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Tourism has become one of the most powerful forces organizing the
predatory geographies of late capitalism. It creates entangled
futures of exploitation and dependence, extracting resources and
labor, and eclipsing other ways of doing, living, and imagining
life. And yet, tourism also creates jobs, encourages infrastructure
development, and in many places inspires the only possibility of
hope and well-being. Stuck with Tourism explores the ambivalent
nature of tourism by drawing on ethnographic evidence from the
Mexican Yucatan Peninsula, a region voraciously transformed by
tourism development over the past forty years. Contrasting labor
and lived experiences at the beach resorts of Cancun, protected
natural enclaves along the Gulf coast, historical buildings of the
colonial past, and maquilas for souvenir production in the Maya
heartland, this book explores the moral, political, ecological, and
everyday dilemmas that emerge when, as Yucatan's inhabitants put
it, people get stuck in tourism's grip.
Tourism has become one of the most powerful forces organizing the
predatory geographies of late capitalism. It creates entangled
futures of exploitation and dependence, extracting resources and
labor, and eclipsing other ways of doing, living, and imagining
life. And yet, tourism also creates jobs, encourages infrastructure
development, and in many places inspires the only possibility of
hope and well-being. Stuck with Tourism explores the ambivalent
nature of tourism by drawing on ethnographic evidence from the
Mexican Yucatan Peninsula, a region voraciously transformed by
tourism development over the past forty years. Contrasting labor
and lived experiences at the beach resorts of Cancun, protected
natural enclaves along the Gulf coast, historical buildings of the
colonial past, and maquilas for souvenir production in the Maya
heartland, this book explores the moral, political, ecological, and
everyday dilemmas that emerge when, as Yucatan's inhabitants put
it, people get stuck in tourism's grip.
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