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Political Ecology of Tourism Why has political ecology been assigned so little attention in tourism studies, despite its broad and critical interrogation of environment and politics? As the first full-length treat- ment of a political ecology of tourism, the collection addresses this lacuna and calls for the further establishment of this emerging interdisciplinary subfield. Drawing on recent trends in geography, anthropology, and environmental and tourism studies, Political Ecology of Tourism: Communities, power and the environment employs a political ecology approach to the analysis of tourism through three interrelated themes: com- munities and power, conservation and control, and development and conflict. While geographi- cally broad in scope—with chapters that span Central and South America to Africa, and South, Southeast, and East Asia to Europe and Greenland—the collection illustrates how tourism- related environmental challenges are shared across prodigious geographical distances, while also attending to the nuanced ways they materialize in local contexts and therefore demand the historically situated, place-based and multi-scalar approach of political ecology. This collection advances our understanding of the role of political, economic and environ- mental concerns in tourism practice. It offers readers a political ecology framework from which to address tourism-related issues and themes such as development, identity politics, environmen- tal subjectivities, environmental degradation, land and resources conflict, and indigenous ecolo- gies. Finally, the collection is bookended by a pair of essays from two of the most distinguished scholars working in the subfield: Rosaleen Duffy (foreword) and James Igoe (afterword). This collection will be valuable reading for scholars and practitioners alike who share a critical interest in the intersection of tourism, politics and the environment Mary Mostafanezhad is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. Roger Norum is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Leeds School of English and a researcher on the HERA-funded project Arctic Encounters: Contemporary Travel/Writing in the European High North and the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network in Environmental Humanities. Trained in social anthropology, his research focuses on sociality, temporality, travel and the environment. Eric J. Shelton works with environmental NGOs in New Zealand and strives to situate nature-based tourism within environmental philosophy. Anna Thompson-Carr is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Tourism at the University of Otago, NZ. She has conducted research and published in high-quality tourism journals on visitors’ experiences of cultural values for landscapes in New Zealand with a focus on integrating cultural values within interpretation. Contemporary geographies of leisure, tourism and mobility Series Editor: C. Michael Hall Professor at the Department of Management, College of Business and Economics, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand For a complete list of titles in this series, please visit www.routledge.com The aim of this series is to explore and communicate the intersections and rela- tionships between leisure, tourism and human mobility within the social sciences. It will incorporate both traditional and new perspectives on leisure and tour- ism from contemporary geography, e.g. notions of identity, representation and culture, while also providing for perspectives from cognate areas such as anthro- pology, cultural studies, gastronomy and food studies, marketing, policy studies and political economy, regional and urban planning, and sociology, within the development of an integrated field of leisure and tourism studies. Also, increasingly, tourism and leisure are regarded as steps in a continuum of human mobility. Inclusion of mobility in the series offers the prospect to examine the relationship between tourism and migration, the sojourner, educational travel, and second home and retirement travel phenomena. The series comprises two strands: Contemporary geographies of leisure, tourism and mobility aims to address the needs of students and academics, and the titles will be published in hardback and paperback. Titles include: 1 The Moralisation of Tourism 5 The Media and the Tourist Sun, sand . . . and saving the world? Imagination Jim Butcher Converging cultures Edited by David Crouch, Rhona 2 The Ethics of Tourism Jackson and Felix Thompson Development Mick Smith and Rosaleen Duffy 6 Tourism and Global Environmental Change 3 Tourism in the Caribbean Ecological, social, economic and Trends, development, prospects political interrelationships Edited by David Timothy Duval Edited by Stefan Gössling and C. Michael Hall 4 Qualitative Research in Tourism Ontologies, epistemologies and 7 Cultural Heritage of Tourism in methodologies the Developing World Edited by Jenny Phillimore and Edited by Dallen J. Timothy and Lisa Goodson Gyan Nyaupane 8 Understanding and Managing 10 Tourism and Climate Change Tourism Impacts Impacts, adaptation and An integrated approach mitigation C. Michael Hall and Alan Lew C. Michael Hall, Stefan Gössling and Daniel Scott 9 An Introduction to Visual Research Methods in Tourism 11 Tourism and Citizenship Edited by Tijana Rakic and Donna Raoul V. Bianchi and Chambers Marcus L. Stephenson Routledge studies in contemporary geographies of leisure, tourism and mobility is a forum for innovative new research intended for research students and academics, and the titles will be available in hardback only. Titles include: 40 Scuba Diving Tourism 46 Trust, Tourism Development Edited by Kay Dimmcock and and Planning Ghazali Musa Edited by