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By recognizing tourism as a profound social force, this book engages with notions of power and perspectives of wellness in tourism and contested conceptualizations of tourism spaces and places for wellness.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Black Female Cultural Safety in tebrakunna country: What is Wellness for Us? by Emma Lee
Chapter 2: Exploring Local Languages Use in Community-Based Tourism Settings in Haida Gwaii (British Columbia, Canada) by Kelly Whitney-Gould, Pamela Wright, Anna Carr, and Jason (Gaagwiis) Alsop
Chapter 3: Blogging for Researcher Wellbeing in a Study of South African Township Tourism by Meghan Muldoon
Chapter 4: Let Them be Heard: The Emotional Performances of Enslaved Narratives at United States Plantation Sites by Stefanie Benjamin
Chapter 5: Caring for Animal Welfare: Volunteer Tourists and Captive-Elephant Wellbeing in Thailand by Madyson Taylor, Bryan S. R. Grimwood, and Karla Boluk
Chapter 6: Retreat and Freedom at the Canadian Cottage: An Early Feminist Story by Julia Harrison
Chapter 7: Family Travel in the US: Attitudes and Barriers to Family Wellbeing by Lynn Minnaert
Chapter 8: Wellness Through Everyday Place-Sharing: The Emotional Geographies of Migrant Family Travel Back 'Home' to Cyprus by Kelley A. McClinchey
Chapter 9: Making Love on the Farm: The Shambhala Music Festival by Nataliya Kiyan and Kellee Caton
Chapter 10: Community Wellbeing Between Climate Risk and Tourism Development: Contradictions on the Shore of the St. Lawrence Estuary by Coralie Lebon and Dominic Lapointe
About the author
Dr. Heather Mair is an Assistant Professor in the Recreation and Leisure Studies Department, University of Waterloo, Canada. Dr. Mairâ??s research focuses on the challenges and opportunities presented by tourism development in rural Canada. She has authored numerous publications in tourism and leisure studies with a particular focus on community-based tourism planning and development, leisure and volunteer activists, the (social) role of curling clubs in rural Canadian life and the need for enhanced critical and theoretical approaches to leisure and tourism research.Dr. Heather Mair is an Assistant Professor in the Recreation and Leisure Studies Department, University of Waterloo, Canada. Dr. Mairâ??s research focuses on the challenges and opportunities presented by tourism development in rural Canada. She has authored numerous publications in tourism and leisure studies with a particular focus on community-based tourism planning and development, leisure and volunteer activists, the (social) role of curling clubs in rural Canadian life and the need for enhanced critical and theoretical approaches to leisure and tourism research.
Summary
By recognizing tourism as a profound social force, this book engages with notions of power and perspectives of wellness in tourism and the contested conceptualizations of tourism spaces and places for wellness.
