Toxic Tourism: Rhetorics of Pollution, Travel, and Environmental Justice
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Tourism is at once both a beloved pastime and a denigrated form of popular culture. Romanticized for its promise of pleasure, tourism is also potentially toxic, enabling the deadly exploitation of the cultures and environments visited. For many decades, the environmental justice movement has offered --toxic tours, -- non-commercial trips intended to highlight people and locales polluted by poisonous chemicals. Out of these efforts and their popular...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0817355871
ISBN13:9780817355876
Release Date:May 2009
Publisher:University Alabama Press
Length:280 Pages
Weight:0.90 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"
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