Transnational Tourism Experiences at Gallipoli

by Jim McKay

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9811300259
• ISBN13: 9789811300257
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 185 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"