Book Review
Hats off to Reflexive Sociological Texts: Undressing Durban (2007)
by Shafinaaz Hassim
Edited by Rob Pattman and Sultan Khan, both lecturers in Sociology at UKZN, the collection of essays allows the reader a guided tour behind the scenes of Durban’s tourist façade in order to reach beyond the one-dimensional lure of tourist-getaway brochures.’Undressing Durban’ effectively undresses Durban as a metaphor of SA-tourism in order to uncover the theatres of challenge within the city
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April 25, 2008 at 3:18 am
This is beautifully written. Where is this book available?