Transnational Tourism Experiences at Gallipoli
This book offers a fresh account of the Anzac myth and the bittersweet emotional experience of Gallipoli tourists. Challenging the straightforward view of the Anzac obsession as a kind of nationalistic military Halloween, it shows how transnational developments in tourism and commemoration have crea...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Singapore :
Springer Singapore ,
2018.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2018. |
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| ISBN: | 9789811300264 |
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| Summary: | This book offers a fresh account of the Anzac myth and the bittersweet emotional experience of Gallipoli tourists. Challenging the straightforward view of the Anzac obsession as a kind of nationalistic military Halloween, it shows how transnational developments in tourism and commemoration have created the conditions for a complex, dissonant emotional experience of sadness, humility, anger, pride and empathy among Anzac tourists. Drawing on the in-depth testimonies of travellers from Australia and New Zealand, McKay shines a new and more complex light on the history and cultural politics of the Anzac myth. As well as making a ground breaking, empirically-based intervention into the culture wars, this book offersnew insights into the global memory boom and transnational developments in backpacker tourism, sports tourism and "dark" or "dissonant" tourism. |
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| Item Description: | Social Sciences |
| Physical Description: | XVII, 185 p. online resource. |
| ISBN: | 9789811300264 |