Virtual globalization : virtual spaces/tourist spaces / David Holmes.
"This book examines the interrelationship between the telecommunications and tourism in shaping the nature of space, place and the urban at the end of the twentieth century. They discuss how these agents are instrumental inthe production of homogenous world-spaces, and how these in turn presupp...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London, England ; New York, NY :
Routledge,
2001.
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| Series: | Routledge advances in sociology ;
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| Summary: | "This book examines the interrelationship between the telecommunications and tourism in shaping the nature of space, place and the urban at the end of the twentieth century. They discuss how these agents are instrumental inthe production of homogenous world-spaces, and how these in turn presuppose new kinds of political and cultural identity. This work will be of essential interest to scholars and students in the fields of sociology, geography, cultural studies and media studies."--Publisher description. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 269 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0415236738 9780415236737 0203469127 9780203469125 |