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Tourism and a Virtual Bulgaria | |
Benjamin Kidder Hodges | |
2017 | |
Source Publication | Tourist Utopias: Offshore Islands, Enclave Spaces, and Mobile Imaginaries |
Author of Source | Tim Simpson |
Publisher | Amsterdam University Press |
Pages | 167–188 |
Other Abstract | While the other chapters in this volume explore existing tourist enclaves, my focus is on the design and spatial production of virtual touristic and gaming spaces in Bulgaria, and the specific manner in which these sites deploy Bulgarian locales and motifs. These range from mythic wilderness landscapes to post-apocalyptic urban scenarios that mine the post-socialist, post-utopian cityscape of Bulgaria’s capital, Sofia. To that end I analyze theutopic(Marin 1984) construction of tourist locales which are perhaps only possible in virtual play. In the virtual world we can actually achieve that elusive Utopian conflation of ‘good place’ and ‘non-place’, the very impossibility of which created the 'conditions of possibility' for More's original utopic spatial play. |
DOI | 10.5117/9789089648471 |
Language | 英語English |
ISBN | 978-90-8964-847-1 |
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Document Type | Book chapter |
Collection | DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATION Faculty of Social Sciences |
Affiliation | University of Macau |
First Author Affilication | University of Macau |
Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Benjamin Kidder Hodges. Tourism and a Virtual Bulgaria[M]. Tourist Utopias: Offshore Islands, Enclave Spaces, and Mobile Imaginaries:Amsterdam University Press, 2017, 167–188. |
APA | Benjamin Kidder Hodges.(2017). Tourism and a Virtual Bulgaria. Tourist Utopias: Offshore Islands, Enclave Spaces, and Mobile Imaginaries, 167–188. |
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