[ecrea] NEW BOOK: Thanatourism and Cinematic Representations of Risk: Screening the End of Tourism

www.routledge.com/9781138652644 <http://www.routledge.com/9781138652644>

http://rtzanelliinterdisciplinary.blogspot.co.uk/2016_02_01_archive.html
In today’s world, the need to eliminate natural and human-made disasters 
has been at the forefront of national and international socio-political 
agendas. The management of risks such as terrorism, labour strikes, 
protests and environmental degradation has become pivotal for countries 
that depend on their economy’s tourist sector. Indeed, there is fear 
that that ‘the end of tourism’ might be nigh due to inadequate 
institutional foresight. Yet, in designing relevant policies to tackle 
this, arts such as that of filmmaking have yet to receive due consideration.

This book adopts an unorthodox approach to debates about ‘the end of 
tourism’. Through twenty-first century cinematic narratives of 
symbolically interconnected ‘risks’ it considers how art envisages the 
future of humanity’s well-being. These ‘risks’ include: migration as an 
infectious disease; alien incursions as racialized labour mobilities; 
cyborg rebellion as the fear of post-colonial otherness; and zombie 
anthropophagy as the replacement of rooted identities by nomadic lifestyles.

Such filmic scenarios articulate the futuristic survival of community as 
the triumph of the technological human over otherness, and provide a 
means to debate societal risks that weave identity politics into unequal 
mobilities. This book will appeal to researchers and students interested 
in mobilities theory, tourism and travel theory, film studies and 
aesthetics, globalisation studies, race, labour and migration.

Rodanthi Tzanelli Projects and Blogs: Rodanthi’s Artsite - 
https://sites.google.com/site/rodanthisartsite/ Identity & Tourism - 
http://sociology.leeds.ac.uk/blogs/identity-and-tourism/category/uncategorized/ 
Rodanthi Tzanelli’s Teaching - 
https://sites.google.com/site/rodanthitzanellisteaching/home Work 
Address: Sociology & Social Policy University of Leeds Social Sciences 
Building, 12.16 Woodhouse Lane LS2 9JT Webpage: 
http://www.sociology.leeds.ac.uk/about/staff/tzanelli.php E-mail: 
(r.tzanelli /at/ leeds.ac.uk)


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