Global Tourism
(2023)
Book Chapter
All Outputs (6)
Daily Bread: Women’s Self-Help Microfinance and the Social Meanings of Money (2022)
Journal Article
In this article, we explore the impacts and implications of ‘Rojiroti’, a women’s self-help group (SHG) microfinance scheme operating in poor communities in Bihar, India. We focus particularly on how improvements found in women’s circumstances and in... Read More about Daily Bread: Women’s Self-Help Microfinance and the Social Meanings of Money.
‘My dark heaven’: Hidden voices in orphanage tourism (2020)
Journal Article
Literature on orphanage tourism considers the motives of Western volunteers and the problematic nature of their compulsion to ‘help’ vulnerable children in the Global South. Orphanage tourism is also increasingly adopted into ‘rescue ideologies’ (How... Read More about ‘My dark heaven’: Hidden voices in orphanage tourism.
'Frontier Climbing' in the Wild, Wild East (2018)
Book Chapter
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
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.
‘You can never cross the same river twice’: climbers’ embodied quests for ‘original adventure’ in southern Thailand (2014)
Journal Article
This article presents ethnographic research into individual narratives of adventure in a small, undeveloped bay called Ton Sai in southern Thailand’s Krabi Province. Ton Sai is extremely popular with Western rock climbers and increasingly with other... Read More about ‘You can never cross the same river twice’: climbers’ embodied quests for ‘original adventure’ in southern Thailand.