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ANTH 29907 - Global Tourism: Politics of Encounter

Course Credit: 1
(WGSS)
GLOBAL TOURISM: THE POLITICS OF ENCOUNTER: Global tourism is a valued source of economic development, heritage-making, and cultural exchange. It is also an industry that is sustained by violence. This violence is reproduced through processes such as colonialism and globalization and it takes the form of dispossession, commodification, Othering, and inequalities. Throughout the semester, we will learn about these power structures and how people creatively challenge the politics of encounter, reworking and resisting the landscape of tourism. We will critically reflect on our own assumptions about tourism as we propose alternatives to the complex relations of power that undergird its practice. Prerequisite(s): ANTH-11000 [GE, PPRE]