Natalia Bloch

Encounters across Difference

Tourism and Overcoming Subalternity in India

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Produktbeschreibung

In Encounters across Difference, Natalia Bloch examines tourism encounters in India and their potential to empower subaltern communities. Drawing on ethnographic evidence in Hampi and Dharamshala, Bloch explores the potential of tourism to promote political engagement, volunteering, sponsorship, local entrepreneurship, and women’s empowerment.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 608g
• ISBN-13: 9781793624710
• ISBN-10: 1793624712
• Artikelnr.: 61147722

Autorenporträt

By Natalia Bloch - Translated by Katarzyna Bylów

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Anthropology and Tourism: Dangerous Liaisons?
Chapter 1. In a Circle of Mobility: Field Sites, Research Partners, Methods
Chapter 2. The World Map as Seen from the Peripheries: Tourist as an Object
of Gaze
Chapter 3. Not-So-Empty Meeting Grounds: Self-Representations and
Relationships
Chapter 4. Recovering the Subaltern Voices: Tourism and Engagement
Chapter 5. Tourism as a Source of Individual Empowerment: Stories of
Encounter