Political Ecology of Tourism- Front Cover -- Political Ecology of Tourism -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Figures -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Note -- Reference -- Introduction -- What is political ecology? -- Core elements of political ecology analyses: history, place and scale -- Political ecology of tourism: a review -- Political ecology of tourism: towards a conceptual framework -- Themes and structure of the book -- Part I: Communities and power -- Part II: Conservation and control -- Part III: Development and conflict -- References -- Part I: Communities and power -- Introduction to Communities and power -- References -- Chapter 1: A gendered political ecology of tourism and water -- Case study 1: Bali, Indonesia -- Case study 2: Tamarindo, Costa Rica -- Salient issues in a gendered political ecology of tourism and water -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 2: Ngarrindjeri Authority: A sovereignty approach to tourism -- Introduction -- Tourism and political ecology -- Reinhabitation: learning to (re)live in place -- The Ngarrindjeri and their care of Ruwe and Yarluwar-Ruwe -- Neoliberalism as political rationality -- Context of water allocations and the advocacy of cultural flows -- Implications for Ngarrindjeri tourism ventures -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: Co-management of natural resources in protected areas in 'postcolonial' Africa -- Introduction -- The Makuleke community -- Co-management in a 'postcolonial' Africa context -- The Makuleke experience of the politics of co-management -- Existing tourism developments in the Makuleke Contractual Park -- Joint decision-making and exercise of power in the MCP -- Conclusion -- References.

Chapter 4: 'Few people know that Krishna was the first environmentalist': Religiously motivated conservation as a response to pilgrimage pressures in Vrindavan, India -- Introduction -- The political ecology of religious tourism -- Bowers, bhava and bliss: Vrindavan's sacred geography -- Pilgrims' progress: explanatory models of environmental issues in Vrindavan -- Reworking Krishna as an environmental deity -- Capturing 'Krishna the environmentalist': secular environmental NGOs and religiously motivated conservation -- Contemporary debates about religion and ecology in India -- Conclusion: religiously motivated conservation and political ecology -- References -- Chapter 5: Festive environmentalism: A carnivalesque reading of eco-voluntourism at the Roskilde Festival -- Introduction -- Celebratory environmentalism and voluntourism -- The celebratory as carnivalesque -- Roskilde Festival -- The Roskilde Festival as voluntourism -- Roskilde Festival and the environment -- Popular-festive ethical consumption at Roskilde Festival -- Volunteering and community spirit at Roskilde Festival -- Conclusion - festivals as utopia -- Notes -- References -- Part II: Conservation and control -- Introduction to Conservation and control -- References -- Chapter 6: Unsettling the moral economy of tourism on Chile's Easter Island -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 7: Rethinking ecotourism in environmental discourse in Shangri-La: An antiessentialist political ecology perspective -- Introduction -- Ecotourism in Shangri-La -- An antiessentialist political ecology -- Conclusion: nature as environmental discourse -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 8: (Re)creating forest natures: Assemblage and political ecologies of ecotourism in Japan's central highlands -- Introduction -- Images and discourses of nature -- Chapter structure and methods.

Historical ecologies of the Kiso region -- Imagining and assembling ecotourist natures -- Forest bathing - assembling real imaginaries -- Popular outdoor sports - assembling ecotourism subjects -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 9: Ecotourism or eco-utilitarianism: Exploring the new debates in ecotourism -- Introduction -- How does local ecotourism's consumption of nature work? -- Protected areas discourse and community-based ecotourism -- Do we need an industry-based neoliberal business model for ecotourism to be successful? -- Social impacts and conservation ethics -- An eco-care ethic: holding environmental and social values in balance -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part III: Development and conflict -- Introduction to Development and conflict -- References -- Chapter 10: Political ecologies and economies of tourism development in Kaokoland, north-west Namibia -- Introduction -- Global tourism and local development -- Emerging poverty alleviation focus in tourism development -- Tourism and development in Namibia -- Political ecologies and economies of tourism development in Kaokoland -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 11: Cleaning up the streets, Sandinista-style: The aesthetics of garbage and the urban political ecology of tourism development in Nicaragua -- Introduction -- Toward an urban political ecology of tourism development -- From dumps to national development -- Aesthetic governmentality and tourism development in the Live Clean, Live Healthy campaign -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 12: The political ecology of tourism development on Mount Kilimanjaro -- Introduction -- Methodology -- Overview of park formation in Tanzania -- The dominant actors in Mount Kilimanjaro tourism -- Impacts and implications of protected areas for tourism development on Mount Kilimanjaro -- Discussion and conclusion.

References -- Chapter 13: 'Absolutely not smelly': The political ecology of disengaged slum tours in Mumbai, India -- Introduction -- Slum tourism -- Methodological approach -- Mumbai slum tours -- (Dis)embodied political ecologies -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 14: Composing Greenlandic tourism futures: An integrated political ecology and actor-network theory approach -- Introduction -- Political ecology and actor-network theory -- The methodology of ANT -- Narsaq - a place of tourism or a place of mining? -- Composing a landscape -- Alternative landscape and staying concerned, or why is this about tourism? Concluding remarks -- References -- Conclusion: Towards future intersections of tourism studies and political ecology -- Notes -- References -- Afterword -- Getting in touch with uneven development's cultural side -- Tourism and government -- Tourism and development -- Tourism and nature conservation -- Tourism, memory, and imagination -- Notes -- References -- Index.