Political Tourism and its Texts

Moynagh, Maureen

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“…I am indebted to Maureen Moynagh's observations about this connection in MacCannell's work. See Moynagh (2008). 4.…”

Section: Tourism and Nation-buildingmentioning

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Tourism, Nation-Building, and Magazines

Lindsay

2018

Magazines, Tourism, and Nation-Building in Mexico

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In two sections, this chapter examines, first, the correspondence between tourism and nation-building in conceptual and material terms and, second, the magazine as a paradigmatic expression in print culture of that concurrence. The first section, drawing on recent scholarship in tourism and Latin American studies, situates the book's focus on Mexico within the country's remarkable emergence from the Revolution during the 1920s and onwards, contextualizing that significant juncture within the history of organized tourism there since the late nineteenth century to the present day. The second section, drawing on examples from the book's corpus of magazines, elucidates the unparalleled properties of the periodical as an object of study within those contexts and considers ensuing methodological issues. Keywords Tourism • Revolution • Nation-building • Modernity • Mexico • Magazines • Consumerism • Archive • Methodology This chapter considers the cultural, historical, and methodological contexts that are at the heart of this book's enquiry. It provides an essential frame of reference for the chapters that follow and offers a timely intervention into current methodological debates in periodical studies. In two sections, the chapter examines, first, the correspondence between tourism and nation-building in conceptual and material terms and, second, CHAPTER 2 Tourism, Nation-Building, and Magazines

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“…I am indebted to Maureen Moynagh's observations about this connection in MacCannell's work. See Moynagh (2008). 4.…”

Section: Tourism and Nation-buildingmentioning

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Tourism, Nation-Building, and Magazines

Lindsay

2018

Magazines, Tourism, and Nation-Building in Mexico

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“…Critical tourism studies also critique this form of emotional response, which may primarily manifest in additional consumerist self-performances, such as through fair trade purchasing or inefficient international aid (Vrasti 2011;Mahrouse 2011). Where affect displaces politics, it situates the significance of mobility within volunteers' emotions, as biographical ornament; the kind of locus of desire and identity construction described characteristic of many testimonial modes of politically-motivated travel writing (Moynagh 2008). However, even Mostafanezhad's critical interpretation of this tendency suggests a potential for disruption, for an alternative aesthetics 'that addresses rather than overshadows the structural foundations of global economic inequality ' (2013: 162).…”

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International solidarity, volunteer tourism and travel writing: Mexico and Central America in Spanish and English

Hanley

2019

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This article discusses the intersection of ethnographic, reflexive and anecdotal styles in travel writing produced out of contemporary international volunteer tourism, and analyses the impact of volunteer tourism on the production of a narrating subject and on the representation of host communities. The comparison of a primary work in Spanish (Herminia Esteban's 2004 Un viaje solidario) with one in English (Cate Kennedy's 2005 Sing, and Don't Cry) allows us to better understand the specific historical, cultural and linguistic dimensions of different routes and encounters, as well as travel writing's potential -and its limitations -in expressing a broader critique of global inequality. The texts are analysed to foreground the quotidian aspects of mobility and degree of authorial transparency regarding the terms under which volunteer activities take place. Extending from this analysis of the authors' reflexivity, awareness and expression of critical engagement, the article explores the nature of representation in the narration of encounters between privilege and poverty, and frames these in relation to the ethical dimensions of contemporary practices of solidarity-based volunteer travel.

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“…One of the central issues for slum tourism research is to better understand these specific conditionsfor example, by highlighting commonalities between specific cases. A commonality I would like to focus on in this chapter is the role of politically motivated travellers, or what has been called "political tourists" (Frenzel 2009;Babb 2004;Brin 2006;Henderson 2007;Moynagh 2008) or "justice tourists" (Scheyvens 2002;Pezzullo 2007). While there is no set definition of political tourists, it broadly describes people who travel for political purposes or out of political interests.…”

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Beyond ‘Othering’: the political roots of slum tourism

Frenzel¹

2012

Slum Tourism

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The occurrence of organized forms of slum tourism in at least two cities of the global South has been linked to large-scale political events, involving thousands of political travellers. Rio de Janeiro"s favela tours are said to have originated in the 1992 Rio Earth Summit (Freie Medeiros 2009) while Nairobi"s Kibera Tours originated in tours taken by attendees of the 2007 World Social Forum (Mowforth & Munt 2009). Township tourism in South Africa was preceded by politically motivated "struggle junkies" who visited townships in support of the resistance of black South Africans against the apartheid regime. This indicates the particular role of mobile political activists in the creation of slum tourism as an organized tourist practice. Moreover, these cases seem to indicate a development pattern of slum tourism destinations, which could help explain the process through which they come about. In this chapter I situate slum tourism in the wider realm of the political tourism that arguably triggered its development. As mobile political activists visit slums they often intend political transformations of the slum and attempt to create networks of solidarity with the visited slum dwellers. Does this political nature of the visits survive in the development of slum tourism in the given destinations? By looking at the links between slum tourism and political tourism, this chapter addresses the ethical concerns central to slum-tourism reflections.

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Political Tourism and its Texts

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Tourism, Nation-Building, and Magazines

Tourism, Nation-Building, and Magazines

International solidarity, volunteer tourism and travel writing: Mexico and Central America in Spanish and English

Beyond ‘Othering’: the political roots of slum tourism

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