1st Edition

Tourism, Power and Space

By Andrew Church, Tim Coles Copyright 2007
    312 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    312 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    This is the first volume to explicitly consider how leisure and tourism acts as a major focus by which power may be understood in a geographical context.

    Key thinking and major approaches to unravelling the complexities of power are outlined in this collection and their relevance to current and future tourism studies is discussed. Tourism, Power and Space blends theoretical perspectives from leading power theorists such as: Parsons, Foucault and Clegg.

    Exploring the intricacies of the relationships between power, tourism and leisure, this stimulating volume combines theoretical and empirical writings to illustrate the extent to which power, in its various forms and guises and at various scales of operation, impacts on the unfolding structures, practices and organization of tourism and leisure on both the demand and supply sides.

    Divided into three sections: Power, Performance And Practice, Power, Property And Resources and Power, Governance And Empowerment; this text will be a useful resource for students and academics alike.

    1 Tourism, politics and the forgotten entanglements of power

    TIM COLES AND ANDREW CHURCH

    SECTION 1: POWER, PERFORMANCE AND PRACTICE

    2 The power of the tourist encounter

    DAVID CROUCH

    3 Adventure tourism: will to power?

    CARL CATER

    4 Disability legislation and the empowerment of disabled tourists in the United Kingdom

    GARETH SHAW

    5 Tourism, nation and power: a Foucauldian perspective of ‘Australia’s’ Ghan Train

    CAROLINE WINTER

    SECTION 2: POWER, PROPERTY AND RESOURCES

    6 The politics of bed units: growth control in the resort of Whistler, British Columbia.

    ALISON GILL

    7 Pedestrian shopping streets and urban tourism in the restructuring of the the Chinese City.

    ALAN LEW

    8 Power, Resource Mobilisation and Leisure Conflict on Inland Rivers in England

    ANDREW CHURCH AND NEIL RAVENSCROFT

    SECTION 3: POWER, GOVERNANCE AND EMPOWERMENT

    9 Empowerment and Stakeholder Participation in Tourism Destination Communities.

    DALLEN J. TIMOTHY

    10 Prosecuting Power: Tourism, Inter-Cultural Communications and the Tactics of Empowerment

    TIM COLES AND NICOLAI SCHERLE

    11 Tourism, Governance and the (Mis-)Location of power.

    C. MICHAEL HALL

    12 Tourism and the Many Faces of Power

    ANDREW CHURCH AND TIM COLES

    Biography

    Andrew Church is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Brighton.

    Tim Coles is University Business Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Management in the School of Business and Economics at the University of Exeter.