Tourism, modernity and the consumption of home in China

Tourists have long been neglected in the literature on home and mobility, although they constitute a massive mobile population within and across national borders. Addressing this gap, this paper advances geography's critical engagement with home in relation to mobility and modernity, and questi...

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Veröffentlicht in:Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. in. - Royal Geographical Society (With the Institute of British Geographers), 1935. - 39(2014), 1, Seite 50-61
1. Verfasser: Su, Xiaobo (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2014
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