| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 275 pages) : illustrations, photographs |
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Contemporary geographies of leisure, tourism and mobility ; 39 |
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Routledge studies in contemporary geographies of leisure, tourism, and mobility ; 39.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title Information; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Prologue: Envisioning Peace Tourism; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Peace Matters, Tourism Matters; Part I: Peace Matters to Tourism (Issues); 1 A Pedagogy of Peace: The Tourism Potential; 2 Peace (Tourism) as Critical Ecological Democracy; 3 Can "a" Culture of Peace be Exploitative? An Environmental Justice Perspective on Peace Through Tourism; 4 Tourism as Politics: The Case of Palestine; 5 Tourism Concern: Putting Human Rights Principles into Practice |
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6 Peace Tourism in Timor-Leste: Human Security Through International CitizenshipPart II: Tourism Matters to Peace (Case Studies); 7 Mount Kumgang: A Case of Promoting Peace Through Tourism or a Meaningless Distraction?; 8 Of Peoples and Places: Tourism and Zones of Conflict in India; 9 The Floating Peace Village: An Experiment in Nonviolence; 10 Awareness-Raising and Global Citizenship Through Peace Tourism: Case Studies of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; 11 An Experiment with Tourism: Educating for Social and EcologicalJustice in Australia; 12 Religiosity and Volunteer Tourism in Kenya |
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13 Aboriginal Hostels Limited: A Case of Peace Through Tourism in Australia14 Peace Activism in Tourism: Two Case Studies (and a Few Reflections) in Jerusalem; 15 Touchdown Tours: The Business of Peace Tourism; Part III: Palestine Matters (to Peace and Tourism); 16 The Struggle for Justice Through Tourism in Palestine; 17 The Pilgrimages for Transformation Project: Shaping a Tourism for Peacewith Justice; Conclusion; Epilogue: Creating a Peace Tourism Commission of IPRA; Index |
| Summary |
Peace through tourism refers to a body of analysis which suggests tourism may contribute to cross-cultural understanding, tolerance and even peace between communities and nations. What has been largely missing to date is a sustained critique of the potential and capacities of tourism to foster global peace. This timely volume fills this void, by providing a critical look at tourism in order to ascertain its potential as a social force to promote human rights, justice and peace. It presents an alternative characterisation of the possibilities for peace through tourism: embedding an und |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Tourism -- Social aspects
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Tourism -- Political aspects
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Peace-building.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Peace-building
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Tourism -- Political aspects
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Tourism -- Social aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Blanchard, Lynda-ann.
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Higgins-Desbiolles, Freya.
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| ISBN |
9781135939663 |
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1135939667 |
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9780203370384 |
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0203370384 |
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9781135939809 |
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1135939802 |
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9781135939731 |
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113593973X |
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9780415824637 |
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041582463X |
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9781138081888 |
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1138081884 |
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