{"title":"Stuck with tourism: space, power and labor in contemporary Yucatán","authors":"M. Korstanje","doi":"10.1080/14766825.2022.2156662","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"evolution of the modern tourism industry is marked by technological breakthroughs that accelerates travel timeframes worldwide. A closer look reveals that the industry causes social maladies ranging from asymmetric inter-class labor relations to real estate speculation, as well as acculturation processes, which show little signs of abating. In her new book titled Stuck with Tourism , Matilde Cordoba-Azcárate explores the inequalities, social problems and inter-class con fl icts that mass tourism generates in Cancún, Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico. Consisting of four chapters, it is derived from her ethnographic research conducted in Yucatán from 2002 to 2016, where she had the opportunity to witness dramatic shifts in the destination. She argues that, while tourism a ff ects traditional social relations, it somehow ignites new hopes and spaces of social uplifting for locals who have been historically displaced from the formal economy","PeriodicalId":46712,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2000,"publicationDate":"2022-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change","FirstCategoryId":"91","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14766825.2022.2156662","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
evolution of the modern tourism industry is marked by technological breakthroughs that accelerates travel timeframes worldwide. A closer look reveals that the industry causes social maladies ranging from asymmetric inter-class labor relations to real estate speculation, as well as acculturation processes, which show little signs of abating. In her new book titled Stuck with Tourism , Matilde Cordoba-Azcárate explores the inequalities, social problems and inter-class con fl icts that mass tourism generates in Cancún, Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico. Consisting of four chapters, it is derived from her ethnographic research conducted in Yucatán from 2002 to 2016, where she had the opportunity to witness dramatic shifts in the destination. She argues that, while tourism a ff ects traditional social relations, it somehow ignites new hopes and spaces of social uplifting for locals who have been historically displaced from the formal economy
期刊介绍:
Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change ( JTCC ) is a peer-reviewed, transdisciplinary and transnational journal. It focuses on critically examining the relationships, tensions, representations, conflicts and possibilities that exist between tourism/travel and culture/cultures in an increasingly complex global context. JTCC provides a forum for debate against the backdrop of local, regional, national and transnational understandings of identity and difference. Economic restructuring, recognitions of the cultural dimension of biodiversity and sustainable development, contests regarding the positive and negative impact of patterns of tourist behaviour on cultural diversity, and transcultural strivings - all provide an important focus for JTCC . Global capitalism, in its myriad forms engages with multiple ''ways of being'', generating new relationships, re-evaluating existing, and challenging ways of knowing and being. Tourists and the tourism industry continue to find inventive ways to commodify, transform, present/re-present and consume material culture. JTCC seeks to widen and deepen understandings of such changing relationships and stimulate critical debate by: -Adopting a multidisciplinary approach -Encouraging deep and critical approaches to policy and practice -Embracing an inclusive definition of culture -Focusing on the concept, processes and meanings of change -Encouraging trans-national/transcultural perspectives