Toxic Tourism by Phaedra C Pezzullo
For many decades, the environmental justice movement has offered toxic tours, non-commercial trips intended to highlight people and locales polluted by poisonous chemicals. This title examines these tours as a tactic of resistance and for their potential in reducing the cultural and physical distance between hosts and visitors.
Pezzullo's topic and approach are as fresh as her subject matter is fetid... Her exposure of corporate cooptation of environmentalism ('astroturfing') is eloquent.... Pezzullo throws the political work of the tour into sharp relief, not merely toxic tours, but potentially all tours. This is excellent work because it points to the possibility of a more active and engaged type of tourism as opposed to a passive and alienated one. - Dean MacCannell, author of The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class A very stimulating read. I find myself wanting to bring Toxic Tourism up in conversations.... I can't think of another book that presents the modified ethnographic approach used by Pezzullo so explicitly. It would be a wonderful textbook for a graduate course in qualitative research methods. - Tarla Peterson, author of Sharing the Earth: The Rhetoric of Sustainable Development
Phaedra C. Pezzullo is Assistant Professor of Communication and Culture at Indiana University and coeditor, with Ronald Sandler, of Environmental Justice and Environmentalism: The Social Justice Challenge to the Environmental Movement.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780817315504 |
| ISBN 10 | 0817315500 |
| Title | Toxic Tourism |
| Author | Phaedra C Pezzullo |
| Series | Rhetoric Culture And Social Critique Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | The University of Alabama Press |
| Year published | 2007-06-30 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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