Toxic Tourism : Rhetorics of Pollution, Travel, and Environmental Justice /
The first book length study of the environmental justice movement, tourism, and the links between race, class, and waste. Tourism is at once both a beloved pastime and a denigrated form of popular culture. Romanticized for its promise of pleasure, tourism is also potentially toxic, enabling the dead...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
2007.
©2007 |
Colección: | Albma Rhetoric Cult & Soc Crit.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | The first book length study of the environmental justice movement, tourism, and the links between race, class, and waste. Tourism is at once both a beloved pastime and a denigrated form of popular culture. Romanticized for its promise of pleasure, tourism is also potentially toxic, enabling the deadly exploitation of the cultures and environments visited. For many decades, the environmental justice movement has offered -toxic tours, - non-commercial trips intended to highlight people and locales polluted by poisonous chemicals. Out of these efforts and their popular reception, a new understanding of democratic participation inenvironmental decision-making has begun to arise. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (280 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-250) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780817388553 0817388559 |