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Index
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures and tables
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
1 Urban tourism and its discontents: an introduction
2 No conflict? Discourses and management of tourism-related tensions in Paris
3 The selling (out) of Berlin and the de- and re-politicization of urban tourism in Europe’s ‘Capital of Cool’
4 Touristification and awakening civil society in post-socialist Prague
5 Density wars in Silicon Beach: the struggle to mix new spaces for toil, stay and play in Santa Monica, California
6 Contesting China’s tourism wave: identity politics, protest and the rise of the Hongkonger city state movement
7 From San Francisco’s ‘Tech Boom 2.0’ to Valparaíso’s UNESCO World Heritage Site: resistance to tourism gentrification from a comparative political perspective
8 Tourism provision as protest in ‘post-conflict’ Belfast
9 The No Grandi Navi campaign: protests against cruise tourism in Venice
10 Favela tourism: negotiating visitors, socio-economic benefits, image and representation in pre-Olympics Rio de Janeiro
11 Politics as early as possible: democratizing the Olympics by contesting Olympic bids
12 Attracting international tourism through mega-events and the birth of a conflict culture in Belo Horizonte
13 The right to Gaudí: what can we learn from the commoning of Park Güell, Barcelona?
14 Of artisans, antique dealers and ambulant vendors: culturally stratified conflicts in Buenos Aires’ historic centre
15 The abrupt rise (and fall) of creative entrepreneurs: socio-economic change, the visitor economy and social conflict in a traditional neighbourhood of Shanghai
16 The living versus the dead in Singapore: contesting the authoritarian tourist city
17 ‘Fantasies of antithesis’: assessing Hamburg’s Gängeviertel as a tourist attraction
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