Anthropocene Ecologies: Entanglements of Tourism, Nature and Imagination

ISBN-13: 9781032084084 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 212 str.

Mary Mostafanezhad; Roger Norum

Opis

Anthropocene Ecologies examines anthropocenic imaginaries across several critical themes in social science studies of tourism such as gender, health, conservation, agriculture, climate change, disaster and coastal marine management.

Spis treści

Foreword Bram Büscher Introduction The anthropocenic imaginary: political ecologies of tourism in a geological epoch Mary Mostafanezhad and Roger Norum 1. Selling Anthropocene space: situated adventures in sustainable tourism Amelia Moore 2. Nicaragua's Buen Vivir: a strategy for tourism development? Josh Fisher 3. What are wilderness areas for? Tourism and political ecologies of wilderness uses and management in the Anthropocene Jarkko Saarinen 4. Tourism and environmental subjectivities in the Anthropocene: observations from Niru Village, Southwest China Jundan Zhang 5. Fueling ecological neglect in a manufactured tourist city: planning, disaster mapping, and environmental art in Cancun, Mexico Matilde Cordoba Azcarate 6. Ecotourism after nature: Anthropocene tourism as a new capitalist “fix” Robert Fletcher 7. Friction in the forest: a confluence of structural and discursive political ecologies of tourism in the Ecuadorian Amazon Annie A. Marcinek and Carter A. Hunt 8. Tourism and community resilience in the Anthropocene: accentuating temporal overtourism Joseph M. Cheer, Claudio Milano and Marina Novelli 9. Tourists and researcher identities: critical considerations of collisions, collaborations and confluences in Svalbard Samantha M. Saville 10. Entanglements in multispecies voluntourism: conservation and Utila’s affect economy Keri Vacanti Brondo Afterword: Involving Earth - Tourism matters of concern Edward Huijbens

O autorze

Mary Mostafanezhad is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Environment at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Her research examines the political ecology of tourism and socio-ecological change in the Asia-Pacific region.

Roger Norum is University Lecturer in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Oulu, Finland. He studies the changing roles of mobility, media and the environment, with a particular emphasis on the everyday geopolitics of territory, time and labour, particularly among transient and precarious communities in the Arctic and South Asia.