The host gaze in global tourism /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2013.
• Subjects: Tourism > Psychological aspects.; Culture and tourism.; Culture and globalization.; Social Psychology and Social Anthropology, (New March 2000); Tourism and Travel.; Attitudes.; Cultural values.; Host guest relations.; Psychosocial aspects.; Tourism.; Electronic books.
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This book is about host-guest encounters in tourism, and specifically focuses on the host gaze. It identifies the aspects of the host gaze that distinguish it from the tourist gaze and from the conventional gaze encountered. It also identifies different types of host gazes and roles associated with...

Table of Contents:

• Gazemaking: Le Regard - Do You Hear Me? / Omar Moufakkir and Yvette Reisinger
• The Scopic Drive of Tourism: Foucault and Eye Dialectic / Keith Hollinshead and Vannsy Kuon
• Gaze and Self: Host Internalization of the Tourist Gaze / Bonnie Canziani and Jennifer Francioni
• The Thai Host Gaze: Alterity and the Governance of Visitors in Thailand / Ian A. Morrison
• Turkish Host Gaze at Russian Tourists: a Cultural Perspective / Yvette Reisinger, Metin Kozak and Esmé Visser
• A Host Gaze Composed of Mediated Resistance in Panamá: Power Inversion in Kuna Yala / Amy Savener
• The Host Gaze on Current Christian Pilgrims in Israel: Tour Guides Gazing / Alon Gelbman and Noga Collins-Kreiner
• Picturing Tourism: Conceptualizing the Gambian Host Gaze through Photographs / Helen Pattison
• You Never Know Who is Going to be on Tour: Reflections on the Indigenous Host Gaze from an Alaskan Case Study / Alexis Celeste Bunten
• Looking Down, Looking Out and Looking Forward: Tibetan Youth View Tourism in the Future / Mao-Ying Wu and Philip Pearce
• Perceived Host Gaze in the Context of Short-Term Mission Trips / Yoon Jung Lee and Ulrike Gretzel
• Couchsurfing Through the Lens of Agential Realism: Intra-Active Constructions of Identity and Challenging the Subject-Object Dualism / Michael O'Regan
• Gaze, Encounter and Philosophies of Otherness / Jo Ankor and Stephen Wearing
• The Bellman and the Prison Officer: Customer Care in Imperfect Panopticons / Thomas Ugelvik
• The Third Gaze: De-constructing the Host Gaze in the Psychoanalysis of Tourism / Omar Moufakkir
• Real-and-Imagined Women: Goddess America Meets the World / Petri Hottola
• Synthesis - the Eye of Power in and Through Tourism: the Banal Ubiquity of Agents of Naturalization / Keith Hollinshead and Chunxiao Hou
• Conclusion / Yvette Reisinger and Omar Moufakkir.