In this interdisciplinary study Lukas Breitwieser examines the development of tourism in Namibia based on a relational spatial concept. Based on Foucault’s concept of heterotopia, he analyses the homogenizing effect of technology, which opens up touristic spaces infrastructurally and conveys safety. At the same time, this leads to a symbolic-cultural differentiation, which turns specific spaces into unique tourist attractions.

Starting with the early tourism in the 1920s right up to the present, Breitwieser evaluates different types of sources and proves that there is an...