All Outputs (2)

'Frontier Climbing' in the Wild, Wild East (2018)
Book Chapter
Bott, E. (2018). 'Frontier Climbing' in the Wild, Wild East. In H. Saul, & E. Waterton (Eds.), Affective Geographies of Transformation, Exploration and Adventure: Rethinking FrontiersTaylor & Francis

This chapter explores certain tensions in the often contradictory and always subjective notions of 'adventures' and 'frontiers' in overlapping dimensions through the context of rock-climbing tourism in Li Ming in remote southern China. It also explor... Read More about 'Frontier Climbing' in the Wild, Wild East.

Among the piranhas: the troubling lifespan of ethnic tropes in “tribal” tourism to Vietnam (2018)
Journal Article
Bott, E. (2018). Among the piranhas: the troubling lifespan of ethnic tropes in “tribal” tourism to Vietnam. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 26(8), 1291-1307. https://doi.org/10.1080/09669582.2018.1435669

This article presents findings from mixed-method research into ethnic tourism in Vietnam. Drawing on critical discourse analysis and ethnographic research carried out in Sapa, northern Vietnam, the article examines how minority Indigenous groups are... Read More about Among the piranhas: the troubling lifespan of ethnic tropes in “tribal” tourism to Vietnam.