The Impact of Tourism in East Africa

Angelika Mietzner, Anne Storch

Description

First book to examine linguistic encounters in tourism in Africa in detail

This book explores the relationship between imperial formations and individual encounters at African tourist sites – spaces of leisure, healing and work. It examines how encounters between tourists and hosts tend to be constructed along colonial thought lines and considers how players in the hospitality industry do not interact as coeval participants, but are racialised, scripted and positioned according to colonially-established order. The authors focus on the language of these encounters, not only speech, performance and response, but also silence, resonance, emptiness, noise – objectified, materialised, evasive and confusing. Through its exploration of language in these encounters, the volume shows that ruination is the one feature that is omnipresent in the multiple and diverse tourist settings of the postcolonial world. This book is open access under a CC BY ND licence.

Figures and Boxes

Abbreviations

Check-in

Chapter 1. Boarding

Chapter 2. Terrible Magical Ways of Healing

Chapter 3. The Philosophy of Hakuna Matata

Chapter 4. Karen

Chapter 5. Highway to Hell

Chapter 6. Ruins on the Beach

Chapter 7. Relocation and Relationships

Chapter 8. On Various Boundaries

Chapter 9. Hostility on a T-Shirt

Chapter 10. Movies on Sex Tourism that You Shouldn’t Miss

Chapter 11. The Ancient Speaker

Chapter 12. Cooking Class

Chapter 13. Glossy Glossary

References

Index

Sujets

• Industries
• POLITICAL SCIENCE
• Employabilité, métiers et formations
• África
• Linguistics
• Hospitality
• Professional
• Undergraduate education
• Travel
• Postgraduate education
• Sociolinguistics
• Tourism
• Imperialism
• Economics
• Business
• Impérialisme (jeu vidéo)
• Research
• Postgraduate
• Undergraduate
• Africa
• Industrie

