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eBook
Fire Dancers in Thailand's Tourism Industry
2024
Overview
Fire Dancers in Thailand's Tourism
Industry explores the evolution of fire
dancing from informal community jam sessions into the iconic,
tourist-oriented performances at beach parties and bars, through a
close consideration of the role of affect in the lives of fire
dancers in the ever-changing scene.
Rather than pursuing the common notion that tourism industries
are exploitative enterprises that oppress workers, Tiffany Rae
Pollock centers the perspectives of fire artists themselves, who
view the industry as simultaneously generative and destructive.
Dancers reveal how they employ affect to navigate their lives, art,
and labor in this context, showcasing how affect is not only a
force that acts on people but also is used and shaped by social
actors toward their own ends. Fire Dancers in Thailand's
Tourism Industry highlights men as affective laborers,
investigating how they manage the eroticization of their identities
and the intersections of art and labor in tourist economies.
Exploring moments of performance and everyday life, Pollock
examines how fire artists reimagine their labor, lives, and
communities in Thailand's tourism industry.
Publisher
Cornell University Press,Southeast Asia Program Publications, an imprint of Cornell University Press,Southeast Asia Program Publications
Subject
Affect (Psychology) in the performing arts
/ Affect (Psychology) in the performing arts -- Economic aspects -- Thailand
/ Affect (Psychology) in the performing arts -- Social aspects -- Thailand
/ agency
/ Fire twirling -- Social aspects -- Thailand
/ gender
/ kinship
/ Künstler
/ PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / Regional & Ethnic
/ SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies
/ SOCIAL SCIENCE / Men's Studies
/ Thailand
ISBN
9781501774935, 150177493X, 1501774956, 9781501774959, 9781501774928, 1501774921
