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This comprehensive book focuses on how the COVID-19 pandemic is
transforming travel and tourism, globally. Despite the devastation
caused by COVID-19, authors argue that within the ongoing crisis,
there is also an opportunity to positively transform the tourism
sector in ways that contribute to a more hopeful future for tourism
practitioners, tourists and host communities. As the world emerges
from the shadow of COVID-19 there will not be a return to the
"normal". Rather, the volume shares a vision of global
transformation that is driven at least in part by the changing ways
people in the post-COVID-19 era may travel and encounter each other
and their environments. Individual chapters explore topics such as:
regenerative economies, transformational travel, critical
perspectives on pandemics and tourism, sustainable development and
resilience post-COVID-19, re-discovering and re-localising tourism,
global (im)mobilities, transforming tourism management, as well as
new value systems for travel and tourism including the chance to
strengthen social equity and social justice as tourism returns
after COVID-19. In this edited volume, a series of senior and
emerging scholars engage with debates on how to best contribute to
more substantial, meaningful, and positive planetary shifts within
the tourism industry. The chapters in this book were originally
published as a special issue of the journal Tourism Geographies.
Anthropocene Ecologies brings political ecology and tourism studies
to bear on the Anthropocene. Through a collective examination of
political ecologies of the Anthropocene by leading scholars in
anthropology, geography and tourism studies, the book addresses
critical themes of gender, health, conservation, agriculture,
climate change, disaster, coastal marine management and
sustainability. Each chapter theoretically and empirically unravels
entanglements of tourism, nature and imagination to expose the
political-ecological drivers of the Anthropocene as a material and
symbolic force and its deepening integration with tourism. Grounded
in ethnographic and qualitative research, the volume is
interdisciplinary in scope, yet linked in its shared focus on the
political threat as well as the social potential of the
Anthropocene and its imaginaries. This collection contributes to
emerging scholarship on tourism, sustainability and global
environmental change in the current geological epoch. Anthropocene
Ecologies will be of great interest to political ecology focused
scholars of tourism, socio-environmental change and the
Anthropocene. The chapters were originally published as a special
issue in the Journal of Sustainable Tourism.
This book considers what the transition into the Asian Century
means for some of the most urgent issues in the world today, such
as sustainable development, human rights, gender equality, and
environmental change. The book critiques Anglo-Western centrism in
tourism theory and calls on tourism scholars to make radical shifts
toward more inclusive epistemology and praxis. From the British
Century of the 1800s to the American Century of the 1900s to the
contemporary Asian Century, tourism geographies are deeply
entangled in broader shifts in geopolitical power. In the shadow of
the COVID-19 pandemic, the significance of shifts in tourism
geographies and the themes addressed in this volume are more urgent
than ever. That the world faces increasing turmoil is abundantly
clear. Yet, amidst the disruption to the everyday, it is hope and
compassion, but also political-economic restructuring that is
needed to reset the tourism industry in more sustainable,
equitable, and ethical directions. In no uncertain terms, the
pandemic has forever changed the tourism industry as the world once
knew it. This book, therefore, sets out to collectively build on
the momentum of the inclusive scholarship that Critical Tourism
Studies-Asia Pacific is renowned for, while also asking readers to
pause and reflect on the possibilities and challenges of tourism in
a post-pandemic Asian Century. The chapters in this book were
originally published as a special issue of the journal, Tourism
Geographies.
This comprehensive book focuses on how the COVID-19 pandemic is
transforming travel and tourism, globally. Despite the devastation
caused by COVID-19, authors argue that within the ongoing crisis,
there is also an opportunity to positively transform the tourism
sector in ways that contribute to a more hopeful future for tourism
practitioners, tourists and host communities. As the world emerges
from the shadow of COVID-19 there will not be a return to the
"normal". Rather, the volume shares a vision of global
transformation that is driven at least in part by the changing ways
people in the post-COVID-19 era may travel and encounter each other
and their environments. Individual chapters explore topics such as:
regenerative economies, transformational travel, critical
perspectives on pandemics and tourism, sustainable development and
resilience post-COVID-19, re-discovering and re-localising tourism,
global (im)mobilities, transforming tourism management, as well as
new value systems for travel and tourism including the chance to
strengthen social equity and social justice as tourism returns
after COVID-19. In this edited volume, a series of senior and
emerging scholars engage with debates on how to best contribute to
more substantial, meaningful, and positive planetary shifts within
the tourism industry. The chapters in this book were originally
published as a special issue of the journal Tourism Geographies.
