The Impact of Tourism in East Africa

112 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h24min.
First book to examine linguistic encounters in tourism in Africa in detailThis book explores the relationship between imperial formations and individual encounters at African tourist sites – spaces of leisure, healing and work. It examines how encounters between tourists and hosts tend to be constructed along colonial thought lines and considers how players in the hospitality industry do not interact as coeval participants, but are racialised, scripted and positioned according to colonially-established order. The authors focus on the language of these encounters, not only speech, performance and response, but also silence, resonance, emptiness, noise – objectified, materialised, evasive and confusing. Through its exploration of language in these encounters, the volume shows that ruination is the one feature that is omnipresent in the multiple and diverse tourist settings of the postcolonial world. This book is open access under a CC BY ND licence.Figures and Boxes Abbreviations Check-in Chapter 1. Boarding Chapter 2. Terrible Magical Ways of Healing Chapter 3. The Philosophy of Hakuna Matata Chapter 4. Karen Chapter 5. Highway to Hell Chapter 6. Ruins on the Beach Chapter 7. Relocation and Relationships Chapter 8. On Various Boundaries Chapter 9. Hostility on a T-Shirt Chapter 10. Movies on Sex Tourism that You Shouldn’t Miss Chapter 11. The Ancient Speaker Chapter 12. Cooking Class Chapter 13. Glossy Glossary References Index