1st Edition
The Political Geography of Tourism
Introduction – The new tourism geopolitics: bridging tourism geographies and political geography
Benjamin Lucca Iaquinto, Jamie Gillen and Mary Mostafanezhad
1 Geopolitics of mobile masses: refugee and tourist metaphors in Finnish- Russian bordertown media
Vilhelmiina Vainikka, Joni Tuomas Vainikka and Eeva- Kaisa Prokkola
2 “A nation built on coal”: transcalar memory work at the Big Pit
Mark Alan Rhodes II and William R. Price
3 The touristic transformation of postcolonial states: human zoos, global tourism competition, and the emergence of zoo- managing states
Sarah Becklake and Elisa Wynne- Hughes
4 COVID- 19 and international travel restrictions: the geopolitics of health and tourism
Siamak Seyfia, C. Michael Hall and Bardia Shabani
5 The ‘awkward’ geopolitics of tourism in China’s ‘Arctic’ village
Liling Xu
6 Tourism geopolitics: routes and worldings
Matilde Córdoba Azcárate
7 Tourism studies is a geopolitical instrument: conferences, Confucius Institutes, and ‘the Chinese Dream’
Ian Rowen
8 The ‘darkest history’ must live: narrating Sino- Japanese relations through museum geopolitics
Ning An and Junxi Qian
Tourism at the end of the world: places to play as kinopolitical constellations
Mimi Sheller
10 Toward a critical geopolitics of smart tourism
Tim Oakes
11 Tourism as an everyday geopolitical project
Diana Ojeda
12 A critical reflection on tourism geopolitics: research progressand future agenda
Yan Huang and Yungang Liu
Biography
Benjamin Lucca Iaquinto is Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography, University of Hong Kong. His research explores the environmental and political implications of tourism mobilities. He is an Associate Editor of Tourism Geographies and a Steering Committee member of the Australian Mobilities Research Network.
Jamie Gillen is Associate Professor in Global Studies at Waipapa Taumata Rau/the University of Auckland, Aotrearoa New Zealand. Jamie is trained as a human geographer who researches political transformations in Asia, with a focus on Southeast Asia and Vietnam. Jamie is an Editor for Tourism Geographies and Associate Editor for the Global Vietnam Book Series.
Mary Mostafanezhad is Professor in the Department of Geography and Environment at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Her scholarship focuses on socio-environmental change in the Asia-Pacific. She is the Co-Editor-in-Chief of Tourism Geographies and editor for the Critical Green Engagements Series.
