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Margaret Werry - Tourist State - 9780816666065 - V9780816666065
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Tourist State

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Description for Tourist State Paperback. Series: Quadrant Book. Num Pages: 352 pages, 26 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MBN; AS; JFCA; KNSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.

No longer the dreary sheep farm at the end of the world, the New Zealand of the new millennium is a hot global ticket, heralded for its bicultural dynamism, laid-back lifestyle, and scenery extraordinary enough to pass for Tolkien’s Middle Earth. How this image was crafted is the story The Tourist State tells. In a series of narratives that address the embodied dimensions of biopolitics and explore the collision of race, performance, and the cultural poetics of the state, Margaret Werry exposes the real drama behind the new New Zealand, revealing how a nation was sold to the world—and to ... Read more

The story stretches back to the so-called Liberal Era at the beginning of the twentieth century, in which the young settler colony touted itself as the social laboratory of the world. Focusing on where tourism and liberal governmentality coincide, The Tourist State takes us from military diplomacy at the dawn of the American Pacific to the exotic blandishments of Broadway and Coney Island, from landscape preservation to health reform and town planning, from blockbuster film to knowledge economy policy.

Weaving together interpretive history, performance ethnography, and cultural criticism, Werry offers new ways to think about race and indigeneity—and about the role of human agency in state-making.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Series
Quadrant Book
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816666065
SKU
V9780816666065
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Margaret Werry
Margaret Werry is associate professor of theatre arts and dance at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

Reviews for Tourist State
"The Tourist State is a substantial work of theatrical insight and applied critical theory. It approaches the theoretical sublime, showing rich learning and originality in scaled and shrewd ways." —Rob Wilson, University of California, Santa Cruz

Goodreads reviews for Tourist State


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