1st Edition
Anthropocene Ecologies Entanglements of Tourism, Nature and Imagination
Foreword
Bram Büscher
Introduction
The anthropocenic imaginary: political ecologies of tourism in a geological epoch
Mary Mostafanezhad and Roger Norum
1. Selling Anthropocene space: situated adventures in sustainable tourism
Amelia Moore
2. Nicaragua's Buen Vivir: a strategy for tourism development?
Josh Fisher
3. What are wilderness areas for? Tourism and political ecologies of wilderness uses and management in the Anthropocene
Jarkko Saarinen
4. Tourism and environmental subjectivities in the Anthropocene: observations from Niru Village, Southwest China
Jundan Zhang
5. Fueling ecological neglect in a manufactured tourist city: planning, disaster mapping, and environmental art in Cancun, Mexico
Matilde Cordoba Azcarate
6. Ecotourism after nature: Anthropocene tourism as a new capitalist “fix”
Robert Fletcher
7. Friction in the forest: a confluence of structural and discursive political ecologies of tourism in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Annie A. Marcinek and Carter A. Hunt
8. Tourism and community resilience in the Anthropocene: accentuating temporal overtourism
Joseph M. Cheer, Claudio Milano and Marina Novelli
9. Tourists and researcher identities: critical considerations of collisions, collaborations and confluences in Svalbard
Samantha M. Saville
10. Entanglements in multispecies voluntourism: conservation and Utila’s affect economy
Keri Vacanti Brondo
Afterword: Involving Earth - Tourism matters of concern
Edward Huijbens
Biography
Mary Mostafanezhad is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Environment at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Her research examines the political ecology of tourism and socio-ecological change in the Asia-Pacific region.
Roger Norum is University Lecturer in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Oulu, Finland. He studies the changing roles of mobility, media and the environment, with a particular emphasis on the everyday geopolitics of territory, time and labour, particularly among transient and precarious communities in the Arctic and South Asia.
