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摘要
Rethinking Tim Edensor's analytical framework of 'imagined geographies', this article attempts to bring the 'actor' into the analysis of tourism imaginaries. It argues that tourism imaginaries are not just something in an individual's mind but are embodied in actors' practices and are socially shared or competitive with each other. This article focuses its analysis on actors and their linkages to multiple tourism imaginaries encountered on a single tourist site. It analyzes the case of the Mogao Caves at Dunhuang in China to illustrate the multiplicity of tourism imaginaries on a single site that confronts and negotiates with each other. It notices three symbolic spaces as the reference of meaning of the Mogao Caves: art space, national space, and religious space. Each may engage with different tourism imaginaries and practices. It also discusses the linkages between an institutional actor, the Dunhuang Academy, and its imaginaries to suggest that the actor places its understanding and practices in a network of meaning composed of various imaginaries which may refer to different imagined geographies.
- 出版日期2011
- 单位清华大学
