Encounters Across Difference - Tourism and Overcoming Subalternity in India

In Encounters across Difference, Natalia Bloch examines tourism encounters in India and their potential to empower subaltern communities. Drawing on ethnographic evidence in Hampi and Dharamshala, Bloch explores the potential of tourism to promote political engagement, volunteering, sponsorship, local entrepreneurship, and women's empowerment.

List of 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

About the author

By Natalia Bloch - Translated by Katarzyna Bylów

Product details

• Authors: Natalia Bloch
• Assisted by: Katarzyna Bylow (Translation), Katarzyna Bylów (Translation)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9781793624710
• ISBN: 978-1-79362-471-0
• No. of pages: 314
• Series: The Anthropology of Tourism: Heritage, Mobility, and Society; Anthropology of Tourism: Herit
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Hospitality industry, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Refugees, India, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Refugees and political asylum, Tourism industry, Refugees & Political Asylum, Hospitality, sports, leisure and tourism industries