1st Edition
Tourism and the Globalization of Emotions The Intimate Economy of Tango
Part I: Introduction 1. Intimate Voyages in Global Times Part II: Values in Argentine Tango Dancing 2. The Production of Belief 3. An Intimate Dance Economy 4. Voyages Out of the Ordinary 5. Trading Tango Part III: Negotiating Tango Tourism 6. Tourists and Other Tourists 7. Commercialized Tango Intimacy 8. Sex, Romance and Tango 9. Dancing Geographies Part IV: Conclusion 10. Tango Tourism: Between Market Adaption and Cultural Resistance. Appendix: Notes from a Dancing Researcher.
Biography
Maria Törnqvist is a sociologist conducting ethnographic research on tango dancing. She has also published on Swedish gender equality politics and has written a prize-winning teaching book in feminist theory (with Katharina Tollin). For the 2006 academic year she was a visiting scholar at the Sociology department at UC Berkeley. She is currently a lecturer at the Department of Education, Uppsala University.
