Introduction: Tourism and Citizenship - Points of Departure 1. Travelling through Citizenship: From Social Rights to the Consumer Society 2. Beyond the Border: Travel Mobilities and the Foundations of Global Citizenship 3.Tourism, Mobility Entitlements and the Condition of Freedom 4.Licensed to Travel: State Power, Freedom of Movement and the Right to Travel 5.Tourism, Politics and the Battlegrounds of Cosmopolitan Citizenship 6.Tourism as a ‘Force for Good’?: Ethical Travel, Civil Society and Global Citizenship Conclusion: Thinking Through Global Reconfigurations of Tourism and Citizenship
Raoul V. Bianchi is Principal Lecturer in
International Tourism at the University of East London. He has
published widely on the political economy of international tourism
and has a particular interest in exploring the intersections
between politics, the economy and civil society, within a variety
of tourism contexts. He has conducted research on tourism
development, sustainable tourism, World Heritage and urban
cultural heritage, primarily in the Mediterranean and the Canary
Islands.
Marcus L. Stephenson is an Associate Professor of Tourism
Management at Middlesex University Dubai (United Arab
Emirates). He has published extensively on the sociology of
tourism, especially in relation aspects of race, ethnicity,
nationality, culture and religion. Marcus has also conducted
tourism-based research in the Caribbean, Middle East, Tanzania and
the UK. He is currently researching socialist models of tourism
development in a range of destination contexts.
"Tourism and Citizenship is a welcome and much needed scholarly
intervention into the complex relationships between global
mobility, human rights and travelling cultures. Bianchi and
Stephenson do an excellent job bringing together interdisciplinary
insights and putting them to work in an exciting and broad-ranging
study that does not shy away from difficult and pressing political
concerns. Indeed, central to this book is an important
interrogation of how the supposedly inclusive values of freedom,
rights, and cosmopolitanism often reproduce entrenched asymmetries
in the global order. This book will be essential reading for
students and scholars in Geography, Politics, Law and International
Relations who are seeking to expose global power relations in
unexpected places, but it will also be indispensable for Tourism
Studies scholars asking important ethical and political questions
that exceed traditional concerns about economic growth and
expansion." - Dr. Debbie Lisle, School of Politics, International
Studies & Philosophy, Queen's University Belfast
"This book provides the first full-scale examination of the
contradictory market and political forces that shape the "freedom
to travel" today. The authors conceptually map movements of
international tourists, migrants, refugees, and "illegals" onto
emerging geo-political realities of hyper inequality both within
and between nations, the dramatic reversal of fortune of a number
of formerly "third world" economies, terrorism, and new forms of
travel restriction. They challenge axiomatic assumptions about
positive psychic, cultural and economic benefits of tourism and the
relationship of increasing tourism to democratization,
international understanding, and world peace. A number of
unpleasant facts about current global travel patterns appear all
the more clearly as they are bathed in the bright light of the
drive to make unrestricted international travel a universal human
right."- Professor Dean MacCannell, Environmental Design and
Landscape Architecture, University of California, Davis"...we
strongly recommend the book to tourism scholars, students and all
those interested in knowing more about the unfolding relationship
between tourism and notions of citizenship, all the more so for the
opportunity of raising a much needed debate." – Inge Hermann and
Ruud Welten, European Journal of Tourism Research
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