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050			_aG155.N5W47
082			_a306.4'8190993-- _bdc23
100			_aWerry, Margaret _91847
245		4	_aThe Tourist State _b: Performing Leisure, Liberalism, and Race in New Zealand _c/ Margaret Werry
260			_aUSA; _bUniversity Of Minnesota Press; _c2011
300			_a352p; _c21x15cm
520			_aNo longer the dreary sheep farm at the end of the world, the New Zealand of the new millennium is a hot global ticket, heralded for its bicultural dynamism, laid-back lifestyle, and scenery extraordinary enough to pass for Tolkien’s Middle Earth. How this image was crafted is the story The Tourist State tells. In a series of narratives that address the embodied dimensions of biopolitics and explore the collision of race, performance, and the cultural poetics of the state, Margaret Werry exposes the real drama behind the new New Zealand, revealing how a nation was sold to the world—and to itself. The story stretches back to the so-called Liberal Era at the beginning of the twentieth century, in which the young settler colony touted itself as the social laboratory of the world. Focusing on where tourism and liberal governmentality coincide, The Tourist State takes us from military diplomacy at the dawn of the American Pacific to the exotic blandishments of Broadway and Coney Island, from landscape preservation to health reform and town planning, from blockbuster film to knowledge economy policy.
546			_aEnglish
650			_aG154.9-155.8 Travel and state. Tourism _91593
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