Mobilities and enclosures after Seattle: politicizing borders in a “Borderless” world

Cunningham, Hilary

doi:10.1007/s10624-009-9110-0

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“…Suspicions of terrorism and immigration by 'less desirables' have reignited processes of 'securitisation' (Cunningham, 2007) in the contemporary crisis-laden world.…”

Section: Constellations Of Long-haul International Tourism From the Ementioning

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A mobilities approach to tourism from emerging world regions

Cohen

2014

Current Issues in Tourism

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Increasing numbers of people from the emerging world regions, Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East engage in tourism practices at domestic, intra-regional and long-haul international scales. In this article we deploy an innovative application of the mobilities approach, which we argue moves beyond the Eurocentrism implicit in modernist tourism studies, in a comparative analysis of tourism in and from these regions and those in the 'West'. Our analysis opens up the systematic study of tourism in emerging world regions in terms of the mobilities paradigm, and concludes: one, travel had a multiplicity of origins in societies in the emerging regions, but most did not possess an equivalent emic term to 'tourism.' Two, tourism at domestic and intraregional levels tends to be entangled with other discretionary mobilities, whereas the long-haul level is more differentiated. Three, the development of domestic discretionary travel in emerging regions can be represented by four overlapping 'mobility constellations'. Four, there are significant historical differences between the regions in their long-haul mobility constellations, although their kinetic hierarchies are all still steep. Five, forms of movement and associated practices of discretionary travellers from the emerging regions and Western countries became increasingly similar under the impact of socio-technological, economic and cultural globalisation. Six, differences between the emerging regions, particularly Asia, and the West are most salient on the emic level of representations of international travel: the specific cultural motive forces for tourism do not centre on authenticity-seeking, but are instead bound up with prestige and markers of modernity.

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“…Suspicions of terrorism and immigration by 'less desirables' have reignited processes of 'securitisation' (Cunningham, 2007) in the contemporary crisis-laden world.…”

Section: Constellations Of Long-haul International Tourism From the Ementioning

confidence: 99%

A mobilities approach to tourism from emerging world regions

Cohen

2014

Current Issues in Tourism

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“…As far as tourism is concerned, perhaps the most concrete example of a counter trend is the world-wide tendency towards securitization (Cunningham 2007), following the September 11 attack on the US. This trend is motivated primarily by the threat of trans-national terrorism (particularly in the US), but also by the suspicions that foreigners might avail themselves of tourism as a ruse for illegal immigration (particularly in Europe).…”

Section: Obstacles To Mobilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Globalization, Global Crises and Tourism

Cohen¹

2012

Tourism Recreation Research

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This article focuses on the consequences of the contemporary global crises on the global, and, more specifically, the Asian tourism system. The effects of the economic slow-down in Western countries on the rate of growth and the shape of the global tourism system are discussed. From a broader perspective, the possible implications for tourism of the growing barriers to globalized flows and of the current protests against the prevailing Western politicoeconomic policies, as well as of the emergent anti-consumerist movements, are scrutinized. In conclusion, the need to re-think some long-range tourism policies in non-Western, particularly Asian, countries is stressed. GlobalizationGlobalization has brought about the elimination of barriers, economic, political and cultural, to the free flow of people, goods, capital, information, communication and lifestyles on a world-wide scale. It has facilitated a radical contraction of space I time processes, diminished the role of ''bounded" territorial entities, such as states, and given rise to the emergence of de-territorialized organizations, such as international companies, global finandal institutions, and trans-national political frameworks.Globalization has engendered visions of the disappearance of the nation state as a political framework ERIK COHEN is Professor Emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel and lives at 61/149 Prasert

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“…The interrelations between borders and geopolitics has received attention from several perspectives, including securitisation (e.g. Cunningham, 2009;Huysmans, 2006;R. Jones & Johnson, 2016), embodied (e.g.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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“…Certain forms of border‐crossing such as trade and tourism are often supported while in particular irregular migration – i.e., migration outside of formally regulated channels – is impeded, often very actively and even in militarised fashion, in many borderlands. As such, current selective bordering practices such as those introduced above are not simply last‐ditch attempts of nation‐states to cling to their regulatory role (Brown, 2010; Cunningham, 2009). They are active, historically produced political‐economic strategies underpinned by discourses on whose border‐crossings are legitimate (Bianchi et al, 2020) to reinvent and, hence, continue the role of nation‐states as the main regulatory format in globalising neoliberal societies (Beurskens & Miggelbrink, 2017; Jones & Johnson, 2016).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%