Abstract
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.
Schlagworte
Hampi Asian studies Dharamshala UNESCO Tibetan refugees Tibetans in exile informal tourism ethnography tourism studies voluntary tourism reciprocity refugees in India human geography- Kapitel Ausklappen | EinklappenSeiten
- 55–96 Chapter 2: The World Map as Seen from the Peripheries: The Tourist as an Object of Gaze 55–96
- 245–260 Conclusions 245–260
- 261–290 References 261–290
- 291–298 Index 291–298
- 299–300 About the Author 299–300