Transnational Tourism Experiences at Gallipoli

This book offers a fresh account of the Anzac myth and the bittersweet emotional experience of Gallipoli tourists. Challenging the straightforward view of the Anzac obsession as a kind of nationalistic military Halloween, it shows how transnational developments in tourism and commemoration have created the conditions for a complex, dissonant emotional experience of sadness, humility, anger, pride and empathy among Anzac tourists. Drawing on the in-depth testimonies of travellers from Australia and New Zealand, McKay shines a new and more complex light on the history and cultural politics of the Anzac myth. As well as making a ground breaking, empirically-based intervention into the culture wars, this book offers new insights into the global memory boom and transnational developments in backpacker tourism, sports tourism and “dark” or “dissonant” tourism.

• | Author: Jim McKay
• | Publisher: Springer
• | Publication Date: Jun 04, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 185 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 9811300259
• | ISBN-13: 9789811300257