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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pezzullo, Phaedra C.

Series:

Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique Series

Rhetoric, culture, and social critique Toxic tourism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental justice.

Hazardous waste sites--Political aspects.

Hazardous waste sites.

Tourism--Social aspects.

Tourism.

Tourism--Environmental aspects.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 265 p. :) ill. ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Winner of the: 2010 Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Book Award, sponsored by National Communication Association 2007 James A.Winans-Herbert A.Wichelns Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address, sponsored by National Communication Association 2007 Best Book of the Year for Critical and Cultural Studies,.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: A Challenge

1. Tourist Itineraries

2. Toxic Baggage

3. Sites and Sacralization

4. Cancer and Co-optation

5. Identification and Imagined Communities

Conclusion: All the Time in the World

Epilogue: And the Struggles Continue...

Appendix: Contact Information for Advocacy Groups

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-250) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-8173-8855-9

OCLC:

889674917