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Spectacle, tourism and the performance of everyday geopolitics

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  • Jacob C Miller

    (Northumbria University, UK)

  • Vincent Del Casino Jr

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In recent years scholars have explored the geopolitics of spectacle in exciting ways. While tourism presents a rich opportunity to think about the intersection of geopolitics and spectacle, only a small but growing number of researchers have explored this area where state-society relations unfold in complex ways. This article draws on this work and other traditions in feminist political geography and non-representational theories to explore the embodied geopolitics of a festival and its tourist landscape in the city of Chiang Mai in northern Thailand. As such, we glimpse a complex set of geopolitical relations at play in the multiple spaces of the Yii Peng Festival. A closer look at the Festival with the theoretical tools proposed here helps reveal ongoing geopolitical forces that shape its many contours, including a multiplicity of difference.

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  • Jacob C Miller & Vincent Del Casino Jr, 2020. "Spectacle, tourism and the performance of everyday geopolitics," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 38(7-8), pages 1412-1428, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envirc:v:38:y:2020:i:7-8:p:1412-1428
    DOI: 10.1177/2399654420930722
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