Political Ecology of Tourism : Community, Power and the Environment (Hardcover)

Introduction: Communities and Power Mary Mostafanezhad, Roger Norum, Eric Shelton and Anna Thompson-Carr Section 1: Communities and Power  1. A Gendered Political Ecology of Tourism and Water Stroma Cole 2. Ngarrindjeri Authority: A sovereignty approach to tourism Ron Nicholls, Freya Higgins-Desbiolles and Grant Rigney 3. Co-management of Natural Resources in Protected Areas in ‘Post-Colonial’ Africa Chengeto Chaderopa 4. “Few People Know that Krishna was the First Environmentalist”: Religiously Motivated Conservation as a Response to Pilgrimage Pressures in Vrindavan, India Tamara Luthy 5. Festive environmentalism: A carnivalesque reading of eco-voluntourism at the Roskilde Festival Mette Fog Olwig and Lene Bull Christiansen Section 2: Conservation and Control Eric Shelton and Mary Mostafanezhad 6. Unsettling the Moral Economy of Tourism on Chile’s Easter Island Forrest Wade Young 7. Rethinking ecotourism in environmental discourse in Shangri-La: An antiessentialist political ecology perspective  Jundan (Jasmine) Zhang 8. (Re)creating forest natures: assemblage and political ecologies of ecotourism in Japan’s central highlands Eric J. Cunningham 9. ‘Ecotourism or Eco-utilitarianism ? exploring the new debates in Ecotourism Stephen Wearing and Michael Wearing Section 3: Development and Conflict Roger Norum and Mary Mostafanezhad 10. Political Ecologies and Economies of Tourism Development in Kaokoland, North-West Namibia Jarkko Saarinen 11. Cleaning Up the Streets, Sandinista-style: The Aesthetics of Garbage and the Urban Political Ecology of Tourism Development in Nicaragua Josh Fisher 12. The Political Ecology of Tourism Development on Mount Kilimanjaro Megan Holroyd? 13. “Absolutely Not Smelly”: The Political Ecology of Disengaged Slum Tours in Mumbai, India Kevin Hannam and Anya Diekmann 14. Composing Greenlandic tourism futures: An Integrated Political Ecology and Actor-Network Theory Approach Carina Ren, Lill Rastad Bjørst and Dianne Dredge Conclusion: Meets, Routes and Leaves: Concluding thoughts on the intersection of tourism studies and political ecology Roger Norum, Mary Mostafanezhad, Eric Shelton and Anna Thompson-Carr Afterword Jim Igoe