Encounters across difference : tourism and overcoming subalternity in India / Natalia Bloch ; translated by Katarzyna Byłów.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bloch, Natalia, author.

Contributor:

Byłów, Katarzyna, translator.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Anthropology of tourism: heritage, mobility, and society

Anthropology of tourism : heritage, mobility, and society

Standardized Title:

Bliscy nieznajomi. English

Language:

English

Polish

Subjects (All):

Tourism--Social aspects--India.

Tourism.

Marginality, Social--India.

Marginality, Social.

Tourism--Social aspects.

India.

Physical Description:

xiii, 299 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2021]

Summary:

"In Encounters across Difference, Natalia Bloch examines tourism encounters 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. In a Circle of Mobility: Field Sites, Research Partners, Methods

2. The World Map as Seen from the Peripheries: The Tourist as an Object of Gaze

3. Not-So-Empty Meeting Grounds: Self-Representations and Relationships

4. Recovering the Subaltern Voices: Tourism and Engagement

5. Tourism as a Source of Individual Empowerment: Stories of Encounter.

Notes:

Translation of: Bliscy nieznajomi : turystyka i przezwyciężanie podporządkowania w postkolonialnych Indiach.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Bloch, Natalia. Bliscy nieznajomi. English Encounters across difference

ISBN:

9781793624710

1793624712

OCLC:

1242739030

Publisher Number:

99989844166