Toxic Tourism: Rhetorics of Pollution, Travel, and Environmental Justice

by Phaedra C. Pezzullo

Book Overview

Tourism is at once both a beloved pastime and a denigrated form of popular culture. Romanticized for its promise of pleasure, tourism is also potentially toxic, enabling the deadly exploitation of the cultures and environments visited. For many decades, the environmental justice movement has offered --toxic tours, -- non-commercial trips intended to highlight people and locales polluted by poisonous chemicals. Out of these efforts and their popular...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817355871
• ISBN13: 9780817355876
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"