Informations

• Publié par: Channel View Publications
• Date de parution: 25 mai 2021
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781845418397
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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The Impact of Tourism in East Africa
TOURISM AND CULTURAL CHANGE
Series Editors : Professor Mike Robinson, Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage, University of Birmingham, UK and Professor Alison Phipps, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Understanding tourism’s relationships with culture(s) and vice versa is of ever-increasing significance in a globalising world. TCC is a series of books that critically examine the complex and ever-changing relationship between tourism and culture(s). The series focuses on the ways that places, peoples, pasts and ways of life are increasingly shaped/transformed/­created/packaged for touristic purposes. The series examines the ways tourism utilises/makes and re-makes cultural capital in its various guises (visual and performing arts, crafts, festivals, built heritage, cuisine, etc.) and the multifarious political, economic, social and ethical issues that are raised as a consequence. Theoretical explorations, research-informed analyses and detailed historical reviews from a variety of disciplinary ­perspectives are invited to consider such relationships.
All books in this series are externally peer-reviewed.
Full details of all the books in this series and of all our other publications can be found on http://www.channelviewpublications.com , or by writing to Channel View Publications, St Nicholas House, 31–34 High Street, Bristol BS1 2AW, UK.
TOURISM AND CULTURAL CHANGE: 58
The Impact of Tourism in East Africa
A Ruinous System
Anne Storch and Angelika Mietzner
CHANNEL VIEW PUBLICATIONS
Bristol • Blue Ridge Summit
DOI https://doi.org/10.21832/STORCH8373
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Names: Storch, Anne, author. | Mietzner, Angelika, author.
Title: The Impact of Tourism in East Africa: A Ruinous System/Anne Storch and Angelika Mietzner.
Description: Blue Ridge Summit: Channel View Publications, 2021. | Series: Tourism and Cultural Change: 58 | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “This book explores the relationship between imperial formations and individual encounters at African tourist sites. It examines how encounters between tourists and hosts tend to be constructed along colonial thought lines and shows that ruination is omnipresent in postcolonial tourist settings. This book is open access under a CC BY ND licence”— Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020056466 (print) | LCCN 2020056467 (ebook) | ISBN 9781845418366 (paperback) | ISBN 9781845418373 (hardback) | ISBN 9781845418380 (pdf) | ISBN 9781845418397 (epub) | ISBN 9781845418403 (kindle edition) Subjects: LCSH: Tourism—Social aspects—Africa, East. | Language and culture—Africa, East. | Sociolinguistics—Africa, East.
Classification: LCC G156.5.S63 S76 2021 (print) | LCC G156.5.S63 (ebook) | DDC 306.48190967—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020056466
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Contents
Figures and Boxes
Abbreviations
Check-in
1 Boarding
Language and Tourism
Sound and Light Show
Sounds in a Village
Work Trips
Structure of this Book
2 Terrible Magical Ways of Healing
Angelika Took a Plane to Mombasa
Salty Water Ends Somewhere
Coconut Palm Trees Make a Pleasant Sight
The Truth Will Out
Language Itself Is a Curse
Coconut Oil
3 The Philosophy of Hakuna Matata
It Is Not Easy to Leave the Beach
The Genesis of Hakuna Matata as a Philosophy
Hakuna Matata Permeates Everything
Into the Hakuna Matata Void
Moving Out of the Hakuna Matata World
Worms Moving In
4 Karen
A House
A Woman
5 Highway to Hell
Transition Grammar
Roadside Narratives
6 Ruins on the Beach
Old Sites
Old Roads
7 Relocation and Relationships
Encounters on the Way
Sensual Stranger
A Moved Village
Speaking, Smelling and Settling
In the Showcase
8 On Various Boundaries
Tourism and Postcolonialism
Worldwide Known Insider Facts
Linguistic Landscaping
9 Hostility on a T-Shirt
Items with Language on Them
Three T-Shirts
Language Course
10 Movies on Sex Tourism that You Shouldn’t Miss
Competition, Image, Desire
Films
Watching Sand Dollars
Watching Patong Girl
Watching The White Masai
Watching Paradise Love
11 The Ancient Speaker
Language and Heritage
In the Exhibition: Language as Dead Matter
The Ancestors: Inverted Others, Tidy Pasts
Outside the Exhibition: Language of the Unlost
12 Cooking Class
Soup and Halva
Pepper Journey
Poisonous Stuff
13 Glossy Glossary
References
Index
Figures and Boxes
Figures
Figure 1.1
Linguistic landscape referring to a pilgrim
Figure 3.1
Sun protective lotion with the promise of no problem
Figure 3.2
Swahili as the language of Africa: A wall in Christiania (Copenhagen)
Figure 3.3
Mombasa airport waving goodbye with best greetings
Figure 4.1
A vague tractor
Figure 5.1
Owners of a school destroying their own road sign
Figure 5.2
Remnants of a house partly built on governmental land
Figure 5.3
Remnants of another house partly built on governmental land
Figure 5.4
Demolished by bulldozers: the wall of a school in Tiwi
Figure 5.5
No houses left
Figure 5.6
Demolition of homes
Figure 5.7
What is left: coloured walls of former happy homes
Figure 6.1
A vague giraffe
Figure 6.2
Giraffe and tree
Figure 6.3
Elephant, trees and palms
Figure 6.4
Elephant and pool (dry)
Figure 6.5
Buffalo and rhino amidst scenery
Figure 6.6
Numbered elephant
Figure 6.7
Ad and palm tree
Figure 6.8
Road and pine trees
Figure 6.9
More pine trees
Figure 6.10
Pine trees and cactus
Figure 6.11
Windmill ruins
Figure 6.12
Highway bridge
Figure 7.1
An emblematic rake, a tool for clearing the ground
Figure 8.1
Indian Ocean, wall and sunbeds
Figure 8.2
Signs warning about Beach Boys
Figure 8.3
Make sure to stay at a hotel that offers beach walks once a day. Armed officers will accompany you and other hotel inmates during a two-hour lasting tour. Beach Boys have to stay in a safety zone, being only verbally able to accompany the group, what they often do by throwing in words like ‘kindergarden’ or the like. It is unproblematic to ignore them
Figure 8.4
Staying in a place of wet feet guarantees distance from the Beach Boys. The picture is a proof of the possible existence of such a place – not first encounters, but first avoidance. The Beach Boys who have the chance to install themselves between the shore and the entrance of the hotel in order to offer necklaces and dhow tours will catch you if you don’t use the trick of running like hell
Figure 9.1
First T-shirt: Cairo
Figure 9.2
Second T-shirt: Zanzibar
Figure 9.3
Third T-shirt: Mallorca
Figure 10.1
Sexual geography
Figure 11.1
Signboard in Simon’s Town, South Africa
Figure 12.1
Chronotopes on a menu
Figure 12.2
Time eating away a signboard
Figure 12.3 a, b & c Cutting prior to cooking
Boxes
Insider Tip 8.1 Security advice
Insider Tip 8.2 Tourist stereotypes
Abbreviations
1,2,5,…
Swahili noun classes
1 sg
first-person singular
comp
comparative
def
definite
dir
directional
imp
imperative
intens
intensifier
interr
interrogative
loc
locative
mir.vis
visual mirative
neg
negative
o
object
pass
passive
past
past
pl
plural
poss
possessive
pres
present
rel
relative
sg
singular
unesco
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
v.o.c.
Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie
Check-in
Checking out, in fact. Checking out of disciplinary duress, debilitating constraints and restrictions – of how we should do and present research, represent academia and so on. Checking in to the real life that we always knew existed as well – outside imagined linguistic monotony and predictable regularity.
We happened to begin our work on tourism and language, reckless consumption and the words and silences that go along with it at around the time that a President of the United States was surprisingly elected. Just around that time, a group of prominent scholars, we recall, had published an essay on how they wondered whether they had lost