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Mahoney, I. 
ORCID: 0000-0003-0313-3418 and Collins, V.E.,
2020.
The capitalist voyeur: commodification, consumption and the spectacle of the cruise.
Leisure Studies, 39 (2), pp. 280-293.
ISSN 0261-4367
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Abstract
This article explores the pervasive forms of consumerism which underpin the cruise experience. Drawing upon Baudrillard, among others, we examine the process of ‘magical thinking’ utilised by passengers to mask the hidden social, economic, environmental, and cultural harms that surround the international cruise industry and which in turn serves to reinforce inequalities and structural harms between the Global North and South, particularly in developing and ‘exotic’ destinations. In doing so we aim to unpack the construction of leisure cruising in contemporary western society, arguing that it has become the epitome of the normalisation of banal capitalist consumption which underpins the current global neoliberal capitalist system.
| Item Type: | Journal article | ||||||
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| Publication Title: | Leisure Studies | ||||||
| Creators: | Mahoney, I. and Collins, V.E. | ||||||
| Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||
| Date: | 2020 | ||||||
| Volume: | 39 | ||||||
| Number: | 2 | ||||||
| ISSN: | 0261-4367 | ||||||
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| Divisions: | Schools > Nottingham Business School | ||||||
| Record created by: | Jonathan Gallacher | ||||||
| Date Added: | 30 Sep 2019 08:56 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 22 Jul 2021 09:37 | ||||||
| URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/37864 |
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