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Author Córdoba Azcárate, Matilde, author.

Title Stuck with tourism space, power, and labor in contemporary Yucatan Matilde Córdoba Azcárate
Published Oakland, California University of California Press [2020]
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Description 1 online resource illustrations, maps
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Beach Enclosures -- 2. Wild Hotspots -- 3. Colonial Enclaves -- 4. City-Village -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index
Summary Tourism has become one of the most powerful forces organizing the predatory geographies of late capitalism. It creates entangled futures of exploitation and dependence, extracting resources and labor, and eclipsing other ways of doing, living, and imagining life. And yet, tourism also creates jobs, encourages infrastructure development, and in many places inspires the only possibility of hope and well-being. Stuck with Tourism explores the ambivalent nature of tourism by drawing on ethnographic evidence from the Mexican Yucatán Peninsula, a region voraciously transformed by tourism development
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
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Subject Tourism -- Social aspects -- Yucatán Peninsula
Tourism -- Mexico -- Yucatán (State)
Tourism -- Yucatán Peninsula
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Tourism -- Social aspects
Tourism
Central America -- Yucatán Peninsula
Mexico -- Yucatán (State)
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0520975553
9780520975552