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Re-Centering Women in Tourism: Anti-Colonial Feminist Studies addresses tourism as simultaneously empowering women and reproducing colonial hierarchies. This volume contributes to conversations on the engagement of women in tourism by centering women's multivalent lived experiences-as hosts, liaisons, vendors, performers, producers, and consumers-in tourism projects. Examining eco-tourism, craft production, and food tourism initiatives, the contributors embrace the building of new knowledge and advocate for change. By centering women and their experiences through epistemological lenses that encompass colonial histories and economics, this collection reframes the very presuppositions on which tourism initiatives are based and helps imagine sustainable and regenerative alternatives.
For more information, check out A Conversation with Frances Julia Riemer, Editor of Re-Centering Women in Tourism: Anti-Colonial Feminist Studies
About the author
Frances Julia Riemer is professor of educational foundations and associate faculty and director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at Northern Arizona University.A. Lynn Bolles is professor emerita of The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, and past president of the Caribbean Studies Association.Frances Julia Riemer is professor of educational foundations and associate faculty and director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at Northern Arizona University.
Summary
Re-Centering Women in Tourism addresses tourism as simultaneously empowering women and reproducing colonial hierarchies. By centering women’s multivalent lived experiences in tourism projects, this collection reframes the very presuppositions on which tourism initiatives are based and helps imagine sustainable and regenerative alternatives.
