Stuck With Tourism: Space, Power, and Labor in Contemporary Yucatan - Couverture souple

Azcárate, Matilde Córdoba

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0520344499 ISBN 13 : 9780520344495

Editeur : University of California Press, 2020

Synopsis

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 jobs, encourages infrastructure development, and in many places inspires the only possibility of hope and well-being. Stuck with Tourism explores the ambivalent nature of tourism by drawing on ethnographic evidence from the Mexican Yucatan Peninsula, a region voraciously transformed by tourism development over the past forty years. Contrasting labor and lived experiences at the beach resorts of Cancun, protected natural enclaves along the Gulf coast, historical buildings of the colonial past, and maquilas for souvenir production in the Maya heartland, this book explores the moral, political, ecological, and everyday dilemmas that emerge when, as Yucatan's inhabitants put it, people get stuck in tourism's grip.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Matilde Cordoba Azcarate is Assistant Professor in the Communication Department at the University of California, San Diego.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0520344499
• ISBN 13: 9780520344495
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 297
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