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Book SynopsisTourism and Wellness: Travel for the Good of All? enhances academic understandings and analyses of tourism as a social and worldmaking force by situating broad questions of well-being, health, and equity within the scaffolds of critical tourism studies. Contributors touch on power and politics, space and place, reflexivity and relationships, values and affect, and inequality and equity as viewed through critically informed and social justice perspectives. This collection of cutting-edge, critical tourism analyses contextualizes and disrupts how wellness is understood in tourism.
Trade ReviewThis invaluable collection brings together contributors who adopt a critical studies approach to scrutinize the tourism-wellness nexus. The depth of thoughts expressed, the freshness of ideas discussed, and the multiplicity of perspectives explored undoubtedly make the book stand out. Those with an academic interest in the subject of tourism and wellness, as well as general and practitioner readers, should find the contents of this book both interesting and inspiring. -- Honggen Xiao, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
This is a terrific book and ought to be read by everyone with an interest in wellness. This compilation sheds much needed light on wellness from an array of spaces and stories, including the Indigenous, the feminist, the historical, the non-human, the researcher, the local and created communities. As such the scope of this volume is complex and holistic in its intention, answering a call for more inclusive and embodied understandings of tourism. -- Heike Schanzel, Auckland University of Technology
Moving beyond the level of the individual to consider wellness as more broadly implicated within social and ecological relations, this timely book takes a much needed holistic approach to the fascinating relationship between wellness and tourism. -- Hazel Tucker, University of Otago
Table of ContentsChapter 1: Black Female Cultural Safety in tebrakunna country: What is Wellness for Us? by Emma Lee Chapter 2: Exploring Local Languages Use in Community-Based Tourism Settings in Haida Gwaii (British Columbia, Canada) by Kelly Whitney-Gould, Pamela Wright, Anna Carr, and Jason (Gaagwiis) Alsop Chapter 3: Blogging for Researcher Wellbeing in a Study of South African Township Tourism by Meghan Muldoon Chapter 4: Let Them be Heard: The Emotional Performances of Enslaved Narratives at United States Plantation Sites by Stefanie Benjamin Chapter 5: Caring for Animal Welfare: Volunteer Tourists and Captive-Elephant Wellbeing in Thailand by Madyson Taylor, Bryan S. R. Grimwood, and Karla Boluk Chapter 6: Retreat and Freedom at the Canadian Cottage: An Early Feminist Story by Julia Harrison Chapter 7: Family Travel in the US: Attitudes and Barriers to Family Wellbeing by Lynn Minnaert Chapter 8: Wellness Through Everyday Place-Sharing: The Emotional Geographies of Migrant Family Travel Back ‘Home’ to Cyprus by Kelley A. McClinchey Chapter 9: Making Love on the Farm: The Shambhala Music Festival by Nataliya Kiyan and Kellee Caton Chapter 10: Community Wellbeing Between Climate Risk and Tourism Development: Contradictions on the Shore of the St. Lawrence Estuary by Coralie Lebon and Dominic Lapointe
