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Tourism, Urbanization, and the Evolving Periphery of the European Union

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  1. Max Holleran

    1. School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

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  • Develops a unique method to establish an analytically precise connection between the making of European identity and the administrative apparatus of the European Union.

  • Adds new perspective by showing that the process of European enlargement does not end when new member states are added, but rather that the process of integrating newly added states raises specific new challenges.

  • Offer an original contribution to the body of literature connecting the Southern European democratic transitions to those of post-socialist East-Central Europe.

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Max Holleran
    Pages 1-12

  3. Tourism and Europe’s Shifting Periphery: Post-Franco Spain and Post-Socialist Bulgaria

    • Max Holleran
    Pages 13-43

  4. Coasts of Aspiration: Climbing the Tourism ‘Ladder’

    • Max Holleran
    Pages 45-81

  5. Leisure Spaces and the Aesthetics of Europe

    • Max Holleran
    Pages 83-108

  6. Conclusion: Returning to Peripherality: The Social Experience of Urban Crisis

    • Max Holleran
    Pages 109-119

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 121-124
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About this book

This book explores travel, tourism, and urban development at the edges of Europe from the 1970s until the present. It compares tourism-spurred urban growth in Spain and Bulgaria, showing how development in Southern Europe after the fall of dictatorships provided a model for integrating post-socialist Europe in the 1990s. It analyzes the economic, cultural, and political dimensions of tourist economies, showing how they aligned with major European Union integration goals and were supported with EU development funds. It also chronicles the social and environmental costs of mass tourism where over-development has despoiled beachfronts and promoted low paying service jobs, reinforcing regional divisions in Europe between those who host and those who visit. Ultimately, it argues that while mass tourism is touted as a viable economic solution to EU inequality, it can potentially exacerbate disparities between core and peripheral zones, creating new and troubling forms of regional polarization.

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“This original and timely book insists that we cannot see the crisis of the EU-modernization project only by looking at its institutional core. Emerging from a geographically ambitious project that explored the connections in cultures of leisure and tourism between southern and eastern Europe, this book charts the rise and fall of hopes of the development and convergence as a transnational and comparative story as seen from the continent’s peripheries.” (James Mark, Professor of History, University of Exeter, UK)

Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

    Max Holleran

About the author

Max Holleran is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Melbourne. He has written about housing, architectural aesthetics, post-socialist urban planning, and European Union integration for anthropology, sociology, and history journals as well as for Boston Review, Dissent, Los Angeles Review of Books, New Republic, Slate, and the Times Literary Supplement.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Tourism, Urbanization, and the Evolving Periphery of the European Union

  • Authors: Max Holleran

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0218-7

  • Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-0217-0Published: 12 November 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-0218-7Published: 25 October 2019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 124

  • Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Urban Studies/Sociology, Human Geography

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