S3 #8 | Contending With 50 Years of the Tourist | Dean MacCannell

The End of Tourism

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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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