Specialization - Tourism, Pleasure, & Power
GEND 2536 Tourism, Pleasure, & Power
Prerequisites:
Any 18 credits completed.
Antirequisites:
GEND 2057: Special Topics when offered as Race, Sex, Tourism
(Winter 2016)
Hours:
Three hours of lecture per week for one term.
Credits:
3
Description:
Students learn critical race/social justice analyses of various forms of tourism--leisure, sex, roots/heritage, dark, reality, medical, trophy, eco-green, queer, celebrity, humanitarian, and revolutionary--as intimate economies within local-global networks of race and gender power relations. Students examine case studies to identify modes of governmentality. Students analyze how tourism (pleasure) practices reproduce or disrupt racialized-gendered neoliberal subjects and collective identities. Students evaluate and debate arguments regarding the ethicality / social justice implications of tourism.