{"product_id":"colonial-geographies-tourist-imaginaries-and-mystical-landscapes-paperback","title":"Colonial Geographies, Tourist Imaginaries, and Mystical Landscapes - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSophia Rose Arjana\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first study to examine the intersection between imaginative geographies and mystical tourism, this book presents a detailed discussion of how tourism is linked to mystical experiences, consumer products, and wellness resorts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe many forms of colonialism have enabled governments, colonial agents, settlers, writers, and artists to reorder the world as a new space that mystifies invasion, occupation, and reterritorialization as it reestablishes a new binary of what is natural and what is unnatural. \u003ci\u003eColonial Geographies, Tourist Imaginaries, and Mystical Landscapes \u003c\/i\u003eprovides an account of this colonial practice and its influence on the creation of mystical landscapes in modern tourism. Including case studies on more familiar cases of colonialism, such as Kenya and Algeria, which are known as Europe's \"classic colonies,\" as well as settler colonies, including the United States of America, its Pacific colony in the Hawaiian Islands, and Israel, this book examines how colonial culture inserted itself into these spaces and looks to anti-colonial and indigenous voices to help us understand and counter this mystification.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis engaging and accessible work bridges cultural theory, sociology of religion, and human geography and tourism studies through an examination of film, television, theme parks, travel, and leisure activities focused on the wellness industry to illustrate how imaginative geographies function in European and American colonial and imperial projects.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSophia Rose Arjana \u003c\/strong\u003eis Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Western Kentucky University and is the author of \u003ci\u003eBuying Buddha, Selling Rumi: Orientalism and the Mystical Marketplace \u003c\/i\u003e(2020); \u003ci\u003eVeiled Superheroes: Islam, Feminism, and Pop Culture \u003c\/i\u003e(2018); \u003ci\u003ePilgrimage in Islam: Traditional and Modern Practices \u003c\/i\u003e(2017); and \u003ci\u003eMuslims in the Western Imagination \u003c\/i\u003e(2015). \u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.73 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 28, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45893034148037,"sku":"9781032422114","price":87.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/z7M3LEv1JD9781032422114.webp?v=1771919217","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/colonial-geographies-tourist-imaginaries-and-mystical-landscapes-paperback","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}