The Importance of Elsewhere
The Globalist Humanist Tourist
Distributed for Intellect Ltd
- Contents
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Chapter 1: Home and Away
Chapter 2: Should I Stay or Should I Go?
Chapter 3: Travel vs Tourism
Chapter 4: Fear of Flying
Chapter 5: Travel Reading: Reading Travel
Chapter 6: ‘The Importance of Elsewhere’
Part II: Engaging the World
Chapter 7: LEEDS: Literary Tourism
Chapter 8: Łódź: Monty Python’s Academic Circus
Chapter 9: Copenhagen: Projecting a Triumphant Queer Moment
Chapter 10: London: Sex 2.0
Chapter 11: Cottbus: Weltspiegel
Chapter 12: Baghdad: Reconstructing Iraqi Academe
Chapter 13: Berlin: The Psychogeography of Tempelhof Airport
Chapter 14: Tierra del Fuego: Penguins at the End of the World
Chapter 15: Zagreb: The Subversive Summit
Chapter 16: Szolnok: Science and Film
Chapter 17: Berlin: Gestapo Headquarters
Chapter 18: Dubai: A Cinematic Door to the Middle East
Chapter 19: Warsaw: The Bores of Academe
Chapter 20: Courmayeur: Noir
Chapter 21: Svalbard: Introduction to Arctic Studies
Postscript
Acknowledgements
References
Notes
Index
Anthropology: Cultural and Social Anthropology
Travel and Tourism: Tourism and History
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