Geo
490c
The Country & the City
Spring 2009
Department of Geography
and Meteorology
Valparaiso
University
Today's Readings
Woods Chapter 12:
Selling the Countryside
Woods Chapter 13: Protecting the Countryside
Carter, Jennifer,
Pam Dyer, and Bishnu Sharma. 2007. Dis-placed
voices: sense of place and place-identity on the
Reading Notes: As you read think about
how tourism transforms rural places. Does tourism make sense as a rural
development strategy? To what extent does tourism destroy the very uniqueness
that makes it possible in the first place? How does a contrast between
utilitarian values and aesthetic values influence both tourism and preservation?
Key Terms: the tourist gaze, commodification of the rural, sense of place, place identity, tourism urbanization, preservation, conservation, national park
The tourist Gaze vs. Everyday Life
Commodification of the Rural
Themes: Rural Landscape, Nature, History, Family, Crafts
Types of Tourist Sites (Examples)
Production sites
The Big Pineapple (Future doesn't look good judging by the web site. More info from Wikipedia )
Rural Heritage
Frozen Dead Guy Days (Is this heritage?)
Fictional Places
Embodied Experience/Ecotourism
Cool Dingo Tour of Fraser Island vs. Footprints on Fraser
The Rural as a Marketing Device
Point of Purchase Perceptions: Selling Products with Place (video)
Disjuncture between sense of place and place identity
Airlie Beach Tourism vs.Airlie Beach Bum
Preservation
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