Description: Stuck With Tourism : Space, Power, and Labor in Contemporary Yucatan, Paperback by Azcárate, Matilde Córdoba, ISBN 0520344499, ISBN-13 9780520344495, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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 Yucatán Peninsula, a region voraciously transformed by tourism development over the past forty years. Contrasting labor and lived experiences at the beach resorts of Cancún, 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 Yucatán’s inhabitants put it, people get stuck in tourism’s grip.
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Book Title: Stuck with Tourism : Space, Power, and Labor in Contemporary Yucatan
Number of Pages: 316 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Topic: Earth Sciences / Geography, Industries / Hospitality, Travel & Tourism, Development / Economic Development, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Publication Year: 2020
Item Height: 0.8 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Social Science, Science, Business & Economics
Item Weight: 14.4 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Matilde Córdoba Azcárate
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback