Exploring the connection between tourism and violence, this book draws on a range of disciplinary approaches, including social anthropology, cultural geography, sociology, and tourism studies. Ideas and concepts of violence have long been explored in the social sciences literature but in relation to tourism studies specifically the concept has rarely been problematised. Drawing on a range of case studies this book demonstrates the relationship between tourism and violence both in its overt physical form and in the social structures and symbolic landscapes that underpin touristic activity. Tourism and Violence offers a timely intervention in this field by bringing together, for the first time, work by scholars who, in their different ways, are engaging with the concept of violence within touristic settings and practices. This unique book paves the way for future research that will probe further the intersections between violence and tourism.
Biography
Hazel Andrews, Liverpool John Moores University, UK.
’Hazel Andrews’ carefully selected collection of case studies provide a surprising and at times even shocking, but always fascinating understanding of the intimate degree to which violence and tourism are interrelated. Rape, torture, warfare, murder, danger and risk are prominent themes in the tourist quest to encounter the Other and its commercial promotion.’ Jeremy Boissevain, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands ’This volume marks a turning point in tourism studies by facing up to the violence inherent in much contemporary tourism. Shining a light on the many kinds of violence that are inherent in tourism, from symbolic violence to trafficking, physical danger and risk, that sometimes deter and sometimes attract tourists, it opens the way for a serious reappraisal of both violence and tourism.’ Simone Abram, Leeds Beckett University, UK
