Coloniality and tourism: the fabric of identities and alterities in India

Country crossed by the colonial matrix, India constitutes a relevant example for thinking about tourist situations and showing how institutional (Indian government) and non-institutional actors (companies, domestic tourists, members of the diaspora) mobilize tourist imaginaries for support or redefi...

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Main Author: Anthony Goreau-Ponceaud
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Published: Association Via@ 2020-03-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/viatourism/4251
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description Country crossed by the colonial matrix, India constitutes a relevant example for thinking about tourist situations and showing how institutional (Indian government) and non-institutional actors (companies, domestic tourists, members of the diaspora) mobilize tourist imaginaries for support or redefine collective identities and alterities - even sometimes reinforce them. This contribution seeks, on the one hand, to question the processes by which tourism in India has become a political instrument, facilitating the rewriting the national myth by erasing the stigma of colonization while reifying the West, and on the other hand, to show, from intermediate situations – the Indian diaspora and Indian domestic tourism - how hybridizations are forged in which post- and decolonial paradigms act on identities.
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Coloniality and tourism: the fabric of identities and alterities in India
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coloniality
India
exoticism
hybridizations
indian diaspora
title Coloniality and tourism: the fabric of identities and alterities in India
title_full Coloniality and tourism: the fabric of identities and alterities in India
title_fullStr Coloniality and tourism: the fabric of identities and alterities in India
title_full_unstemmed Coloniality and tourism: the fabric of identities and alterities in India
title_short Coloniality and tourism: the fabric of identities and alterities in India
title_sort coloniality and tourism the fabric of identities and alterities in india
topic domestic tourism
coloniality
India
exoticism
hybridizations
indian diaspora
url https://journals.openedition.org/viatourism/4251
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