TY - BOOK AU - Avdikos,Vasilis TI - Local hegemonic blocs: the case of tourism in Rhodes SN - 09697764 AV - HT395 EUR PY - 2010/// CY - Los Angeles PB - sage KW - Local hegemonic blocs KW - Tourism in KW - Rhodes N2 - The paper explores the ways that a powerful local industry can be regarded as a local ideological hegemonic bloc. The concept of the local hegemonic bloc is deployed in a case study of the Rhodes tourist industry to provide a way of analysing how a specific spatial industrial concentration creates and sustains an ideological atmosphere locally, which supports the industry’s status while simultaneously legitimating exploitative actions UR - https://doi.org/10.1177/0969776410374416 ER -