Seeing selves and others: rethinking 'the tourist gaze' of township tourism as inter-subjectivity in Cape Town, South Africa
Master Thesis
2011
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This dissertation is intended as an "ethnography of the particular" that might demonstrate the inter-subjectivity of 'hosts' and 'guests' subject-positions so often presented as static and oppositional of township tourism in Cape Town, South Africa. The majority of research engages in a continuing debate that emphasizes either the 'hosts' or 'guests' of a global tourism industry as either the victims or profiteers of exploitation, or innovative and entrepreneurial agents of change. I attempt is to look for the transformative potentials in the ambiguities and ambivalences surrounding township tourism, as an industry representing evidence of further penetration by neoliberalism in sub-Saharan Africa, that does not pardon the proclivities of late capitalism to widen the gaps of social stratification, but rather questions its determinism in shaping subjectivities.
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Dickson, J. 2011. Seeing selves and others: rethinking 'the tourist gaze' of township tourism as inter-subjectivity in Cape Town, South Africa. University of Cape Town.