Toxic Tourism : Rhetorics of Pollution, Travel, and Environmental Justice / Phaedra C. Pezzullo.

The first book length study of the environmental justice movement, tourism, and the links between race, class, and waste. 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 dead...

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Main Author: Pezzullo, Phaedra C. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2007.
©2007
Series:Albma Rhetoric Cult & Soc Crit.
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Summary:The first book length study of the environmental justice movement, tourism, and the links between race, class, and waste. 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 reception, a new understanding of democratic participation inenvironmental decision-making has begun to arise.
Physical Description:1 online resource (280 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-250) and index.
ISBN:9780817388553
0817388559
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.