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In Encounters across Difference, Natalia Bloch examines tourism encounters in India and their potential to empower subaltern communities. Drawing from ethnographic evidence in Hampi and Dharamshala, Bloch explores the potential of tourism to promote political engagement, volunteering, sponsorship, local entrepreneurship, and women’s empowerment. Contrary to frequent criticism of tourism to the Global South as a colonial practice, Bloch argues that workers and small entrepreneurs in displaced communities see tourists as allies in their political struggles and, on a more individual level, as an opportunity to build better lives.



Table of Contents

Introduction: Anthropology and Tourism: Dangerous Liaisons?

Chapter 1. In a Circle of Mobility: Field Sites, Research Partners, Methods

Chapter 2. The World Map as Seen from the Peripheries: Tourist as an Object of Gaze

Chapter 3. Not-So-Empty Meeting Grounds: Self-Representations and Relationships

Chapter 4. Recovering the Subaltern Voices: Tourism and Engagement

Chapter 5. Tourism as a Source of Individual Empowerment: Stories of Encounter

Encounters across Difference: Tourism and

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      Publisher Lexington Books
      Published 7 May 2021
      ISBN-13 9781793624710
      978-1793624710
      ISBN-10 1793624712
      Also in:
      Hospitality, sports and leisure industries Refugees and political asylum

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      In Encounters across Difference, Natalia Bloch examines tourism encounters in India and their potential to empower subaltern communities. Drawing from ethnographic evidence in Hampi and Dharamshala, Bloch explores the potential of tourism to promote political engagement, volunteering, sponsorship, local entrepreneurship, and women’s empowerment. Contrary to frequent criticism of tourism to the Global South as a colonial practice, Bloch argues that workers and small entrepreneurs in displaced communities see tourists as allies in their political struggles and, on a more individual level, as an opportunity to build better lives.



      Table of Contents

      Introduction: Anthropology and Tourism: Dangerous Liaisons?

      Chapter 1. In a Circle of Mobility: Field Sites, Research Partners, Methods

      Chapter 2. The World Map as Seen from the Peripheries: Tourist as an Object of Gaze

      Chapter 3. Not-So-Empty Meeting Grounds: Self-Representations and Relationships

      Chapter 4. Recovering the Subaltern Voices: Tourism and Engagement

      Chapter 5. Tourism as a Source of Individual Empowerment: Stories of Encounter

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