Justice and Tourism

Research related to justice and tourism is at an early stage in tourism studies. Challenges abound due to the complex scope and scale of tourism, and thus the need to transcend disciplinary boundaries to inform a phenomenon that is intricately interwoven with place and people from local to global. The contributors to this book have drawn from diverse knowledge domains including but not limited to sociology, geography, business studies, urban planning and architecture, anthropology, philosophy and management studies, to inform their research.

From case-based empirical research to descriptive and theoretical approaches to justice and tourism, they tackle critical issues such as social justice and gender, discrimination and racism, minority and worker rights, indigenous, cultural and heritage justice (including special topics like food sovereignty), while post-humanistic perspectives that call us to attend to non-human others, to climate justice and sustainable futures. A rich array of principles is woven within and between the chapters. The various contributions illustrate the need for continuing collaboration among researchers in the Global North and Global South to enable diverse voices and worldviews to inform the pluralism of justice and tourism, as arises in this book.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Sustainable Tourism.

Tazim Jamal is Professor in the Dept. of Recreation, Park and Tourism Sciences at Texas A&M University. Her research focuses on sustainable tourism and collaborative tourism planning. She is the author of Justice and Ethics in Tourism (2019, Routledge) and co-editor of The Handbook of Tourism Studies (2009).

James Higham is Professor in the Otago Business School at the University of Otago, New Zealand. His research addresses tourism and environmental change at the global, national and local scales of analysis. He is the co-editor of the Journal of Sustainable Tourism.