Stuck with tourism : space, power, and labor in contemporary Yucatán /

• Main Author: Córdoba Azcárate, Matilde (συγγραφέας.)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, c[2020]
• Subjects: Τουρισμός > Κοινωνικές απόψεις; Τουρισμός > Μεξικό > Γιουκατάν; Γιουκατάν (Μεξικό)

"Tourism has become one of the most powerful forces organizing the predatory geographies of late capitalism. It creates entangled futures of exploitation and dependence, extracting resources and labor, and eclipsing other ways of doing, living, and imagining life. And yet, tourism also creates...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Predatory and Sticky Tourism Geographies
• Beach Enclosures: Manufacturing a Caribbean Paradise
• Wild Hotspots: Contested Natures on the Maya Coast
• Colonial Enclaves: Site-Specific Indigeneity for Luxury Tourism
• City-Village: Domestic Maquila in the Tourist Offstage
• Conclusion: Tourism Fixation and Disciplinary Retoolings.