Ecotourism's ethics

Self-organization and care in urban Guyana

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4464833
AutoresE Vaughn (0000-0001-7127-0575, University of California, Berkeley, autor de correspondencia), Sarah Elizabeth Vaughn
Año2022
Volumen5
Número2
Páginas976-994
Fecha de publicación2022-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEnvironment and Planning E Nature and Space (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2514-8486 • E-ISSN: 2514-8494
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/25148486211018566
OpenAlexW3169545082
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas39

In this article, I shed light on the ethical orientations of people who labour and invest in ecotourism, and the conditions through which ecotourism becomes recognizable as a neoliberal practice. I reveal that what distinguishes ecotourism is not merely its arrangements for the commodification of nature and related scientific enterprises. Instead, ecotourism depends in part on how people live with environmental degradation and the flexible ways in which they relate ideas of care to such lived experiences. Drawing on research conducted in urban Guyana, the article lays out people's struggles to plan for mangrove tourism despite the presence of garbage and the threat of erosion to forests. In so doing, I illustrate that ecotourism expresses itself through self-organizing processes and therefore, is dialectically intertwined with sociopolitical strategies of care and its distribution

Commodification · Economy · Ecotourism · Environmental ethics · Environmental planning · Geography · Political science · Sociology · Tourism · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Water Governance and Infrastructure