Tourist Utopias

This books investigates 'tourist utopias' as cultural laboratories for testing new protocols for neoliberal governance and capitalist production.

Auteur

TimothySimpson is associate professor of communication and associate dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Macau.

Contenu

Prolegomenon 1. Mapping Tourist Utopias (Tim Simpson)2. The Zone is on Vacation (Keller Easterling)Enclaves3. Instant Cities in the Jungle: Fantasies of Modernity for Whom? (Pal Nyiri)4. After Utopia: Macau as a Tourist Utopia (Tim Simpson)5. Choreographing Singapore's Utopia by the Bay (Daniel P. S. Goh)6. Cultural Utopia: Abu Dhabi's Island of Happiness and the Development of a Cultural Enclave (Yasser Elshewtawy)Imaginaries7. Disney's Utopian Techo-Futures: Tomorrow's World that We Should Build Today (Angela Ndalianis)8. Tourism and a Virtual Bulgaria (Benjamin Kidder Hodges)9. Sublimity, Sovereignty, and Sophistry: The Trouble in Middle Earth (Margaret Werry)Archipelagos10. From Dubai to Mount Athos: Carving Islands of Fear and Hope (Veronica della Dora)Macau Utopics: A Visual Essay (Adam Lampton)