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Justice, Power, and Mobility in Tourism In Search of Ethical Encounters

306 Pages 27 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

306 Pages 27 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book offers a critical and justice-oriented examination of tourism’s complex impacts, revealing how it shapes and is shaped by economic, social, gender, environmental, animal, and racial (in)justices. It explores pathways toward more equitable and transformative practices for communities and environments. The book examines a mosaic of international research on issues of justice and power... Read more

Introduction: Justice, Power, and Mobility in Tourism  1 Economic impacts and the tourism workforce: A justice perspective  2 Tourism as a spatial solution and social (in)justice: The process of extensive and concentrated urbanization of tourism in sun and beach destinations on the periphery of capitalism  3 Land as an issue of peasant resistance against the Destination Ile à Vache tourism megaproject  4 Cooperation for sustaining tourism during turbulent times: A study of nature-based tourism businesses in Alta, Northern Norway  5 Spain à Gogo: Grey, green and golden grabbing in enclavic mass tourism resorts  6 Gender, fake facts, and truth  7 Can LGBTQ tourism contribute to advancing LGBTQ rights?  8 Embodying place-based tourism in Lunenburg as work  9 Social justice and sexual violence against children in Mexican tourist destinations: A first approach  10 Regenerative humanism: A pathway to justice and gender equality in community-led rural tourism  11 Gender and tourism: On the threshold to nuanced, complex, and multiple knowledges  12 Rethinking animal mobility justice in human power geometries: A theoretical framework  13 Nature guiding and ethics in tourism: More-than-human encounters in Arctic Norway  14 Animals as travellers: Posthuman reflections on animal mobility and justice in tourism  15 Limiting liminality: An ethical obligation to animals in tourism supply chains  16 Postcolonial im/mobilities: Youth summer camp canoe travel in Algonquin Provincial Park  17 Racialized mobility and tourism justice in America: The Negro Motorist Green Book as archive and map  18 Race, racism, and premature death

Biography

Dominic Lapointe is a professor in the Department of Urban and Tourism Studies at Université du Québec à Montréal. He holds the Chaire adaptation climat tourisme Québec at L’Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), and he is the head of Téoros, the oldest French-language tourism studies journal. His work explores the production of tourism space and its role in the capitalist system expansion and its biopolitical dimensions. Its latest research looks at climate change, social innovations, dwelling, and critical perspective in tourism studies.

Michela J. Stinson completed her PhD in the Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies at the University of Waterloo. She is interested in how stories, objects, and affects are ordered to maintain political and structural formations like nationalism and settler colonialism in tourism places. Her current work thinks through relations of land, public memory, infrastructure, and ruination in the city of Niagara Falls, Ontario.

Meghan L. Muldoon is an assistant professor of Sustainable Tourism and Society at the University of Groningen’s Campus Fryslân in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands, where she teaches courses in tourism, culture, and planning, gendered geographies, and arts-based methodologies for decolonizing research. Her research interests include the intersections of tourism and poverty, decolonization, feminisms, digital discourses, representations of indigeneity, and arts-based methodologies.

Bryan S. R. Grimwood is a professor in the Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies at the University of Waterloo, Canada. His research examines ethical and political dimensions of tourism, leisure, and cultural livelihoods.