Description
| Product ID: | 9780520344495 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | Stuck with Tourism |
| Subtitle: | Space, Power, and Labor in Contemporary Yucatan |
| Authors: | Author: Matilde Cordoba Azcarate |
| Page Count: | 316 |
| Subjects: | Regional / International studies, Regional studies, History of the Americas, Indigenous peoples, Social and cultural anthropology, Development economics and emerging economies, Agribusiness and primary industries, Energy industries and utilities, Hospitality and service industries, Sustainability, History of the Americas, Indigenous peoples, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Development economics & emerging economies, Primary industries, Energy industries & utilities, Service industries, Sustainability, Mexico |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. |
| Imprint Name: | University of California Press |
| Publisher Name: | University of California Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-10-20 |
