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Manufacturing Urban Heritage, Consuming Cultural Tradition
Manufacturing Urban Heritage, Consuming Cultural Tradition: Implications for a Global History in the Age of Tourism
© Nezar AlSayyad, 2002
University of California, Berkeley
nezar@uclink4.berkeley.edu
This talk is about the manufacture of heritage and the consumption of tradition in the era of global tourism. It is reasonable to argue that globalization is nothing new, since the globalization of commodity exchange and financial transactions have characterized the capitalist economy from its genesis. But I think that such analogies are carried too far, for the differences between the new phase and earlier ones are quite significant. One of the new features of this new phase of globalization is the phenomenal rise in mass travel tourism. (...)
Find more about this very interesting issue at: European University of St Petersburg - http://www.eu.spb.ru/newglobalhistory/en/nalsayyad.html
© Nezar AlSayyad, 2002
University of California, Berkeley
nezar@uclink4.berkeley.edu
This talk is about the manufacture of heritage and the consumption of tradition in the era of global tourism. It is reasonable to argue that globalization is nothing new, since the globalization of commodity exchange and financial transactions have characterized the capitalist economy from its genesis. But I think that such analogies are carried too far, for the differences between the new phase and earlier ones are quite significant. One of the new features of this new phase of globalization is the phenomenal rise in mass travel tourism. (...)
Find more about this very interesting issue at: European University of St Petersburg - http://www.eu.spb.ru/newglobalhistory/en/nalsayyad.html
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