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Ecotourism and Authenticity: Getting Away from It All?

West, Paige, Carrier, James G.·2004·Current Anthropology
DOI 10.1086/422082
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Anthropologists have paid substantial attention to the environment and to tourism. However, they have paid less attention to their conjunction in ecotourism. This article focuses on Western ecotourism in relatively poor countries, approaching it as an expression of certain important Western values concerning the natural world and the people who live there. It places ecotourism within its broader politicaleconomic contextneoliberalism and the institutions that reflect it, which foster its spread in the countries in question. Ecotourism may be seen as an exercise in power that can shape the natural world and the people who live in it in ways that contradict some of the values that it is supposed to express.

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Authors
West, P., & Carrier, J. G.
Venue
Current Anthropology
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Published
2004-08
Volume
45
Issue
4
Pages
483-498
ISSN
  • 0011-3204 (ISSN-L)
  • 1537-5382
DOI
10.1086/422082
OpenAlex
W1581878834
Cited by
276
References
52
FWCI
17.73
Type
journal article
Language
en
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