Stuck with Tourism(English, Hardcover, Cordoba Azcarate Matilde)

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Stuck with Tourism(English, Hardcover, Cordoba Azcarate Matilde) is written by Cordoba Azcarate Matilde and published by University of California Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0520344480 (ISBN 10) and 9780520344488 (ISBN 13).

Tourism has become one of the most powerful forces organizing the predatory geographies of late capitalism. It creates entangled futures of exploitation and dependence, extracting resources and labor, and eclipsing other ways of doing, living, and imagining life. And yet, tourism also creates jobs, encourages infrastructure development, and in many places inspires the only possibility of hope and well-being. Stuck with Tourism explores the ambivalent nature of tourism by drawing on ethnographic evidence from the Mexican Yucatan Peninsula, a region voraciously transformed by tourism development over the past forty years. Contrasting labor and lived experiences at the beach resorts of Cancun, protected natural enclaves along the Gulf coast, historical buildings of the colonial past, and maquilas for souvenir production in the Maya heartland, this book explores the moral, political, ecological, and everyday dilemmas that emerge when, as Yucatan's inhabitants put it, people get stuck in tourism's grip.