Political Ecology of Tourism: Community, power and the environment (Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility)

Synopsis

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

Copyright:

2016

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ISBN-13:

9781317509349

Related ISBNs:

9781315717227, 9781138859449, 9781138859449, 9781138592483, 9781138592483

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

02/12/20

Copyrighted By:

selection and editorial matter, Mary Mostafanezhad, Roger Norum, Eric J. Shelton and Anna Thompson-Carr

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No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Travel, Business and Finance

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Bookshare Staff

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This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Mary Mostafanezhad

Edited by:

Roger Norum

Edited by:

Eric J. Shelton

Edited by:

Anna Thompson-Carr