Slow Tourism Food and Cities

<p>Slow Food began in the late 1980s as a response to the spread of fast food establishments and as a larger statement against globalization and the perceived deterioration of modern life. Since then slow practices have permeated into other areas including cities and territories and travel and tourism.</p><p>This book provides an in-depth examination of slow food tourism and cities demonstrating how these elements are intertwined with one other as part of the modern search for the good life. Part 1 locates the slow concept within the larger social setting of modernity and investigates claims made by the slow movement examining aesthetic and instrumental values inherent to it. Part 2 explores the practices and places of slow containing both conceptual and empirical chapters in Italy the birthplace of the movement. Part 3 provides a comparative perspective by examining the practices in Spain the UK Germany and Canada.</p><p>Slow Tourism Food and Cities offers key theoretical insights and alternative perspectives on the varying practices and meanings of slow from a cultural sociological and ethical perspective. It is a valuable text for students and scholars of sociology geography urban studies social movements travel and tourism and food studies.</p>