape, therefore, function on the assumption that a rather clean and uncomplicated rupture between the familiar and foreign takes place (an assumption not only informing conventional readings and practices of tourism, but also the modern logic of states and citizenship and modern thought more broadly). A failure to account for the effects of this escapist logic on both the performance and materialization of tourism, as well as the ways in which tourism has come to reflect profound political problematics endemic to modern thought, has produced a serious gap in 'critical tourism' literature. To contest this notion of rupture, or, to disrupt escape, requires what Judith Butler terms a ‘radical re-articulation’ of tourism. In hopes to excite such a disruption, my work draws on Jacques Derrida’s texts concerning ‘non-arrival’ and ultimately re-articulates tourism as a practice of everyday life.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/1708
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben
dc.subjectPolitical theoryen
dc.subjectPolitics of tourismen
dc.subjectEscapist discoursesen
dc.subjectNon-arrivalen
dc.subjectTourist gazeen
dc.subjectCritical tourismen
dc.subject.lcshUVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social Sciencesen
dc.titleTours of non-arrival: the politics of escape in tourist practicesen
dc.typeThesisen

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