ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses some issues and challenges facing diverse groups and vulnerable populations in the context of tourism. Social justice approaches discussed here in relation to these include building capabilities and justice as recognition. Various examples related to women and historically oppressed groups illustrate how tourism’s effects play out in everyday life and help to think about ways to counter disempowering politics, stereotyping and other social and cultural misrepresentations and appropriations. The chapter includes two cases from external contributors: one case is by Blanca Camargo on the Afro-Colombian Palenquera women; the second is a case study at the end of the chapter by Jeff Wahl on Native American contestation and “commemorative justice” at Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument (USA).
