Political Ecology and Tourism

Sanjay Nepal is Professor of Geography and Environmental Management at the University of Waterloo, Canada. Jarkko Saarinen is Professor of Geography at the University of Oulu, Finland, and Distinguished Visitor Professor at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.

"Nepal and Saarinen (2016) acknowledge in their concluding remarks that this volume is meant to be a building block for future political ecology research in tourism. Indeed, it is a great effort to highlight political ecology as a useful lens for tourism research, especially for topics related to communities, power, conservation and sustainability. Political ecology and tourism should be of interest to scholars and practitioners as both theories and practical recommendations are present throughout."Denis Tolkach, School of Hotel and Tourism Management, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

• Introduction: Political ecology and tourism – concepts and constructs Part I: Communities and Livelihoods Introduction 1. Indigenous tourism as a sustainable social-environmental enterprise: The political ecology of tourism in Southeast Alaska 2. Political ecology of the flats fishing industry in the Bahamas 3. Decommodifying neoliberal conservation? A political ecology of volunteer tourism in Costa Rica N 4. The politics of community-based ecotourism in Sakteng Wildlife Sanctuary, Bhutan Part II: Class, Representation and Power Introduction 5. "A fragmented shore": Class politics and the Connecticut beaches 6. The call of the wild: Power and ideology in the Adirondack Park 7. Political ecology of community-based natural resources management: Principles and practices of power sharing in Botswana 8. Conservation for whom? Parks, people, and tourism in Annapurna Conservation Area, Nepal Part III: Disposession and Displacement Introduction 9. Maya as commodity fetish: Accumulation by dispossession and ecotourism in the Yucatan Peninsula 10. A political ecology of tourism in the shadow of an inter-oceanic canal in Nicaragua: Displacing poverty or displacing social and environmental welfare? 11. High-end coastal tourism in northeastern Brazil: Implications for local livelihoods and natural resources management 12. Tourism development, dispossession and displacement of local communities in the Okavango Delta, Botswana Part IV: Environmental Justice and Community Empowerment Introduction 13. Context-sensitive political ecology to consolidate local realities under global discourses: A view for tourism studies H 14. "Skwelkwek’welt is what we call this place": Indigenous-Settler relations and the "othered" side of British Columbia’s Sun Peaks Resort 15. Environment, Gender and Identity: The Taselotzin Project by Indigenous Women in Cuetzalan, Mexico 16. Conclusions: Towards a political ecology of tourism - key issues and research prospects