Lexington Books
Pages: 122
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Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-4985-2864-1 • Hardback • February 2017 • $98.00 • (£75.00)
978-1-4985-2865-8 • eBook • February 2017 • $93.00 • (£72.00)
Susan E. Hill is PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Ethnography in the “Hidden” Budapest
Chapter One: Sketching an Illiberal Budapest
Chapter Two: Tourism in Budapest and Its Imaginaries
Chapter Three: Alt-entrepreneurship and the Meanings of Alterity
Chapter Four: Alt-guiding on the Pericapitalist Edges
Chapter Five: Touring the Post-socialist, Transcendent
Conclusion
Susan Hill offers an original take on tourism, one that is equally interested in the production of the imaginary of a place and its producer, the tour guide. Alternative Tourism in Budapest is fascinating, provocative, and entertaining, if also troubling in the depiction of how the business of ‘going off the beaten path’ can seamlessly melt into the logic of neoliberal urbanism.
— Judit Bodnár, Central European University