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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Pezzullo, Phaedra C. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2007.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: A Challenge; 1. Tourist Itineraries; 2. Toxic Baggage; 3. Sites and Sacralization; 4. Cancer and Co-optation; 5. Identification and Imagined Communities; Conclusion: All the Time in the World; Epilogue: And the Struggles Continue ... ; Appendix: Contact Information for Advocacy Groups; Notes; Bibliography; Index. 
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