1,618
Views
13
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Articles

The ‘souvenirization' and ‘touristification' of material culture in Thailand – mutual constructions of ‘otherness' in the tourism and souvenir industries

Pages 279-293 | Received 11 Jul 2018, Accepted 18 Apr 2019, Published online: 10 May 2019

References

  • Çakmak, E., Lie, R., & McCabe, S. (2018). Reframing informal tourism entrepreneurial practices: Capital and field relations structuring the informal economy of Chiang Mai. Annals of Tourism Research, 72, 37–47. doi: 10.1016/j.annals.2018.06.003
  • Chan, Y. W. (2006). Coming of age of the Chinese tourists: The emergence of non Western tourism and host-guest interactions in Vietnam’s border tourism. Tourist Studies, 6(3), 187–213. doi: 10.1177/1468797607076671
  • Cohen, E. (2000). The commercialized crafts of Thailand – Hill tribes and lowland villages. Collected articles. Richmond: Curzon.
  • Cohen, E. (2014). The permutations of Thai tourism. In K. Husa, A. Trupp, & H. Wohlschlägl (Eds.), Southeast Asian mobility transitions: Issues and trends in migration and tourism (Abhandlungen zur Geographie und Regionalforschung) (Vol. 19, pp. 237–261). Vienna: Copydruck KG.
  • Cohen, E. (2016). Ethnic tourism in mainland Southeast Asia: The state of the art. Tourism Recreation Research, 41(3), 232–245. doi: 10.1080/02508281.2016.1188485
  • Cohen, E., & Cohen, S. (2012). Current sociological theories and issues in tourism. Annals of Tourism Research, 39(4), 2177–2202. doi: 10.1016/j.annals.2012.07.009
  • Collins-Kreiner, N., & Zins, Y. (2011). Tourists and souvenirs: changes through time, space and mening. Journal of Heritage Tourism, 6(1), 17–27. doi: 10.1080/1743873X.2010.515312
  • Comaroff, J. L., & Comaroff, J. (2009). Ethnicity, Inc. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
  • Evrard, O., & Leepreecha, P. (2009). Monks, monarchs and mountain folks – domestic tourism and internal colonialism in Northern Thailand. Critique of Anthropology, 29(3), 300–323. doi: 10.1177/0308275X09104657
  • Fuengfusakul, A. (2008). Making sense of place: A case study of vendors and small entrepreneurs in the Chiang Mai Night Bazaar. In S. Tanabe (Ed.), Imagining communities in Thailand – ethnographic Approaches (pp. 107–134). Chiang Mai: Mekong Press.
  • Hume, D. L. (2014). Tourism art and souvenirs: The material culture of tourism. New York: Routledge.
  • Husa, L. (2015). The commodification of handicrafs in Southeast Asia – a social and economic historical analysis. SDU Research Journal Humanities and Social Sciences, 11(January-December), 87–98.
  • Khongthawisak, P. (2554). อ่าข่าไนท์บาซาร์ – การค้ากับความเป็นชาติพันธุ์. คณะสังคมศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยเชียงใหม่, เชียงใหม่. [=(2010). Akha in the Night Bazaar – Trade and the Existence of Ethnicity. Research Institute for Sociology Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai].
  • King, V. (2009). Anthropology and tourism in Southeast Asia: Comparative studies, cultural differentiation and agency. In M. Hitchcock, V. T. King, & M. Parnwell (Eds.), Tourism in Southeast Asia – Challenges and new directions (pp. 43–68). Copenhagen: NIAS Press.
  • Kuankham, S. (2017). Cultural resources management of the street culture: a study promoting and preserving on crafts in the Night Walking Street Market in Chiang Mai Province, Thailand. 13th International Conference on Thai Studies – Globalized Thailand? Connectivity and Conundrums of Thai Studies,15–18 July 2017, Chiang Mai, Thailand.
  • Larsen, J., & Urry, J. (2011). Gazing and performing. Environment and Planing D: Society and Space, 29, 1110–1125. doi: 10.1068/d21410
  • Leepreecha, P. (2014). Tourism in mountainous communities: The politics of ethnic tourism in Northern Thailand. In K. Husa, A. Trupp, & H. Wohlschlägl (Eds.), Southeast Asian mobility transitions: Issues and trends in migration and tourism (Abhandlungen zur Geographie und Regionalforschung) (Vol. 19, pp. 329–345). Vienna: Copydruck KG.
  • MacCannell, D. (1973). Staged authenticity: Arrangements of social space in tourist settings. American Journal of Sociology, 79(3), 589–603. doi: 10.1086/225585
  • MacLeod, N. (2006). Cultural tourism: Aspects of authenticity and commodification. In M. Smith & M. Robinson (Eds.), Cultural tourism in a changing world: Politics, participation and (re)presentation (pp. 177–190). Clevedon: Channel View Publications.
  • Manndorff, H. (1967). The Hill Tribe program of the Public Welfare Department, Ministry of Interior, Thailand: Research and socio-economic development. In P. Kunstadter (Ed.), Southeast Asian Tribes, minorities and nations (Vol. 2, pp. 525–552). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
  • Maoz, D. (2006). The mutual gaze. Annals of Tourism Research, 33(1), 221–239. doi: 10.1016/j.annals.2005.10.010
  • Mayring, P. (2010). Qualitative Inhaltsanalyse: Grundlagen und Techniken. Weinheim: Beltz.
  • Renard, R. D. (2001). Opium reduction in Thailand 1970-2000 – a thirty-year journey. Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books. UNDPC.
  • Somsirivarangkool, K. (2016). Dynamica of Traditional Laveue Marriage. The 13th Asia Pacific Sociological Association (APSA) Conference ‘Globalization, Mobility and Borders: Challenges and Opportunities in the Asia-Pacific’, 24–25 September 2016, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
  • Swanson, K. K., & Timothy, D. J. (2012). Souvenirs: Icons of meaning, commercialization and commoditization. Tourism Management, 33(3), 489–499. doi: 10.1016/j.tourman.2011.10.007
  • Trupp, A. (2014). Migrating into tourist business. Agency and embeddedness of ethnic minority street vendors in Thailand (Dissertation thesis). University of Vienna, Vienna.
  • Trupp, A. (2017). Migration, micro-business and tourism in Thailand. Highlanders in the city. London: Routledge.
  • Urry, J., & Larsen, J. (2011). The tourist gaze 3.0. Los Angeles, CA: Sage.
  • Wilkins, H. (2010). Souvenirs: What and why we buy. Journal of Travel Research, 50(3), 239–247. doi: 10.1177/0047287510362782
  • Wilkins, H. (2013). Souvenirs and self-identity. In J. Cave, L. Jolliffe, & T. Baum (Eds.), Tourism and souvenirs – glocal perspectives from the margins (pp. 40–48). Bristol: Channel View Publications.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.