Encounters across Difference
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Encounters across Difference

Tourism and Overcoming Subalternity in India

  1. 315 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Encounters across Difference

Tourism and Overcoming Subalternity in India

About this book

In Encounters across Difference, Natalia Bloch examines tourism encounters in the informal sector 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 the 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.
For more information, check out A Conversation with Natalia Bloch, author of Encounters across Difference: Tourism and Overcoming Subalternity in India.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication
  7. Preface
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction: Anthropology and Tourism: Dangerous Liaisons?
  10. Chapter 1: In a Circle of Mobility: Field Sites, Research Partners, Methods
  11. Chapter 2: The World Map as Seen from the Peripheries: The Tourist as an Object of Gaze
  12. Chapter 3: Not-So-Empty Meeting Grounds: Self-Representations and Relationships
  13. Chapter 4: Recovering the Subaltern Voices: Tourism and Engagement
  14. Chapter 5: Tourism as a Source of Individual Empowerment: Stories of Encounter
  15. Conclusions
  16. References
  17. Index
  18. About the Author