Crossing disciplinary and chronological boundaries, Volunteer
Tourism: Popular Humanitarianism in Neoliberal Times is the first
full-length treatment of volunteer tourism from a longitudinal
ethnographic perspective. Volunteer tourism, one of the fastest
growing niche tourism markets in the world, is a type of tourism in
which tourists pay to participate in conservation, humanitarian or
development oriented projects. Volunteer Tourism is a comprehensive
and comparative study of the perspectives of Thai host community
members, NGO practitioners and international volunteer tourists.
The book thus shines an ethnographic lens onto the complexities and
contradictions of the volunteer tourism experience in northern
Thailand. Drawing on cross-disciplinary perspectives in geography
and anthropology as well as development, tourism and cultural
studies, Volunteer Tourism illustrates how a focus on
sentimentality in the volunteer tourism encounter obscures the
structural inequalities on which the experience is based. Such a
focus situates volunteer tourism within the commodification and
sentimentalization of development and global justice agendas, which
hail the new moral consumer and reframe questions of structural
inequality as questions of individual morality. As a result, albeit
inadvertently, the practice of volunteer tourism serves the
continued expansion of the cultural logics and economic practices
of neoliberalism.
Why has political ecology been assigned so little attention in
tourism studies, despite its broad and critical interrogation of
environment and politics? As the first full-length treatment of a
political ecology of tourism, the collection addresses this lacuna
and calls for the further establishment of this emerging
interdisciplinary subfield. Drawing on recent trends in geography,
anthropology, and environmental and tourism studies, Political
Ecology of Tourism: Communities, Power and the Environment employs
a political ecology approach to the analysis of tourism through
three interrelated themes: Communities and Power, Conservation and
Control, and Development and Conflict. While geographically broad
in scope-with chapters that span Central and South America to
Africa, and South, Southeast, and East Asia to Europe and
Greenland-the collection illustrates how tourism-related
environmental challenges are shared across prodigious geographical
distances, while also attending to the nuanced ways they
materialize in local contexts and therefore demand the historically
situated, place-based and multi-scalar approach of political
ecology. This collection advances our understanding of the role of
political, economic and environmental concerns in tourism practice.
It offers readers a political ecology framework from which to
address tourism-related issues and themes such as development,
identity politics, environmental subjectivities, environmental
degradation, land and resources conflict, and indigenous ecologies.
Finally, the collection is bookended by a pair of essays from two
of the most distinguished scholars working in the subfield:
Rosaleen Duffy (foreword) and James Igoe (afterword). This
collection will be valuable reading for scholars and practitioners
alike who share a critical interest in the intersection of tourism,
politics and the environment
Events from a mobilities perspective attend to moments in which
individual networks coalesce in place but are not isolated in their
performance as they often foster far-reaching and mobile networks
of community. In so doing, individuals travel from varying
distances to participate in localized performances. However, events
themselves are also mobile, and events affect mobility. Mobile
events serve as contexts that provide meanings and purpose
articulated in relation to, and as, a series of other social
actions. They further highlight the role of the body and embodied
practices in the performance of events. Building on Sheller and
Urry's (2004) seminal work Tourism Mobilities, the purpose of this
book is to further develop event studies research within mobilities
studies so as to challenge the limitations that dichotomous
understandings of home/away, work/leisure, and host/guest play.
Simply put, events are always already place-based and political in
the sense that they can both inspire mobility as well as lead to
various immobilities for different social groups. The title
addresses everyday as well as extraordinary events, shining an
empirical and theoretical lens onto the political, economic and
social role of events in numerous geographic and cultural contexts.
It stretches across academic disciplines and fields of study to
illustrate the advantages of a mobilities multi-disciplinary
conversation. This groundbreaking volume is the first to offer a
conceptualization and theorization of event mobilities. It will
serve as a valuable resource and reference for event, tourism and
leisure studies students and scholars interested in exploring the
ways the everyday and the extraordinary interlace.
Crossing disciplinary and chronological boundaries, Volunteer
Tourism: Popular Humanitarianism in Neoliberal Times is the first
full-length treatment of volunteer tourism from a longitudinal
ethnographic perspective. Volunteer tourism, one of the fastest
growing niche tourism markets in the world, is a type of tourism in
which tourists pay to participate in conservation, humanitarian or
development oriented projects. Volunteer Tourism is a comprehensive
and comparative study of the perspectives of Thai host community
members, NGO practitioners and international volunteer tourists.
