1st Edition
Peace Through Tourism Critical Reflections on the Intersections between Peace, Justice and Sustainable Development
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 through tourism is dialogic and not as simple as describing a few “good” niche segments of tourism.
The pedagogies of peace represented here work to analyse structural violence associated with tourism—such as in the dominance of neoliberal market imperatives over local or social economies; colonising, patriarchal and anthropocentric practices in tourism; and tourism’s complex role in post-conflict settings. Analyses found here place scholars, industry and communities in conversation about building shared tourism futures where peace is understood as peace with justice and differences are bridged through dialogues towards understanding. In light of the many challenges in attaining sustainable development in the 21st century, this volume is an important and timely endeavour. Radical practices are explored that support more ‘just’ tourism futures.
With a new introduction, this book is an insightful resource for scholars and researchers of Tourism and Peace and Conflict Studies. The chapters in this book were originally published in Journal of Sustainable Tourism.
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).
