Clinics of Oblivion: Makeover Culture and Cosmetic Surgery

Jones, MR

Clinics of Oblivion: Makeover Culture and Cosmetic Surgery

Jones, MR

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Publisher:: UTSePress, Sydney
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Portal Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, 2011, 8 (2)
Issue Date:: 2011-01

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dc.contributor.author	Jones, MR	en_US
dc.date.issued	2011-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Portal Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, 2011, 8 (2)	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1449-2490	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/17400
dc.description.abstract	This paper examines cosmetic surgery tourism, arguing that it can be meaningfully analysed as part of makeover culture. It shows that while cosmetic surgery tourism sits at a junction of cosmetic surgery and medical tourism, it also has much in common with contemporary tourism practices. The paper posits cosmetic surgery tourism not only as an economic and globalised phenomenon but also as a set of practices that are experienced, and that take place on the body (see also Cook, 2010; Bell et al. 2011). Chris Rojeks work on contemporary tourist practices is deployed in order to argue that the cosmetic surgery tourists body is itself the `site to be visited and discovered; it is also the souvenir that is brought home. When body and site are brought together in cosmetic surgery tourism, they form a potent nexus that is unique to a contemporary moment tied up with globalisation and consumption, where both identity and self-transformation are managed through the body.	en_US
dc.publisher	UTSePress, Sydney	en_US
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dc.title	Clinics of Oblivion: Makeover Culture and Cosmetic Surgery	en_US
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Abstract:

This paper examines cosmetic surgery tourism, arguing that it can be meaningfully analysed as part of makeover culture. It shows that while cosmetic surgery tourism sits at a junction of cosmetic surgery and medical tourism, it also has much in common with contemporary tourism practices. The paper posits cosmetic surgery tourism not only as an economic and globalised phenomenon but also as a set of practices that are experienced, and that take place on the body (see also Cook, 2010; Bell et al. 2011). Chris Rojeks work on contemporary tourist practices is deployed in order to argue that the cosmetic surgery tourists body is itself the `site to be visited and discovered; it is also the souvenir that is brought home. When body and site are brought together in cosmetic surgery tourism, they form a potent nexus that is unique to a contemporary moment tied up with globalisation and consumption, where both identity and self-transformation are managed through the body.

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