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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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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
2007.
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.