Consuming geopolitics and feeling maritime territoriality: The case of China's patriotic tourism in the South China Sea |
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Institution: | 1. Institute of Sustainability Governance (INSUGO), Leuphana University Lüneburg, Universitätsallee1, D-21335, Lüneburg, Germany;2. Sussex Energy Group, Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex Business School, United Kingdom;3. Integrated Research on Energy, Environment and Society | IREES, Faculty of Science and Engineering (FSE), University of Groningen, Energy Academy Building, Nijenborgh 6, 9747 AG Groningen, the Netherlands;4. Center for the Study of Democracy, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Universitätsallee 1, D-21335, Lüneburg, Germany;5. Institute of Social Sciences, Hildesheim University, Universitätsplatz 1, 31141 Hildesheim, Germany;1. Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Tel Aviv University, Gordon Faculty of Social Sciences, Tel Aviv University, P.O.B. 39040, Tel Aviv, 69978, Israel;2. Sociology of Education, The Seymour Fox School of Education the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem, 9190501, Israel |
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Abstract: | This paper develops the concept of territorial socialisation and explores the process and effect of tourism in China's maritime territorialisation of the South China Sea. The research demonstrates the mutual constitution of tourism and territorialisation and suggests that tourism is playing an increasingly important role in everyday contexts to socialise individuals into national-territorial thinking. However, tourism alone does not decidedly stoke strong territorial nationalism, instead it produces uneven bordering or territorialisation effects at the personal level. Tourism practices, tourist agency, and the distinct wet ontology of the sea complicate the state maritime territorialisation process. The research also shows that the Chinese tourists are pragmatic, calculative geopolitical actors. Their geopolitical experiences through tourism are connected to, and embedded in, the broad geopolitical realities of China's rising and unjust international orders, while informed by official territorial rhetoric and traditional political culture. |
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Keywords: | Tourism Geopolitics Territorial socialisation South China Sea China |
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