The book thus shines an ethnographic lens onto the complexities and
contradictions of the volunteer tourism experience in northern
Thailand. Drawing on cross-disciplinary perspectives in geography
and anthropology as well as development, tourism and cultural
studies, Volunteer Tourism illustrates how a focus on
sentimentality in the volunteer tourism encounter obscures the
structural inequalities on which the experience is based. Such a
focus situates volunteer tourism within the commodification and
sentimentalization of development and global justice agendas, which
hail the new moral consumer and reframe questions of structural
inequality as questions of individual morality. As a result, albeit
inadvertently, the practice of volunteer tourism serves the
continued expansion of the cultural logics and economic practices
of neoliberalism.
This book reframes tourism, as well as leisure, within mobilities
studies to challenge the limitations that dichotomous
understandings of home/away, work/leisure, and host/guest bring. A
mobilities approach to tourism and leisure encourages us to think
beyond the mobilities of tourists to ways in which tourism and
leisure experiences bring other mobilities into sync, or disorder,
and as a result re-conceptualizes social theory. The proposed
anthology stretches across academic disciplines and fields of study
to illustrate the advantages of multi-disciplinary conversation
and, in so doing, it challenges how we approach studies of
movement-based phenomena and the concept of scale. Part One
examines the ways in which mobility informs and is informed by
leisure, from everyday practices to leisure-inspired mobile
lifestyles. Part Two investigates individuals and communities that
become entrepreneurial in the face of changing tourism contexts and
reflects on the performance of work through multiple mobilities.
Part Three turns to issues of development, with attention to the
cultural politics that frame development encounters in the context
of tourism. The varied ways that people move into and out of
development projects is mediated by geopolitical discourses hat can
both challenge and perpetuate geographic imaginations of tourism
destinations.
Anthropocene Ecologies brings political ecology and tourism studies
to bear on the Anthropocene. Through a collective examination of
political ecologies of the Anthropocene by leading scholars in
anthropology, geography and tourism studies, the book addresses
critical themes of gender, health, conservation, agriculture,
climate change, disaster, coastal marine management and
sustainability. Each chapter theoretically and empirically unravels
entanglements of tourism, nature and imagination to expose the
political-ecological drivers of the Anthropocene as a material and
symbolic force and its deepening integration with tourism. Grounded
in ethnographic and qualitative research, the volume is
interdisciplinary in scope, yet linked in its shared focus on the
political threat as well as the social potential of the
Anthropocene and its imaginaries. This collection contributes to
emerging scholarship on tourism, sustainability and global
environmental change in the current geological epoch. Anthropocene
Ecologies will be of great interest to political ecology focused
scholars of tourism, socio-environmental change and the
Anthropocene. The chapters were originally published as a special
issue in the Journal of Sustainable Tourism.
This first full length treatment of the role of morality in tourism
examines how the tourism encounter is also fundamentally a moral
encounter. Drawing upon interdisciplinary perspectives, leading and
new authors in the field address topics that range from volunteer
tourism to fertility tourism to reveal new insights into the ways
tourism encounters are implicated in, and contribute to, broader
moral reconfigurations in Western and non-Western contexts.
Illustrating the role of power and power relations in tourism
encounters within different political, economic, environmental and
cultural contexts, the authors in this anthology analyse,
theoretically and empirically, the implications of the privileging
of some moralities at the expense of others. Key themes include the
moral consumption of tourism experiences, embodiment in tourism
encounters, environmental moralities as well as methodological
aspects of morality in tourism research. Crossing disciplinary and
chronological boundaries, Moral Encounters in Tourism provides a
much-anticipated overview of this new interdisciplinary terrain and
offers possible routes for new research on the intersection of
morality and tourism studies.
This first full length treatment of the role of morality in tourism
examines how the tourism encounter is also fundamentally a moral
encounter. Drawing upon interdisciplinary perspectives, leading and
new authors in the field address topics that range from volunteer
tourism to fertility tourism to reveal new insights into the ways
tourism encounters are implicated in, and contribute to, broader
moral reconfigurations in Western and non-Western contexts.
