Recentering Tourism Geographies in the 'Asian Century'

ISBN-13: 9781032208282 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 304 str.

Harng Luh Sin; Mary Mostafanezhad; Joseph M. Cheer

Opis

This book considers what the transition into the Asian Century means for some of the most urgent issues in the world today, such as sustainable development, human rights, gender equality, and environmental change.

Spis treści

Introduction: Tourism geographies in the ‘Asian Century’  1. Critical tourism studies: new directions for volatile times  2. What western tourism concepts obscure: intersections of migration and tourism in Indonesia  3. Decentring scholarship through learning with/from each ‘other’  4. ‘Asianizing the field’: questioning Critical Tourism Studies in Asia  5. Becoming Airbnbeings: on datafication and the quantified Self in tourism  6. Going on holiday only to come home: making happy families in Singapore  7. Linkages between tourist resorts, local food production and the sustainable development goals  8. Food safety and tourism in Singapore: between microbial Russian roulette and Michelin stars  9. Visitor diversification in pilgrimage destinations: comparing national and international visitors through means-end  10. The materiality of air pollution: Urban political ecologies of tourism in Thailand  11. Ontological mingling and mapping: Chinese tourism researchers’ experiences at international conferences  12. Tourism studies is a geopolitical instrument: Conferences, Confucius Institutes, and ‘the Chinese Dream’  13. (Post-) pandemic tourism resiliency: Southeast Asian lives and livelihoods in limbo  Afterword: a critical reckoning with the ‘Asian Century’ in the shadow of the anthropocene