The first book length study of the environmental justice
movement, tourism, and the links between race, class, and
waste.
Tourism is at once both a beloved pastime and a denigrated form of
popular culture. Romanticized for its promise of pleasure, tourism
is also potentially toxic, enabling the deadly exploitation of the
cultures and environments visited. For many decades, the
environmental justice movement has offered --toxic tours, --
non-commercial trips intended to highlight people and locales
polluted by poisonous chemicals. Out of these efforts and their
popular reception, a new understanding of democratic participation
in
environmental decision-making has begun to arise. Phaedra C.
Pezzullo examines these tours as a tactic of resistance and for
their potential in reducing the cultural and physical distance
between hosts and visitors.
Pezzullo begins by establishing the ambiguous roles tourism and
the toxic have played in the U.S. cultural imagination since the
mid-20th century in a range of spheres, including Hollywood films,
women's magazines, comic books, and scholarly writings. Next,
drawing on participant observation, interviews, documentaries, and
secondary accounts in popular media, she identifies and examines a
range of tourist performances enabled by toxic tours. Extended
illustrations of the racial, class, and gender politics involved
include Louisiana's --Cancer Alley, -- California's San Francisco
Bay Area, and the Mexican border town of Matamoros. Weaving
together social critiques of tourism and community responses to
toxic chemicals, this critical, rhetorical, and cultural analysis
brings into focus the tragedy of ongoing patterns of toxification
and our assumptions about travel, democracy, and pollution.
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