Elisa Wynne-Hughes
Biographic Data
| ID | 642361 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elisa Wynne-Hughes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Wynne-Hughes |
| SIGNATURE | WYNNE-HUGHES E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2250-7710 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Touristic Zoopolitics: Colonial Capitalist Zoopolitics and Touristic Governance
While the global tourism system has immense governing power, how it governs and with what effects and consequences still needs theoretical development. This article theorises and interrogates how Western colonial capitalist zoopolitics – that is, the entangled politics of (de)valorisation and (de)humanisation – shape the Western tourism system and how it governs subjects and spaces. In so doing, the article makes two key contributions to critical…
The touristic transformation of postcolonial states: Human Zoos, Global Tourism Competition, and the Emergence of Zoo-Managing States
Tourism is transforming states. Nevertheless, how, in what ways, and with what consequences has yet to be adequately theorised and interrogated. This paper takes up this task by asking: How does tourism govern and transform states? And, what does this mean for places and people? Tourism is a global mobilities system with immense power. While this system is capable of governing and transforming all states, it has particular resonance in postcoloni…
Building consent for counterterrorism: Lonely Planet and Rough Guide tips for women tourists to revolutionary Egypt
This article examines how the Lonely Planet and Rough Guide to Egypt (2005-2015) depicted the sexual harassment of women tourists in a way that built consent for global counterterrorism practices. It examines guidebook tips for women travellers in the period surrounding the 2011 Egyptian revolution. These guidebooks represented poorer, more religious Muslim men as threatening to both Egyptian and Western women. Guidebooks suggested that, in respo…
The Battle of the Camel: Revolution, transition and tourism in Cairo
Precarity and International Relations
Governing Through Garbage-City Tourism: Producing International Neoliberal Subjects
In this essay I examine ‘ethical’ western tourism in Garbage-City, Cairo, to demonstrate how contemporary international governance works through everyday practices in ‘non-western’ tourism destinations. To do so, I use ethnography and discourse analytic methods to analyse the ways in which tourism practices at this site regulate the conduct of individuals by shaping the subject positions of ‘western tourists’ and ‘Garbage-City residents’. I found…
Happiness as enterprise
Who would go to Egypt?’ How tourism accounts for ‘terrorism’
This article examines the tension between British and Egyptian counterterrorism discourses and Western tourism industry discourses. I analyse how guidebooks like the Rough Guide and Lonely Planet attract tourists by representing Egypt as an appealing tourist destination in a way that accounts for its positioning, in counterterrorism discourses, as a location and source of terrorism. They do so by producing ‘risk’ in a very specific way. Guidebook…
The touristic transformation of postcolonial states: Human Zoos, Global Tourism Competition, and the Emergence of Zoo-Managing States
Tourism is transforming states. Nevertheless, how, in what ways, and with what consequences has yet to be adequately theorised and interrogated. This paper takes up this task by asking: How does tourism govern and transform states? And, what does this mean for places and people? Tourism is a global mobilities system with immense power. While this system is capable of governing and transforming all states, it has particular resonance in postcoloni…
Who would go to Egypt?’ How tourism accounts for ‘terrorism’
This article examines the tension between British and Egyptian counterterrorism discourses and Western tourism industry discourses. I analyse how guidebooks like the Rough Guide and Lonely Planet attract tourists by representing Egypt as an appealing tourist destination in a way that accounts for its positioning, in counterterrorism discourses, as a location and source of terrorism. They do so by producing ‘risk’ in a very specific way. Guidebook…
Building consent for counterterrorism: Lonely Planet and Rough Guide tips for women tourists to revolutionary Egypt
This article examines how the Lonely Planet and Rough Guide to Egypt (2005-2015) depicted the sexual harassment of women tourists in a way that built consent for global counterterrorism practices. It examines guidebook tips for women travellers in the period surrounding the 2011 Egyptian revolution. These guidebooks represented poorer, more religious Muslim men as threatening to both Egyptian and Western women. Guidebooks suggested that, in respo…
The Battle of the Camel: Revolution, transition and tourism in Cairo
Who would go to Egypt?’ How tourism accounts for ‘terrorism’
This article examines the tension between British and Egyptian counterterrorism discourses and Western tourism industry discourses. I analyse how guidebooks like the Rough Guide and Lonely Planet attract tourists by representing Egypt as an appealing tourist destination in a way that accounts for its positioning, in counterterrorism discourses, as a location and source of terrorism. They do so by producing ‘risk’ in a very specific way. Guidebook…
Happiness as enterprise
Governing Through Garbage-City Tourism: Producing International Neoliberal Subjects
In this essay I examine ‘ethical’ western tourism in Garbage-City, Cairo, to demonstrate how contemporary international governance works through everyday practices in ‘non-western’ tourism destinations. To do so, I use ethnography and discourse analytic methods to analyse the ways in which tourism practices at this site regulate the conduct of individuals by shaping the subject positions of ‘western tourists’ and ‘Garbage-City residents’. I found…
Precarity and International Relations
The Battle of the Camel: Revolution, transition and tourism in Cairo
Building consent for counterterrorism: Lonely Planet and Rough Guide tips for women tourists to revolutionary Egypt
This article examines how the Lonely Planet and Rough Guide to Egypt (2005-2015) depicted the sexual harassment of women tourists in a way that built consent for global counterterrorism practices. It examines guidebook tips for women travellers in the period surrounding the 2011 Egyptian revolution. These guidebooks represented poorer, more religious Muslim men as threatening to both Egyptian and Western women. Guidebooks suggested that, in respo…
The touristic transformation of postcolonial states: Human Zoos, Global Tourism Competition, and the Emergence of Zoo-Managing States
Tourism is transforming states. Nevertheless, how, in what ways, and with what consequences has yet to be adequately theorised and interrogated. This paper takes up this task by asking: How does tourism govern and transform states? And, what does this mean for places and people? Tourism is a global mobilities system with immense power. While this system is capable of governing and transforming all states, it has particular resonance in postcoloni…
Touristic Zoopolitics: Colonial Capitalist Zoopolitics and Touristic Governance
While the global tourism system has immense governing power, how it governs and with what effects and consequences still needs theoretical development. This article theorises and interrogates how Western colonial capitalist zoopolitics – that is, the entangled politics of (de)valorisation and (de)humanisation – shape the Western tourism system and how it governs subjects and spaces. In so doing, the article makes two key contributions to critical…
Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Tourism (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Colonialism (3 works) · Corporate governance (3 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (3 works) · Economics (3 works)