Tourism, land, and landscape in Ireland: the commodification of culture
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Book Reviews 103 impacts on the relationship of the researcher with their fieldsite and field data. I look forward to reading more of Sather-Wagstaff’s academic assemblages on tourism and commemoration. Jonathan Skinner University of Roehampton jonathan.skinner@roehampton.ac.uk © 2015, Jonathan Skinner http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14766825.2015.1013262 Tourism, land, and landscape in Ireland: the commodification of culture, by Kevin J. James, London, Routledge, 2014, 208 pp., $140.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-415-71355-9 Understanding past narratives and constructions of places, cultures and landscapes through travel writing offers perceptive insight into the making and development of destinations. Moreover, memory and how it has been transcribed and secured through texts allows us to understand not only how particular destinations in nations are remembered, but how travel and tourism has led to cultural commodification and place stereotypes. Kevin J. James takes us through the past in his book Tourism, land, and landscape in Ireland: The commodification of culture. This book contributes to a number of books recently pub- lished as part of the Routledge research in travel writing series, with other books in the col- lection focusing on, for example, Africa, Latin America, the south of Italy, framed around a range of conceptual approaches including ethics, nationalism, gender, colonialism and the