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Moral Encounters in Tourism

By: Mary Mostafanezhad,Kevin Hannam

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This first full length treatment of the role of morality in tourism examines how the tourism encounter is also fundamentally a moral encounter. Drawing upon interdisciplinary perspectives, leading and new authors in the field address topics that range from volunteer tourism to fertility tourism to reveal new insights into the ways tourism encounters are implicated in, and contribute to, broader moral reconfigurations in Western and non-Western contexts. Illustrating the role of power and power relations in tourism encounters within different political, economic, environmental and cultural contexts, the authors in this anthology analyse, theoretically and empirically, the implications of the privileging of some moralities at the expense of others. Key themes include the moral consumption of tourism experiences, embodiment in tourism encounters, environmental moralities as well as methodological aspects of morality in tourism research. Crossing disciplinary and chronological boundaries, Moral Encounters in Tourism provides a much-anticipated overview of this new interdisciplinary terrain and offers possible routes for new research on the intersection of morality and tourism studies.

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1317094158

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Volunteer Tourism

Popular Humanitarianism in Neoliberal Times

By: Mary Mostafanezhad

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Volunteer Tourism

Popular Humanitarianism in Neoliberal Times

By: Mary Mostafanezhad

Crossing disciplinary and chronological boundaries, Volunteer Tourism: Popular Humanitarianism in Neoliberal Times is the first full-length treatment of volunteer tourism from a longitudinal ethnographic perspective. Volunteer tourism, one of the fastest growing niche tourism markets in the world, is a type of tourism in which tourists pay to participate in conservation, humanitarian or development oriented projects. Volunteer Tourism is a comprehensive and comparative study of the perspectives of Thai host community members, NGO practitioners and international volunteer tourists. The book thus shines an ethnographic lens onto the complexities and contradictions of the volunteer tourism experience in northern Thailand. Drawing on cross-disciplinary perspectives in geography and anthropology as well as development, tourism and cultural studies, Volunteer Tourism illustrates how a focus on sentimentality in the volunteer tourism encounter obscures the structural inequalities on which the experience is based. Such a focus situates volunteer tourism within the commodification and sentimentalization of development and global justice agendas, which hail the new moral consumer and reframe questions of structural inequality as questions of individual morality. As a result, albeit inadvertently, the practice of volunteer tourism serves the continued expansion of the cultural logics and economic practices of neoliberalism.

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Volunteer Tourism

Popular Humanitarianism in Neoliberal Times

By: Mary Mostafanezhad

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Volunteer Tourism

Popular Humanitarianism in Neoliberal Times

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Food and Power in Hawai‘i

Visions of Food Democracy

By: Aya Hirata Kimura,Krisnawati Suryanata

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Food and Power in Hawai‘i

Visions of Food Democracy

By: Aya Hirata Kimura,Krisnawati Suryanata

In Food and Power in Hawai`i, island scholars and writers from backgrounds in academia, farming, and community organizations discuss new ways of looking at food policy and practices in terms of social justice and sustainability. Each of the nine essays describes Hawai`i’s foodscapes and collectively makes the case that food is a focal point for public policy making, social activism, and cultural mobilization. With its rich case studies, the volume aims to further debate on the agrofood system and extends the discussion of food problems in Hawai`i. Given the island geography, high dependency on imported food has often been portrayed as the primary challenge in Hawai`i, and the traditional response has been localized food production. The book argues, however, that aspects such as differentiated access, the history of colonization, and the neoliberalized nature of the economy also need to be considered for the right transformation of our food system. The essays point out the diversity of food challenges that Hawai`i faces. They include controversies over land use policies, a gendered and racialized farming population, benefits and costs of biotechnology, stratified access to nutritious foods, as well as ensuring the economic viability of farms. Defying the reductive approach that looks only at calories or tonnage of food produced and consumed as indicators of a sound food system, Food and Power in Hawai`i shows how food problems are necessarily layered with other sociocultural and economic problems, and uses food democracy as the guiding framework. By linking the debate on food explicitly to the issues of power and democracy, each contributor seeks to reframe a discourse, previously focused on increasing the volume of locally grown food or protecting farms, into the broader objectives of social justice, ecological sustainability, and economic viability.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824858611

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Moral Encounters in Tourism

By: Mary Mostafanezhad,Kevin Hannam

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The Cultural Politics of Volunteer Tourism

Sentimental Sojourns in Northern Thailand

By: Mary Mostafanezhad

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The Cultural Politics of Volunteer Tourism

Sentimental Sojourns in Northern Thailand

By: Mary Mostafanezhad

This is the first full length treatment of volunteer tourism from a longitudinal ethnographic perspective. Unique in combining a comprehensive and comparative study of Thai host community members', NGO coordinators' and international volunteer tourists' perspectives, the book shines an ethnographic lens onto the complexities as well as the contradictions of the volunteer tourism experience in northern Thailand. Drawing cross-disciplinary perspectives in anthropology and geography as well as development, tourism and cultural studies, this book illustrates how the focus on sentimentality in the volunteer tourism encounter obscures the structural inequalities on which the experience is based.

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Lund Humphries Publishers

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1409469549

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Tourism and Leisure Mobilities

Politics, Work, and Play

By: Jillian Rickly,Kevin Hannam

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Tourism and Leisure Mobilities

Politics, Work, and Play

By: Jillian Rickly,Kevin Hannam

This book reframes tourism, as well as leisure, within mobilities studies to challenge the limitations that dichotomous understandings of home/away, work/leisure, and host/guest bring. A mobilities approach to tourism and leisure encourages us to think beyond the mobilities of tourists to ways in which tourism and leisure experiences bring other mobilities into sync, or disorder, and as a result re-conceptualizes social theory. The proposed anthology stretches across academic disciplines and fields of study to illustrate the advantages of multi-disciplinary conversation and, in so doing, it challenges how we approach studies of movement-based phenomena and the concept of scale. Part One examines the ways in which mobility informs and is informed by leisure, from everyday practices to leisure-inspired mobile lifestyles. Part Two investigates individuals and communities that become entrepreneurial in the face of changing tourism contexts and reflects on the performance of work through multiple mobilities. Part Three turns to issues of development, with attention to the cultural politics that frame development encounters in the context of tourism. The varied ways that people move into and out of development projects is mediated by geopolitical discourses hat can both challenge and perpetuate geographic imaginations of tourism destinations.

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Book's by Mary Mostafanezhad

Moral Encounters in Tourism

Moral Encounters in Tourism

Volunteer Tourism

Volunteer Tourism

Volunteer Tourism

Volunteer Tourism

Food and Power in Hawai‘i

Food and Power in Hawai‘i

Moral Encounters in Tourism

Moral Encounters in Tourism

The Cultural Politics of Volunteer Tourism

The Cultural Politics of Volunteer Tourism

Tourism and Leisure Mobilities

Tourism and Leisure Mobilities

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