Encounters Across Difference

Natalia Bloch

doi:10.5771/9781793624727

Summary

In Encounters across Difference, Natalia Bloch examines tourism encounters in the informal sector in India and their potential to empower subaltern communities. Drawing from ethnographic evidence in Hampi and Dharamshala, Bloch explores the potential of tourism to promote political engagement, volunteering, sponsorship, local entrepreneurship, and women’s empowerment. Contrary to the frequent criticism of tourism to the Global South as a colonial practice, Bloch argues that workers and small entrepreneurs in displaced communities see tourists as allies in their political struggles and, on a more individual level, as an opportunity to build better lives.

For more information, check out A Conversation with Natalia Bloch, author of Encounters across Difference: Tourism and Overcoming Subalternity in India.

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Copyright year: 2021
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-2471-0
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-2472-7
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 300
Product type: Book Titles

1. Dedication No access
2. Preface No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
1. Why Do We Feel Contempt for Tourists? No access
2. Why Does Tourism Matter? No access
3. Theoretical Framework and Objectives: The Necessity of (Radical) Rethinking No access
4. Tourist India: Spaces of Encounter No access
5. Reader’s Guide to the Chapters No access
6. On Names and Terms No access
1. 1. Hampi: Pilgrims, Hippies, and UNESCO No access
  2. Dharamshala: A Refugee Camp, Dalai Lama Superstar, and a Cricket Stadium No access
2. 1. Norbu and Dolma with Their Son Tsering No access
  2. Udai and Mohan No access
  3. Phurbu and Padma with Daughters Aiya and Lhamo No access
  4. Nelli and Anita No access
  5. Dolkar No access
  6. Prakash No access
  7. Kelsang and Tamiko No access
  8. Tenzin No access
3. Ethnography in Mobile Fields No access
1. 1. Europeans: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies? No access
  2. Israelis: Grassroots Enclavic Tourism No access
  3. Russians: New Challenges No access
  4. Less Visible Ones No access
2. (Un)obvious Economic Disparities No access
3. Domestic Tourist: Our Own Other No access
1. 1. Tibetanness as a Tourist Attraction: Tibetanization Practices No access
  2. Whose Heritage Is It? No access
  3. Cool-Hot: A Game of Authenticity No access
2. 1. “A Friend, Not a Servant”: The Need for Closeness and Partnership No access
  2. “Sharing Is Caring”: The Principle of Reciprocity No access
  3. Cosmopolitan Natives: Cross-Cultural Competences No access
  4. Caring Guardians: Responsibility for Tourists No access
  5. Shanti: Saying No to Capitalist Profitability No access
1. 1. “How Can I Support Tibet?”: Momo with Nutella and the Performance of Torture Victim No access
  2. Included in the Tour Itinerary: Visiting the Prime Minister–In–Exile No access
  3. “Save Hampi People”: Struggle against Displacement No access
2. 1. “Think Globally, Act Locally” No access
  2. New Moral Tourists No access
  3. Inequalities, Exchange, Capitals No access
1. Sponsoring: Attempts to Escape One’s Social Destiny No access
2. “Tourists Taught My Dad How to Make an Omelet”: Supporting Local Tourism Entrepreneurship No access
3. Women and Tourism: Contacts with Tourists as an Emancipatory Force No access
4. Love in the Times of Tourism: Race and Gender No access
Conclusions No access Pages 245 - 260
References No access Pages 261 - 290
Index No access Pages 291 - 298
About the Author No access Pages 299 - 300