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This book draws upon a variety of important philosophical traditions to develop an original perspective on the relations between ethical, economic and aesthetic values in a tourism context. It considers the ethical/political issues arising in many areas of tourism development, including the profound cultural and environmental impacts on tourist destinations; the reciprocity (or lack of) in host-guest relations; the (un)fair distribution of benefits and revenues; and the moral implications of issues like sex tourism, staged authenticity and travel to oppressive regimes. The book concludes with a detailed investigation of the potential and pitfalls of ecotourism, sustainable tourism and community based tourism, as examples of what is sometimes termed 'ethical tourism.' The authors explain philosophical arguments without the use of excessive jargon. Their interweaving of theory and practise is facilitated by the use of text boxes to explain key terms in ethics, politics, and tourism development and by drawing on contemporary case studies from South Africa, Mexico, Zambia, Honduras, Ethiopia and Madagascar.
Rethinking our relationship with Earth in a time of environmental
emergency The world is changing. Progress no longer has a future
but any earlier sense of Earth as “providential” seems of
merely historical interest. The apparent absence of Earthly
solicitude is a symptom and consequence of these successive Western
modes of engagement with the Earth, now exemplified in global
capitalism. Within these constructs, Earth can only appear as
constitutively indifferent to the fate of all its inhabitants. The
“provisional ecology” outlined in Does the Earth
Care?—drawing on a variety of literary and philosophical sources
from Richard Jefferies and Robert Macfarlane to Martin Heidegger
and Gaia theory—fundamentally challenges that assumption, while
offering an Earthly alternative to either cold realism or alienated
despair in the face of impending ecological disaster. Forerunners
is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital works.
Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws
on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media,
conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic
exchange. This is gray literature publishing: where intense
thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship.
Recent years have witnessed a rapid rise in engagement with emotion
and affect across a broad range of disciplines in the humanities
and social sciences, with geographers among others making a
significant contribution by examining the emotional intersections
between people and places. Building on the achievements of
Emotional Geographies (2005), the editors have brought together
leading scholars such as Nigel Thrift, Alphonso Lingis and Frances
Dyson as well as young, up and coming academics from a diverse
range of disciplines to investigate feelings and affect in various
spatial and social contexts, environments and landscapes. The book
is divided into five sections covering the themes of remembering,
understanding, mourning, belonging, and enchanting.
Recent years have witnessed a rapid rise in engagement with emotion
and affect across a broad range of disciplines in the humanities
and social sciences, with geographers among others making a
significant contribution by examining the emotional intersections
between people and places. Building on the achievements of
Emotional Geographies (2005), the editors have brought together
leading scholars such as Nigel Thrift, Alphonso Lingis and Frances
Dyson as well as young, up and coming academics from a diverse
range of disciplines to investigate feelings and affect in various
spatial and social contexts, environments and landscapes. The book
is divided into five sections covering the themes of remembering,
understanding, mourning, belonging, and enchanting.
This book draws upon a variety of important philosophical traditions to develop an original perspective on the relations between ethical, economic and aesthetic values in a tourism context. It considers the ethical/political issues arising in many areas of tourism development, including the profound cultural and environmental impacts on tourist destinations; the reciprocity (or lack of) in host-guest relations; the (un)fair distribution of benefits and revenues; and the moral implications of issues like sex tourism, staged authenticity and travel to oppressive regimes. The book concludes with a detailed investigation of the potential and pitfalls of ecotourism, sustainable tourism and community-based tourism, as examples of what is sometimes termed 'ethical tourism.'
The authors explain philosophical arguments without the use of excessive jargon. Their interweaving of theory and practice is facilitated by the use of text boxes to explain key terms in ethics, politics, and tourism development and by drawing on contemporary case-studies from South Africa, Mexico, Zambia, Honduras, Ethiopia and Madagascar.
"Against Ecological Sovereignty" is a passionate defense of
radical ecology that speaks directly to current debates concerning
the nature, and dangers, of sovereign power. Engaging the work of
Bataille, Arendt, Levinas, Nancy, and Agamben, among others, Mick
Smith reconnects the political critique of sovereign power with
ecological considerations, arguing that ethical and political
responsibilities for the consequences of our actions do not end
with those defined as human.
"Against Ecological Sovereignty" is the first book to turn
Agamben's analysis of sovereignty and biopolitics toward an
investigation of ecological concerns. In doing so it exposes limits
to that thought, maintaining that the increasingly widespread
biopolitical management of human populations has an unrecognized
ecological analogue--reducing nature to a "resource" for human
projects. Smith contends that a radical ecological politics must
resist both the depoliticizing exercise of sovereign power and the
pervasive spread of biopolitics in order to reveal new
possibilities for creating healthy human and nonhuman
communities.
Presenting a stinging critique of human claims to sovereignty
over the natural world, Smith proposes an alternative way to
conceive of posthumanist ecological communities--one that
recognizes the utter singularity of the beings in them.
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