ABSTRACT

This book brings the field of tourism into dialogue with what is captured under the varied notions of the Anthropocene. It explores issues and challenges which the Anthropocene may pose for tourism, and it offers significant insights into how it might reframe conceptual and empirical undertakings in tourism research. Furthermore, through the lens of the Anthropocene this book also spurs thinking of the role of tourism in relation to sustainable development, planetary boundaries, ethics (and what is framed as geo-ethics) and refocused tourism theory to make sense of tourism’s earthly entanglements and thinking tourism beyond Nature-Society. The multidisciplinary nature of the material will appeal to a broad academic audience, such as those working in tourism, geography, anthropology and sociology.

chapter 1|14 pages

Tourism and the Anthropocene

An urgent emerging encounter

part I|60 pages

Tourism and tourists in the Anthropocene

chapter 3|18 pages

Undoing Iceland?

The pervasive nature of the urban

chapter 4|23 pages

Loving nature to death

Tourism consumption, biodiversity loss and the Anthropocene

part II|54 pages

Sustaining tourism in the Anthropocene

chapter 5|17 pages

ANT, tourism and situated globality

Looking down in the Anthropocene

chapter 7|18 pages

Good versus bad tourism

Homo viator's responsibility in light of life-value onto-axiology

part III|71 pages

Tourism becomings in the Anthropocene

chapter 8|21 pages

The movement heritage

Scale, place and pathscapes in Anthropocene tourism

chapter 9|19 pages

Anthropocene ambiguities

Upscale golf, analytical abstractions, and the particularities of environmental transformation