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Tourist Trap
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Public Culture (2003) 15 (2): 371–372.
Published: 01 May 2003
... the field
Claire Valier
Tourist Trap
“This is my son.” Andoni Ulgade Zubiri...
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“First Contact” and Other Israeli Fictions: Tourism, Globalization, and the Middle East Peace Process
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Public Culture (2002) 14 (3): 515–544.
Published: 01 September 2002
...: Tourism, Nation-Making, and Geographies of“Peace” in Contemporary Israel (forthcoming). Abu-Tuma, Khalid. 1995 . `Iton beyarden: Hatayarim hayisraelim qamtzamim veokhlim raq falafel [Newspaper in Jordan: The Israeli tourists are stingy and only eat falafel]. Yerushalayim , 8 September...
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Managing the Other of Nature: Sustainability, Spectacle, and Global Regimes of Capital in Ecotourism
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Public Culture (1996) 8 (3): 539–566.
Published: 01 September 1996
..., xi -xii. Bezaury-Creel , Juan E. 1991 . “Channeling Tourist from a Mass Market: The Sian Ka'an: Biosphere Reserve Experiment.” In Ecotourism and Resource Conservation , Vol. 1, ed. J. Kusler. Madison: Omnipress, 109 -114. Boo , Elizabeth . 1990 . Ecotourism: The Potentials...
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Manaus: Television from the Borderless
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Public Culture (1995) 7 (2): 455–464.
Published: 01 May 1995
... at the Manaus airport first-time flyers are immediately
struck by the interaction of two thriving enterprises of the local economy-the
Amazon tourist business and the duty-free zone. As in most airports, passengers
are met by relatives, friends and business contacts; yet at Manaus International...
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Consuming Geist : Popontology and the Spirit of Capital in Indigenous Australia
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Public Culture (2000) 12 (2): 501–528.
Published: 01 May 2000
... classifi-
catory mother Gracie Binbin described the renovations as an Aboriginal counter-
movement to the movement of non-Aboriginal desires. “Tourists coming,” she
said. “Ansett coming to Port Keats. Drop them tourist off. Maybe they look
museum. Listen to bush stories. Might be bush food. Fly back...
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The Billboard Campaign: The Los Alamos Study Group and the Nuclear Public Sphere
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Public Culture (2005) 17 (3): 487–498.
Published: 01 September 2005
.... For Mello, the project is also intended to “slow down” the
media space in order to encourage public contemplation in a largely commuter
and tourist economy, thereby transforming New Mexico’s road culture into a new
conceptual space for political critique. As part of a larger activist effort in New...
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Bloody Mary Meets Lois-Ann Yamanaka: Imagining Hawaiian Locality from South Pacific to Bamboo Ridge
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Public Culture (1995) 8 (1): 127–158.
Published: 01 January 1995
... . The Tourist Gaze: Leisure and Travel in Contemporary Societies. London: Sage Publications. Williams , Raymond . 1989 . “Decentralism and the Politics of Space.” In Robin Glade, ed., Resources of Hope: Culture, Democracy, Socialism. London: Verso. Wilson , Rob . 1993 . “Blue Hawaii: Bamboo...
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From the Ruins: The Constitution Hill Project
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Public Culture (2004) 16 (3): 507–519.
Published: 01 September 2004
.... An international competition was held for the design of the
court and won by an exceptional, a truly exceptional team of young South
African architects. And then we were brought in to try and figure out how
to give this place meaning; how to interpret it as a heritage site, a tourist
site, a place of education...
Journal Article
Displaced Bodies in Residual Spaces
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Public Culture (2005) 17 (1): 129–152.
Published: 01 January 2005
... mean those contexts in which sites of history have
become tourist sites but rather what it means to live history through the par-
adigm of tourism, to experience historical events via the media, via a text,
through commodities and souvenirs or through someone else’s memory.
The subjectivity...
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Reconfigurations of Geography and Historical Narrative: A Review Essay
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Public Culture (1990) 3 (1): 25–32.
