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Natalia Bloch - Encounters across Difference, Inbunden

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Encounters across Difference

Tourism and Overcoming Subalternity in India

Av Natalia Bloch

Del i serien Anthropology of Tourism: Heritage, Mobility, and Society

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In Encounters across Difference, Natalia Bloch examines tourism encounters in the informal sector in India and their potential to empower subaltern communities. Drawing from ethnographic evidence in Hampi and Dharamshala, Bloch explores the potential of tourism to promote political engagement, volunteering, sponsorship, local entrepreneurship, and women’s empowerment. Contrary to the frequent criticism of tourism to the Global South as a colonial practice, Bloch argues that workers and small entrepreneurs in displaced communities see tourists as allies in their political struggles and, on a more individual level, as an opportunity to build better lives.For more information, check out A Conversation with Natalia Bloch, author of Encounters across Difference: Tourism and Overcoming Subalternity in India.
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Natalia Bloch is associate professor in the Institute of Anthropology and Ethnology at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan

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An exemplary book in every way, Encounters across Difference makes a major contribution to our understanding of tourism’s possibilities for creating spaces where subalterns can exercise agency and regain their voices. Through lucidly written ethnographic accounts, Bloch problematizes simplistic yet enduring representations of tourism as a new genre of colonial relations wherein ‘tourists’ and ‘locals’ are locked in unequal relations of political struggle. Likewise, Bloch offers nuanced and ethnographically grounded reassessments of recent critiques of volunteer tourism and contributes to current discussions of the ways in which friendships, romances, and employment relationships unfolding in the context of tourism offer informal opportunities for individual empowerment. Her case studies of encounters between tourists (both domestic and international), displaced residents, migrant workers, refugees, and foreign NGO volunteers in two Indian destinations artfully demonstrate the value of a bottom-up approach to understanding tourism’s possibilities for shifting political perceptions and presenting new opportunities for historically marginalized individuals and communities. Theoretically sophisticated and engagingly written, Bloch’s book is certain to earn a respected place on the bookshelves of scholars of tourism, migration, and refugee studies. Moreover, it also promises to become a classic teaching text for courses on the anthropology of tourism.

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