Moral Encounters in Tourism (Hardcover)

Notes on Contributors, 1. Introducing Moral Encounters in Tourism, Section 1: Moral Consumption in Tourism, 2. Moralizing Tourism: Personal Qualities, Political Issues, 3. International Volunteer Tourism as (De)commodified Moral Consumption, 4. The Re-Enchantment of Development: Creating Value for Volunteers in Nepal, 5. Tourism Development, Architectures of Escape and the Passive Beloved in Contemporary Yucatan (Mexico), Section 2: Embodied Tourism Encounters, 6. Reproductive Fugitives, Fertility ‘Exiles’ or Just Parents? Assessing Possible Approaches to the Governance of Cross-Border Fertility Tourism, 7. Gazing at Kayan Female Bodies as Embodied Others in Myanmar, 8. Moral Ambivalence in English Language Voluntourism, 9. Moral Lessons from a Storied Past in New York City, Section 3: Environmental Tourism Moralities, 10. On Decommodifying Ecotourism’s Social Value: Neoliberal Reformism or the New Environmental Morality?, 11. The Moralization of Flying: Cocktails in Seat 33G, Famine and Pestilence Below, 12. A Plutonium Tourism Ode: The Rocky Flats Cold War Museum, 13. Paying for Proximity: Touching the Moral Economy of Ecological Voluntourism, Section 4: Moral Methodologies, 14. Humanism and Tourism: A Moral Encounter, 15. Mind the Gap: Opening up Spaces of Multiple Moralities in Tourism Encounters, 16. What’s the ‘Use’ of Young Budget Travel?, 17. To Boldly Go Where No Van Has Gone Before: Auto-Ethnographic Experimentation and Mobile Fieldwork, Conclusion, 18. Conclusions: The Moral Conduct of Tourism Research, Index