Published: 01 January 1990
... Culture
fits from perpetuating the representation of paradise? Who benefits from the
raw sewage in the pretty bay, the erosion of Antiguan culture, the condos
and time-shares Since the “exotic” food the tourist eats is probably
flown in on the same plane as the tourist, A Small PZace abounds...
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Artworks
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Public Culture (1997) 10 (1): 201–210.
Published: 01 January 1997
... over by the city council and in the process transformed. The Glasgow
Development Agency, the European Regional Development Fund, and the Scot-
tish Tourist Board offered additional support. St. Mungo’s Cathedral is now asso-
ciated with a singularly ecumenical museum, claiming—accurately—to repre...
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Beyond The Trocadero: Mickey's Wild West Show and More
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Public Culture (1993) 5 (3): 607–613.
Published: 01 September 1993
... to serve the touristic interests of Parisians
and other passersby who started visiting the construction site in weekend droves
when this $4.4 billion project began.
In mid-March of 1992, the Euro Disney site stood in stark contrast to the
slick promotional images posted on the subterranean...
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On Tracking World Cinema: African Cinema at Film Festivals
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Public Culture (1994) 6 (2): 385–396.
Published: 01 May 1994
... from Burundi, fashion shows, and
business entrepreneurship in the streets of Ouagadougou. It is a festival of the
sponsors: the festival cares more about pleasing the French tourists than about
African filmmakers. For 5,000 Francs CFA (about twenty dollars), anybody can
buy a badge stating...
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Customs Review of Public Culture: The US and Africa in Melbourne
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Public Culture (1989) 2 (1): 130–135.
Published: 01 January 1989
... that are produced for use within the culture, within the tribe, within
the village, and then there are (despicable, cheap and nasty) 'tourist pieces'.
Do not take your airport bargains in for evaluation at these galleries because
the criteria of credibility are set down and can be judged: a piece may...
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Burlesquing Blackness: Racial Significations in Carnivals and the Carnivalesque on Colombia’s Caribbean Coast
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (1): 5–20.
Published: 01 January 2019
... of its reinforcement, particularly as it becomes a greater vehicle of prosperity for the state and municipalities, reproducing the alterity that tourists find so enticing. When nonwhiteness can be selectively commodified, it can serve as a key additive in development strategies involving urban boosterism...
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A Chinese Dream by Wang Jin
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Public Culture (2000) 12 (1): 74–92.
Published: 01 January 2000
... of “tourist art” and implying the non-
Chinese identity of a potential buyer. (The Chinese title is Hongchen Zhongguo,
or Material China.) This self-awareness of the work’s commercial nature explains
Wang Jin’s appropriation of a Peking Opera costume. While Peking Opera has not
died in China, it has been...
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The Park Pass: Peopling and Civilizing a New Old Beijing
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (3): 551–576.
Published: 01 September 2009
... at these hours, ticket sellers and ticket
takers have little to do. Almost everyone going through the gates at these early
hours has an annual park pass. In any case, no one bothers to check passes or tick-
ets until later, when Chinese tourists and foreigners start showing up. The large
numbers...
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Miscellany
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Public Culture (1988) 1 (1): 58–61.
Published: 01 January 1988
... is Nov. 12. A media
extravaganza is planned, with news feeds directed to networks in London, New York and
Sydney, with speakers including U.S.Ambassador Winston Lord.
A unique feature of the restaurant is that food can be bought with both the currency
available to tourists and that limited...
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“Your Grief Is Our Gossip”: Overseas Filipinos and Other Spectral Presences
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Public Culture (1997) 9 (2): 267–291.
Published: 01 May 1997
...-state. At the same
time, being a balikbayan depends on one’s permanent residence abroad. It means
that one lives somewhere else and that one’s appearance in the Philippines is tem-
porary and intermittent, as if one were a tourist...
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Japanese No-Noh: The Crosstalk of Public Culture in a Rural Festivity
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Public Culture (1990) 2 (2): 65–81.
Published: 01 May 1990
... at a shrine in
Kurokawa, a village in northern Japan, for an annual festivity that includes
Shint6 ritual, youthful competitions, copious drinking, and all-night presen-
tations of stately Noh drama. In 1989, the assembled included local parish-
ioners of the shrine, friends and relatives, tourists...
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