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Abstracts
Wood, Robert
E.
"Carribean of the East? Global Interconnections and the Southeast Asian
Cruise Industry," Asian
Journal of Social Science, 2002, 30:2, 420-440
Discusses the significance of the Southeast Asian cruise industry in
light of globalization, deterritorialization,& new linkages between
Southeast Asia and the Caribbean. Trade, environmental, &
maritime-law implications are examined, followed
by considerations of Southeast Asian cruise industry workers; the
incorporation of
Southeast Asian culture into the Caribbean cruise package; &; the
well-being & future of the industry & its Caribbean reach. The
conclusion
reiterates the importance of deterritorialization for the Southeast
Asian tourism sector.
Wood, Robert E.. "Caribbean cruise
tourism: Globalization at sea,"
Annals
of Tourism Research, 2000, 27:2 (April),
345-370
Caribbean cruise tourism provides a particularly illuminating
vantage point
for understanding the processes of globalization in the world today.
After
documenting the rapid expansion of this business, the paper explores
three
central manifestations of globalization at work in the Caribbean cruise
industry: the restructuring of the industry in the face of global
competition,
capital mobility, and labor migration; new patterns of global ethnic
recruitment
and
stratification, including their incorporation into the product marketed
to
tourists; and deterritorialization, cultural theming, and simulation.
The paper
asserts that this "globalization at sea" illustrates the
contradictions,
ambiguities, and unchartered course of contemporary globalization
processes.
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