Description
My guest on this episode is Dean MacCannell, a social analyst and critic whose writings on contemporary cultural arrangements have been translated worldwide. He is best known for his path-breaking book, The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class. His most recent book is 18 & Out a memoir of his childhood and youth.
In this interview we discuss Dean's pioneering book The Tourist and how it rooted the entire area of critical tourism studies. We look back into mass tourism's emergence in the 1970s and 1980s, what has changed in that time, how tourists' own homes have become destinations, the loss of human connection, hyperculture, the rise of anti-tourism social movements, how we can understand ourselves and the foreigner as radically other and how that might hold they key for interculturality in our times.
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Dean MacCannell's UC Davis Page
The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class
18 & Out by Dean MacCannell
Dean's Goodreads Page
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Show Notes
John Urry’s The Tourist Gaze
Photography
The Senses
Surveillance and Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Spectacle
Homework
Transcript
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