کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
5074247 1477141 2013 8 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Borders on the move: Cross-strait tourists' material moments on 'the other side' in the midst of rapprochement between China and Taiwan
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
مرز در حال حرکت: لحظات مبهم گردشگران متقابل در "طرف دیگر" در اوج روابط بین چین و تایوان
کلمات کلیدی
مرز، اهمیت، هویت، گردشگری نزدیک چین، تایوان،
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی اقتصاد، اقتصادسنجی و امور مالی اقتصاد و اقتصادسنجی
چکیده انگلیسی


- There is limited literature on cross-strait tourists' travel experiences.
- Touristic things participate in the social and political lives of their owners.
- 'In-between places' like immigration checkpoints are charged with emotions.
- The ubiquitous border does not exist only in its physical form.
- Imagined and perceived borders are potent in (re)shaping cross-strait relations.

This paper forms part of an endeavour to elicit the cultural-geo-politics of rapprochement tourism between China and Taiwan from a grounded approach. It seeks to examine cross-strait tourists' travel experiences on 'the other side' through the lens of 'border', 'materiality' and 'identity' in an attempt to move beyond the often state-centric analyses of cross-strait ties. Discussion shows that travel documents that are close to the personal or those that are part and parcel of a touring experience are far from inert; they participate in the social and political lives of their owners, feature in bordering practices between the Chinese and the Taiwanese, and are often platforms through which identities are performed. Importantly too, as the various travel narratives reveal, the ubiquitous border certainly does not exist only in its physical form; imagined and perceived social borders are equally potent in (re)shaping cross-strait relations. A study that captures the often neglected field of comparative tourists' travel experiences is timely in the advent of a warming relationship between China and Taiwan and the unprecedented increase in tourism exchanges that ensues.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Geoforum - Volume 48, August 2013, Pages 94-101
نویسندگان
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