The Accelerated Sublime: Landscape, Tourism, and Identity

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Over the past two hundred years, transportation technology has enabled tourists to visit nearly any place on the entire globe. Nations compete for tourists by holding out promises of previously unattainable excitement. As a result, locations and landscapes once considered sublime are becoming increasingly commodified into both "products" and elements of national identity constructs. This study combines historical narrative with an examination of this consumption of landscape and the technologies that both shape and reflect it.

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CLAUDIA BELL is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Her previous books, concerning issues of local and national identity in New Zealand, include Sociology of Everyday Life in New Zealand, Community Issues in New Zealand, and, with John Lyall, Inventing New Zealand: Putting Our Town on the Map. JOHN LYALL is an artist and Head of Sculpture at UNITEC in Auckland, New Zealand, who exhibits in the genres of installation, photography, performance, and sound. He is the co-author, with Claudia Bell, of Inventing New Zealand: Putting Our Town on the Map.