Illustrating the role of power and power relations in tourism
encounters within different political, economic, environmental and
cultural contexts, the authors in this anthology analyse,
theoretically and empirically, the implications of the privileging
of some moralities at the expense of others. Key themes include the
moral consumption of tourism experiences, embodiment in tourism
encounters, environmental moralities as well as methodological
aspects of morality in tourism research. Crossing disciplinary and
chronological boundaries, Moral Encounters in Tourism provides a
much-anticipated overview of this new interdisciplinary terrain and
offers possible routes for new research on the intersection of
morality and tourism studies.
Events from a mobilities perspective attend to moments in which
individual networks coalesce in place but are not isolated in their
performance as they often foster far-reaching and mobile networks
of community. In so doing, individuals travel from varying
distances to participate in localized performances. However, events
themselves are also mobile, and events affect mobility. Mobile
events serve as contexts that provide meanings and purpose
articulated in relation to, and as, a series of other social
actions. They further highlight the role of the body and embodied
practices in the performance of events. Building on Sheller and
Urry's (2004) seminal work Tourism Mobilities, the purpose of this
book is to further develop event studies research within mobilities
studies so as to challenge the limitations that dichotomous
understandings of home/away, work/leisure, and host/guest play.
Simply put, events are always already place-based and political in
the sense that they can both inspire mobility as well as lead to
various immobilities for different social groups. The title
addresses everyday as well as extraordinary events, shining an
empirical and theoretical lens onto the political, economic and
social role of events in numerous geographic and cultural contexts.
It stretches across academic disciplines and fields of study to
illustrate the advantages of a mobilities multi-disciplinary
conversation. This groundbreaking volume is the first to offer a
conceptualization and theorization of event mobilities. It will
serve as a valuable resource and reference for event, tourism and
leisure studies students and scholars interested in exploring the
ways the everyday and the extraordinary interlace.
Why has political ecology been assigned so little attention in
tourism studies, despite its broad and critical interrogation of
environment and politics? As the first full-length treatment of a
political ecology of tourism, the collection addresses this lacuna
and calls for the further establishment of this emerging
interdisciplinary subfield. Drawing on recent trends in geography,
anthropology, and environmental and tourism studies, Political
Ecology of Tourism: Communities, Power and the Environment employs
a political ecology approach to the analysis of tourism through
three interrelated themes: Communities and Power, Conservation and
Control, and Development and Conflict. While geographically broad
in scope-with chapters that span Central and South America to
Africa, and South, Southeast, and East Asia to Europe and
Greenland-the collection illustrates how tourism-related
environmental challenges are shared across prodigious geographical
distances, while also attending to the nuanced ways they
materialize in local contexts and therefore demand the historically
situated, place-based and multi-scalar approach of political
ecology. This collection advances our understanding of the role of
political, economic and environmental concerns in tourism practice.
It offers readers a political ecology framework from which to
address tourism-related issues and themes such as development,
identity politics, environmental subjectivities, environmental
degradation, land and resources conflict, and indigenous ecologies.
Finally, the collection is bookended by a pair of essays from two
of the most distinguished scholars working in the subfield:
Rosaleen Duffy (foreword) and James Igoe (afterword). This
collection will be valuable reading for scholars and practitioners
alike who share a critical interest in the intersection of tourism,
politics and the environment
This book reframes tourism, as well as leisure, within mobilities
studies to challenge the limitations that dichotomous
understandings of home/away, work/leisure, and host/guest bring. A
mobilities approach to tourism and leisure encourages us to think
beyond the mobilities of tourists to ways in which tourism and
leisure experiences bring other mobilities into sync, or disorder,
and as a result re-conceptualizes social theory. The proposed
anthology stretches across academic disciplines and fields of study
to illustrate the advantages of multi-disciplinary conversation
and, in so doing, it challenges how we approach studies of
movement-based phenomena and the concept of scale. Part One
examines the ways in which mobility informs and is informed by
leisure, from everyday practices to leisure-inspired mobile
lifestyles. Part Two investigates individuals and communities that
become entrepreneurial in the face of changing tourism contexts and
reflects on the performance of work through multiple mobilities.
Part Three turns to issues of development, with attention to the
cultural politics that frame development encounters in the context
of tourism. The varied ways that people move into and out of
development projects is mediated by geopolitical discourses hat can
both challenge and perpetuate geographic imaginations of tourism
destinations.
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