Justice, Power, and Mobility in Tourism
In Search of Ethical Encounters
1st Edition
Published on 13. February 2026
340 pages
978-1-040-73240-3 (ISBN)
Description
This book offers a critical and justice-oriented examination of tourism's complex impacts, revealing how it shapes and is shaped by economic, social, gender, environmental, animal, and racial (in)justices. It explores pathways towards more equitable and transformative practices for communities and environments.
The book examines a mosaic of international research on issues of justice and power in tourism. Offering a critical and justice-oriented perspective, it seeks to develop a deep and critical understanding of how tourism interacts with injustices, but also how it perpetuates various forms of (in)justice, beyond the purely economic and marketing driven view of tourism. Anchored in the critical tourism studies, the book is building on a diversity of perspectives and a rich array of theoretical and disciplinary framework to challenge conventional point of view on power dynamics and subsequent (in)justice issues associated with tourism. With illustrative case studies from different part of the world, it leads the readers to build reflexivity and critical engagement for a thoughtful research, theories and practices in tourism.
This book is aimed at graduate studies students and professors interested in a critically oriented justice base understanding of tourism as a global phenomenon. It will also offer a varied perspective on the complexity of tourism, its multidisciplinary weaving with geographies, societies and philosophies to all tourism scholars.
The book examines a mosaic of international research on issues of justice and power in tourism. Offering a critical and justice-oriented perspective, it seeks to develop a deep and critical understanding of how tourism interacts with injustices, but also how it perpetuates various forms of (in)justice, beyond the purely economic and marketing driven view of tourism. Anchored in the critical tourism studies, the book is building on a diversity of perspectives and a rich array of theoretical and disciplinary framework to challenge conventional point of view on power dynamics and subsequent (in)justice issues associated with tourism. With illustrative case studies from different part of the world, it leads the readers to build reflexivity and critical engagement for a thoughtful research, theories and practices in tourism.
This book is aimed at graduate studies students and professors interested in a critically oriented justice base understanding of tourism as a global phenomenon. It will also offer a varied perspective on the complexity of tourism, its multidisciplinary weaving with geographies, societies and philosophies to all tourism scholars.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
5 Tables, black and white; 11 Line drawings, black and white; 16 Halftones, black and white; 27 Illustrations, black and white
File size
4,94 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-040-73240-3 (9781040732403)
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Dominic Lapointe | Michela Stinson | Meghan Muldoon
Justice, Power, and Mobility in Tourism
In Search of Ethical Encounters
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approx. 02/2026
1st Edition
Routledge
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Persons
Dominic Lapointe is a professor in the Department of Urban and Tourism Studies at Universite du Quebec a Montreal. He holds the Chaire adaptation climat tourisme quebec at UQAM and he is the head of Teoros, the oldest French language tourism studies journal. His work explores the production of tourism space and its role in the capitalist system expansion and its biopolitical dimensions. Its latest research looks at climate change, social innovations, dwelling and critical perspective in tourism studies.
Michela J. Stinson completed her PhD at the University of Waterloo in the Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies. She is interested in how stories, objects, and affects are ordered to maintain political and structural formations like nationalism and settler colonialism in tourism places. Her current work thinks through relations of land, public memory, infrastructure, and ruination in the city of Niagara Falls, Ontario
Meghan L. Muldoon is an Assistant Professor of Sustainable Tourism & Society at the University of Groningen's Campus Fryslan in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands, where she teaches courses in tourism, culture, and planning, gendered geographies, and arts-based methodologies for decolonizing research. Her research interests include the intersections of tourism and poverty, decolonization, feminisms, digital discourses, representations of Indigeneity, and arts-based methodologies.
Bryan S. R. Grimwood is a Professor in the Department of Recreation and leisure studies at the University of Waterloo, Canada. His research examines ethical and political dimensions of tourism, leisure, and cultural livelihoods.
Michela J. Stinson completed her PhD at the University of Waterloo in the Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies. She is interested in how stories, objects, and affects are ordered to maintain political and structural formations like nationalism and settler colonialism in tourism places. Her current work thinks through relations of land, public memory, infrastructure, and ruination in the city of Niagara Falls, Ontario
Meghan L. Muldoon is an Assistant Professor of Sustainable Tourism & Society at the University of Groningen's Campus Fryslan in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands, where she teaches courses in tourism, culture, and planning, gendered geographies, and arts-based methodologies for decolonizing research. Her research interests include the intersections of tourism and poverty, decolonization, feminisms, digital discourses, representations of Indigeneity, and arts-based methodologies.
Bryan S. R. Grimwood is a Professor in the Department of Recreation and leisure studies at the University of Waterloo, Canada. His research examines ethical and political dimensions of tourism, leisure, and cultural livelihoods.
Content
Introduction: Justice, Power, and Mobility in Tourism 1. Economic Impacts and the Tourism Workforce: A Justice Perspective 2. Tourism as a Spatial Solution and Social (In)Justice: The Process of Extensive and Concentrated Urbanization of Tourism in Sun and Beach Destinations on the Periphery of Capitalism 3. Land as an Issue of Peasant Resistance Against the Destination Ile a Vache Tourism Megaproject 4. Cooperation for Sustaining Tourism During Turbulent Times: A Study of Nature-Based Tourism Businesses in Alta, Northern Norway 5. Spain a Gogo: Grey, Green, and Golden Grabbing in Enclavic Mass Tourism Resorts 6. Gender, Fake Facts and Truth 7. Can LGBTQ Tourism Contribute to Improve LGBTQ Rights? 8. Embodying Place-Based Tourism in Lunenburg as Work 9. Social Justice and Sexual Violence Against Children in Mexican Tourist Destinations: A First Approach 10. "Regenerative Humanism": A Pathway to Justice and Gender Equality in Community-Led Rural Tourism 11. Gender and Tourism: On the Threshold to Nuanced, Complex, and Multiple Knowledges 12. Rethinking Animal Mobility Justice in Human Power-Geometries: A Theoretical Framework 13. Nature Guiding and Ethics in Tourism: More-Than-Human Encounters in Arctic Norway 14. Animals as Travellers: Posthuman Reflections on Animal Mobility and Justice in Tourism 15. Limiting Liminality: An Ethical Obligation to Animals in Tourism Supply Chains 16. Postcolonial Im/Mobilities: Youth Summer Camp Canoe Travel in Algonquin Provincial Park 17. Racialized Mobility and Tourism Justice in America: The Negro Motorist Green Book as Archive and Map 18. Race, Racism, & Premature Death
