Justice, Power, and Mobility in Tourism: In Search of Ethical Encounters

This book offers a critical and justice-oriented examination of tourism’s complex impacts, revealing how it shapes and is shaped by economic, social, gender, environmental, animal, and racial (in)justices. It explores pathways toward more equitable and transformative practices for communities and environments.

The book examines a mosaic of international research on issues of justice and power in tourism. Offering a critical and justice-oriented perspective, it seeks to develop a deep and critical understanding of not only how tourism interacts with injustices but also how it perpetuates various forms of (in)justice, beyond the purely economic- and marketing-driven view of tourism. Anchored in the critical tourism studies, the book is building on a diversity of perspectives and a rich array of theoretical and disciplinary frameworks to challenge conventional point of view on power dynamics and subsequent (in)justice issues associated with tourism. With illustrative case studies from different parts of the world, it leads the readers to build reflexivity and critical engagement for thoughtful research, theories, and practices in tourism.

This book is aimed at graduate studies students and professors interested in a critically oriented, justice-based understanding of tourism as a global phenomenon. It will also offer a varied perspective on the complexity of tourism and its multidisciplinary weaving with geographies, societies, and philosophies to all tourism scholars.

Dominic Lapointe is a professor in the Department of Urban and Tourism Studies at Université du Québec à Montréal. He holds the Chaire adaptation climat tourisme Québec at L’Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), and he is the head of Téoros, the oldest French-language tourism studies journal. His work explores the production of tourism space and its role in the capitalist system expansion and its biopolitical dimensions. Its latest research looks at climate change, social innovations, dwelling, and critical perspective in tourism studies.

Michela J. Stinson completed her PhD in the Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies at the University of Waterloo. She is interested in how stories, objects, and affects are ordered to maintain political and structural formations like nationalism and settler colonialism in tourism places. Her current work thinks through relations of land, public memory, infrastructure, and ruination in the city of Niagara Falls, Ontario.

Meghan L. Muldoon is an assistant professor of Sustainable Tourism and Society at the University of Groningen’s Campus Fryslân in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands, where she teaches courses in tourism, culture, and planning, gendered geographies, and arts-based methodologies for decolonizing research. Her research interests include the intersections of tourism and poverty, decolonization, feminisms, digital discourses, representations of indigeneity, and arts-based methodologies.

Bryan S. R. Grimwood is a professor in the Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies at the University of Waterloo, Canada. His research examines ethical and political dimensions of tourism, leisure, and cultural livelihoods.