ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book investigates distinct contexts and various understandings of habitation and habitability—the lifestyles people enact and the actions they take to ensure their continuance. It focuses on the multiple and sometimes contradictory thinking, politics and practices that drive the anthropocenic imaginary implicit in both tourist practices and environmental subjectivities across a number of core themes that include gender, health, conservation, agriculture, climate change, disaster, coastal marine management and sustainability. The book builds on emerging work that brings a political ecology lens to tourism, pushing this agenda forward by integrating the roles played by conceptual regimes that both embody and produce anthropogenic planetary socio-environmental change. It also contributes new theoretical and empirical insights to nascent scholarship that links assemblages of political ecological action with globalizing processes of tourism.
