Full Description
In Encounters across Difference, Natalia Bloch examines tourism encounters in India and their potential to empower subaltern communities. Drawing from ethnographic evidence in Hampi and Dharamshala, Bloch explores the potential of tourism to promote political engagement, volunteering, sponsorship, local entrepreneurship, and women's empowerment. Contrary to frequent criticism of tourism to the Global South as a colonial practice, Bloch argues that workers and small entrepreneurs in displaced communities see tourists as allies in their political struggles and, on a more individual level, as an opportunity to build better lives.
Contents
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
