1st Edition

Peace Through Tourism Critical Reflections on the Intersections between Peace, Justice and Sustainable Development

452 Pages
by Routledge

452 Pages
by Routledge

452 Pages
by Routledge

Peace through Tourism considers the possibilities for tourism to contribute to efforts to unmask conflict and promote peace. This edited volume considers the intersections between tourism, peace, justice and sustainability through conceptual and empirical works surveying practices, problems and challenges all around the globe. It presents a complex and critical approach, arguing that peace... Read more

Introduction: Peace through tourism: Critical reflections on the intersections between peace, justice, sustainable development and tourism

Freya Higgins-Desbiolles, Lynda-Ann Blanchard and Yoko Urbain

Part I: Addressing structural violence

1. Fortress tourism: exploring dynamics of tourism, security and peace around the Virunga transboundary conservation area

Lisa Trogisch and Robert Fletcher

2. Tourism, peace and sustainability in sanctions-ridden destinations

Siamak Seyfi, Colin Michael Hall and Tan Vo-Thanh

3. Insurgent citizens: mobility (in)justice and international travel

Pooneh Torabian and Heather Mair

4. The role of dark commemorative and sport events in peaceful coexistence in the Western Balkans

Metod Šuligoj and James Kennell

5. Peacebuilding and post-conflict tourism: addressing structural violence in Colombia

Mónica Guasca, Dominique Vanneste and Anne Marie Van Broeck

6. Disrupting structural violence in South Africa through township tourism

Meghan L. Muldoon and Heather L. Mair

Part II: Peace Tourism Pedagogies

7. "We are reconciliators": when Indigenous tourism begins with agency

Nicole Curtin and Steven Bird

8. Exploring a unifying approach to peacebuilding through tourism: Abraham and Israel/Palestine

Jack Shepherd

9. Promoting sustainable tourism futures in Timor-Leste by creating synergies between food, place and people

Tracy Berno, Gobie Rajalingam, Agueda Isolina Miranda and Julia Ximenes

10. Living in the Wake of Rural Irish Troubles: building an institution for sustainable peace through emotive out-of-place tourism

John Erwin and Tristan Sturm

11. Beyond multicultural ‘tolerance’: guided tours and guidebooks as transformative tools for civic learning

Meghann Ormond and Francesco Vietti

12. One stone, two birds: harnessing interfaith tourism for peacebuilding and socio-economic development

Dagnachew Leta Senbeto

13. "Don’t look back in anger". War museums’ role in the post conflict tourism-peace nexus

Fabio Carbone

14. Dances with despots: tourists and the afterlife of statues

Elizabeth Carnegie and Jerzy Kociatkiewicz

Part III: Radical Peace Tourism in Practice

15. Making waves: Peace Boat Japan as a model of sustainable peace through tourism

Lynda-ann Blanchard, Sumiko Hatakeyama and Akira Kawasaki

16. A diverse economies approach for promoting peace and justice in volunteer tourism

Phoebe Everingham, Tamara N. Young, Stephen L. Wearing and Kevin Lyons

17. Te Awa Tupua: peace, justice and sustainability through Indigenous tourism

Jason Paul Mika and Regina A. Scheyvens

Part IV: Postscript

18. WWOOFing in Australia: ideas and lessons for a de-commodified sustainability tourism

Adrian Deville, Stephen Wearing and Matthew McDonald

19. Gender and sustainability – exploring ways of knowing – an ecohumanities perspective

Kumi Kato

20. "This is a holy place of Ama Jomo": buen vivir, indigenous voices and ecotourism development in a protected area of Bhutan

Heidi Karst

21. The land has voice: understanding the land tenure –sustainable tourism development nexus in Micronesia

T. S. Stumpf and C. L. Cheshire

22. Colonizing space and commodifying place: tourism’s violent geographies

Jennifer A. Devine

Biography

Freya Higgins-Desbiolles is Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Business Unit, University of South Australia, and Co-chair of the Peace Tourism Commission of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA).

Lynda-ann Blanchard is Vice-President of the Australian Council for Human Rights Education; Honorary Affiliate, Department of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia and, Co-chair of the Peace Tourism Commission of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA).

Yoko Urbain is affiliated with St. Marianna University Nursing School, Kawasaki City, and Soka University Department of Letters, Tokyo, Japan; and Co-chair of the Peace Tourism Commission of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA).