Encounters across Difference
Tourism and Overcoming Subalternity in India
1st Edition
Published on 7. May 2021
314 pages
978-1-9787-9087-2 (ISBN)
Description
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.
For more information, check out A Conversation with Natalia Bloch, author of Encounters across Difference: Tourism and Overcoming Subalternity in India.
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Natalia Bloch is associate professor in the Institute of Anthropology and Ethnology at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan
Content
Introduction: Anthropology and Tourism: Dangerous Liaisons?
Chapter 1. In a Circle of Mobility: Field Sites, Research Partners, Methods
Chapter 2. The World Map as Seen from the Peripheries: Tourist as an Object of Gaze
Chapter 3. Not-So-Empty Meeting Grounds: Self-Representations and Relationships
Chapter 4. Recovering the Subaltern Voices: Tourism and Engagement
Chapter 5. Tourism as a Source of Individual Empowerment: Stories of Encounter
Chapter 1. In a Circle of Mobility: Field Sites, Research Partners, Methods
Chapter 2. The World Map as Seen from the Peripheries: Tourist as an Object of Gaze
Chapter 3. Not-So-Empty Meeting Grounds: Self-Representations and Relationships
Chapter 4. Recovering the Subaltern Voices: Tourism and Engagement
Chapter 5. Tourism as a Source of Individual Empowerment: Stories of Encounter
