Tourism and development: critical perspectives.

Abstract

In recent decades, tourism and travelling has increasingly come to be recognized as a highly complex field of research that raises questions that are both local and global, that involves questions about identity and self-understanding, as well as questions relating to human rights, development, global economy and international political relations. Still, there are yet few Swedish textbooks where contemporary tourism and travel is highlighted from a critical perspective, or where issues of global power relations are in focus. Therefore, the purpose of this project has been to produce text books in Swedish, in which international tourism and travel are confronted with new, critical, theoretical perspectives.

Keywords

Colonial/postcolonial, Globalization, Transnational, Development,

Publications

Slavnic, Z. (2013), ?Working in the ?Bleak House? ? an autoethnographic study of ethnic segmentation, precarization and informalization in the London hotel industry?, Hospitality & Society 3: 1, pp. 7?24, doi: 10.1386/hosp.3.1.7_1

Slavnic, Z. (2011). Arbetsvilkor. Perspektiv på turism och resande: Begrepp för en kritisk turismanalys. J. Syssner. Lund, Studentlitteratur.

Syssner, J (red.) (2011, in press) Perspektiv på turism och resande: Begrepp för en kritisk turismanalys, Lund: Studentlitteratur.

Syssner, J. (2010) Platser, människor, visioner – om Vimmerby som kommun och besöksmål, i Johnsson, Leif (red.) Samhällsutveckling och Kulturarv i Vimmerby kommun, Lund: Nordic Academic Press.

Syssner, J. och Khayati, K. (2010) Veni, Vidi, Adios, in Tesfahuney, M. and Shough, K. (red.). Det Globala Privilegiet. Sekel Förlag.