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Encounters across Difference: Tourism and Overcoming Subalternity in India
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.
Author/Editor
Natalia Bloch
Publisher
Lexington Books
ISBN
978-1-7936-2471-0
Publication date
1 Jan 2021 – 31 Dec 2021
Specialisation
Social Sciences
Theme
Society
Region
Global Asia (Asia and other parts of the World)
South Asia
India