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Tourism and a Virtual Bulgaria
Benjamin Kidder Hodges
2017
Source PublicationTourist Utopias: Offshore Islands, Enclave Spaces, and Mobile Imaginaries
Author of SourceTim Simpson
PublisherAmsterdam University Press
Pages167–188
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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.

DOI10.5117/9789089648471
Language英語English
ISBN978-90-8964-847-1
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CollectionDEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATION
Faculty of Social Sciences
AffiliationUniversity of Macau
First Author AffilicationUniversity of Macau
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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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