Description
Book SynopsisPeace through Tourism considers the possibilities for tourism to contribute to efforts to unmask conflict and promote peace. This edited volume considers the intersections between tourism, peace, justice and sustainability through conceptual and empirical works surveying practices, problems and challenges all around the globe. It presents a complex and critical approach, arguing that peace through tourism is dialogic and not as simple as describing a few good niche segments of tourism.
The pedagogies of peace represented here work to analyse structural violence associated with tourismsuch as in the dominance of neoliberal market imperatives over local or social economies; colonising, patriarchal and anthropocentric practices in tourism; and tourism's complex role in post-conflict settings. Analyses found here place scholars, industry and communities in conversation about building shared tourism futures where peace is understood as peace with justice and differences
Table of Contents
Introduction Peace through tourism: Critical reflections on the intersections between peace, justice, sustainable development and tourism Part 1: Addressing structural violence 1. Fortress tourism: exploring dynamics of tourism, security and peace around the Virunga transboundary conservation area 2. Tourism, peace and sustainability in sanctions-ridden destinations 3. Insurgent citizens: mobility (in)justice and international travel 4. The role of dark commemorative and sport events in peaceful coexistence in the Western Balkans 5. Peacebuilding and post-conflict tourism: addressing structural violence in Colombia 6. Disrupting structural violence in South Africa through township tourism Part 2: Peace Tourism Pedagogies 7. “We are reconciliators”: when Indigenous tourism begins with agency 8. Exploring a unifying approach to peacebuilding through tourism: Abraham and Israel/Palestine 9. Promoting sustainable tourism futures in Timor-Leste by creating synergies between food, place and people 10. Living in the Wake of Rural Irish Troubles: building an institution for sustainable peace through emotive out-of-place tourism 11. Beyond multicultural ‘tolerance’: guided tours and guidebooks as transformative tools for civic learning 12. One stone, two birds: harnessing interfaith tourism for peacebuilding and socio-economic development 13. “Don’t look back in anger”. War museums’ role in the post conflict tourism-peace nexus 14. Dances with despots: tourists and the afterlife of statues Part 3: Radical Peace Tourism in Practice 15. Making waves: Peace Boat Japan as a model of sustainable peace through tourism 16. A diverse economies approach for promoting peace and justice in volunteer tourism 17. Te Awa Tupua: peace, justice and sustainability through Indigenous tourism Part 4: Postscript 18. WWOOFing in Australia: ideas and lessons for a de-commodified sustainability tourism 19. Gender and sustainability – exploring ways of knowing – an ecohumanities perspective 20. “This is a holy place of Ama Jomo”: buen vivir, indigenous voices and ecotourism development in a protected area of Bhutan 21. The land has voice: understanding the land tenure –sustainable tourism development nexus in Micronesia 22. Colonizing space and commodifying place: tourism’s violent geographies