Robin Nunkoo and Stephen L.J. Smith 41 Contested Spatialities Lifestyle Migration and Residential 47 A Hospitable World? Tourism Organising work and workers in Michael Janoschka and Heiko Haas hotels and tourist resorts Edited by David Jordhus-Lier 42 Contemporary Issues in Cultural and Anders Underthun Heritage Tourism Edited by Jamie Kaminski, Angela 48 Tourism in Pacific Islands M. Benson and David Arnold Current issues and future challenges 43 Understanding and Governing Edited by Stephen Pratt and Sustainable Tourism Mobility David Harrison Edited by Scott Cohen, James Higham, Paul Peeters and Stefan 49 Social Memory and Heritage Gossling Tourism Methodologies 44 Green Growth and Travelism Edited by Stephen P. Hanna, Concept, policy and practice for Amy E. Potter, E. Arnold Modlin, sustainable tourism Perry Carter, and David L. Butler Edited by Terry DeLacy, Min Jiang, Geoffrey Lipman and 50 Affective Tourism Shaun Vorster Dark routes in conflict Dorina Maria Buda 45 Tourism, Religion and Pilgrimage in Jerusalem 51 Scientific Tourism Kobi Cohen-Hattab and Noam Edited by Susan L. Slocum, Shoval Carol Kline and Andrew Holden 52 Volunteer Tourism and 56 Tourism and Development in Development Sub-Saharan Africa The lifestyle politics of Current issues and local realities international development Marina Novelli Jim Butcher and Peter Smith 57 Tourism and the Anthropocene 53 Imagining the West through Edited by Martin Gren and Film and Tourism Edward H. Huijbens Warwick Frost and Jennifer Laing 58 The Politics and Power of Tourism in Palestine 54 The Practice of Sustainable Edited by Rami K. Isaac, Tourism C. Michael Hall and Freya Resolving the paradox Higgins-Desbiolles Edited by Michael Hughes, David Weaver and Christof Pforr 59 Political Ecology of Tourism Community, power and the 55 Mountaineering Tourism environment Edited by Ghazali Musa, Edited by Mary Mostafanezhad, James Higham and Eric Jacob Shelton, Roger Norum Anna Thompson and Anna Thompson-Carr Forthcoming: International Tourism and Research Volunteer Tourism Cooperation and the Gulf Angela M Benson Cooperation Council States Developments, challenges and Managing and Interpreting D-day’s opportunities Sites of Memory Edited by Marcus Stephenson War graves, museums and tour and Ala Al-Hamarneh guides Edited by Geoffrey Bird, Sean Claxton Protest and Resistance in the and Keir Reeves Tourist City Edited by Johannes Novy Co-Creation in Tourist Experiences and Claire Colomb Nina Prebensen, Joseph Chen and Muzaffer Uysal Women and Sex Tourism Landscapes Authentic and Inauthentic Places Erin Sanders-McDonagh Jane Lovell and Chris Bull Political Ecology of Tourism Community, power and the environment Edited by Mary Mostafanezhad, Roger Norum, Eric J. Shelton and Anna Thompson-Carr First published 2016 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2016 selection and editorial matter, Mary Mostafanezhad, Roger Norum, Eric J. Shelton and Anna Thompson-Carr; individual chapters: the contributors. The right of Mary Mostafanezhad, Roger Norum, Eric J. Shelton and Anna Thompson-Carr to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data A catalog record for this book has been requested ISBN: 978-1-138-85944-9 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-315-71722-7 (ebk) Typeset in Times New Roman by Swales & Willis Ltd, Exeter, Devon, UK Contents List of figures x List of contributors xi Foreword xvi ROSALEEN DUFFY Introduction 1 MARY MOSTAFANEZHAD, ROGER NORUM, ERIC J. SHELTON AND ANNA THOMPSON-CARR PART I Communities and power 23 Introduction to Communities and power 25 ANNA THOMPSON-CARR 1 A gendered political ecology of tourism and water 31 STROMA COLE 2 Ngarrindjeri authority: a sovereignty approach to tourism 50 RON NICHOLLS, FREYA HIGGINS-DESBIOLLES AND GRANT RIGNEY 3 Co-management of natural resources in protected areas in ‘postcolonial’ Africa 70 CHENGETO CHADEROPA 4 ‘Few people know that Krishna was the first environmentalist’: religiously motivated conservation as a response to pilgrimage pressures in Vrindavan, India 92 TAMARA LUTHY 5 Festive environmentalism: a carnivalesque reading of eco-voluntourism at the Roskilde Festival 108 METTE FOG OLWIG AND LENE BULL CHRISTIANSEN viii Contents PART II Conservation and control 129 Introduction to Conservation and control 131 ERIC J. SHELTON 6 Unsettling the moral economy of tourism on Chile’s Easter Island 134 FORREST WADE YOUNG 7 Rethinking ecotourism in environmental discourse in Shangri-La: an antiessentialist political ecology perspective 151 JUNDAN (JASMINE) ZHANG 8 (Re)creating forest natures: assemblage and political ecologies of ecotourism in Japan’s central highlands 169 ERIC J. CUNNINGHAM 9 Ecotourism or eco-utilitarianism: exploring the new debates in ecotourism 188 STEPHEN WEARING AND MICHAEL WEARING PART III Development and conflict 207 Introduction to Development and conflict 209 MARY MOSTAFANEZHAD 10 Political ecologies and economies of tourism development in Kaokoland, north-west Namibia 213 JARKKO SAARINEN 11 Cleaning up the streets, Sandinista-style: the aesthetics of garbage and the urban political ecology of tourism development in Nicaragua 231 JOSH FISHER 12 The political ecology of tourism development on Mount Kilimanjaro 251 MEGAN HOLROYD 13 ‘Absolutely not smelly’: the political ecology of disengaged slum tours in Mumbai, India 270 KEVIN HANNAM AND ANYA DIEKMANN Contents ix 14 Composing Greenlandic tourism futures: an integrated political ecology and actor-network theory approach 284 CARINA REN, LILL RASTAD BJØRST AND DIANNE DREDGE Conclusion: Towards future intersections of tourism studies and political ecology 302 ROGER NORUM, MARY MOSTAFANEZHAD, ERIC J. SHELTON AND ANNA THOMPSON-CARR Afterword 309 JAMES IGOE Index 317
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