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  • Resort Spatiality: Reimagining Sites of Mass Tourism

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    Author(s)
    Cantillon, Zelmarie A.
    Primary Supervisor
    Wise, Patricia
    Other Supervisors
    Baker, Sarah
    Year published
    2017
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    Abstract
    This dissertation theorises resorts – destinations famous for ‘sun, sand and sex’ mass tourism – as distinct kinds of urban milieux. Taking account of their similarities as well as their differences, I focus on six international destinations: the Gold Coast, Australia; Miami, United States of America; Cancún, Mexico; Ibiza, Spain; and Phuket and Koh Phangan, Thailand. Drawing on the work of Lefebvre, Soja, Massey, Highmore and Deleuze and Guattari, I attend to the material and symbolic production of lived spaces in these resorts. In particular, I consider the mutually constitutive, mutually transformative relations between ...
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    This dissertation theorises resorts – destinations famous for ‘sun, sand and sex’ mass tourism – as distinct kinds of urban milieux. Taking account of their similarities as well as their differences, I focus on six international destinations: the Gold Coast, Australia; Miami, United States of America; Cancún, Mexico; Ibiza, Spain; and Phuket and Koh Phangan, Thailand. Drawing on the work of Lefebvre, Soja, Massey, Highmore and Deleuze and Guattari, I attend to the material and symbolic production of lived spaces in these resorts. In particular, I consider the mutually constitutive, mutually transformative relations between their spatial formations, built environments, popular imaginaries, representations, narratives of identity, rhythms, and the experiences and practices of both tourists and locals. To investigate these dynamics, I conducted extensive literature research and undertook fieldwork in each of these resorts. My applied methods included a mixture of participant observation, photography, rhythmanalysis, and semistructured interviews with resort residents. Recognising the impossibility of ever comprehensively representing infinitely complex sites such as these, the methods were intended to be impressionistic, partial and to some degree autoethnographic. The places, phenomena, observations and findings I discuss are taken to be ‘examples’ in Agamben’s (1993) sense – singular instances which nonetheless provide insight into wider social and cultural processes.
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    Thesis Type
    Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
    Degree Program
    Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
    School
    School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.25904/1912/2911
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    Subject
    Mass tourism destinations
    Gold Coast, Australia
    Miami, United States of America
    Cancún, Mexico
    Ibiza, Spain
    Phuket and Koh Phangan, Thailand
    Holiday resorts
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367163
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