Challenging heteronormativity in tourism studies: locating progress

Title: Challenging heteronormativity in tourism studies: locating progress
Creator: Waitt, Gordon; Markwell, Kevin; Gorman-Murray, Andrew
Relation: Progress in Human Geography Vol. 32, Issue 6, p. 781-800
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0309132508089827
Publisher: Sage Publications
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2008
Description: This article reviews work that challenges heteronormativity in tourism studies primarily from, but not restricted to, the discipline of geography. Indeed, tourism studies has benefitted greatly from the growth of interdisciplinary research between geography, anthropology, sociology, as well as more recent interactions with queer, gender and leisure studies. In this context, as geographers, our aim is to use an explicitly geographical perspective to provide critical insights into recent research which contests, reinforces, or omits to challenge heteronormative positions in tourism studies. To this end, we provide four thematic ‘locations’, or scales, through which to review progress of this inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary literature: the globalization of sexuality; marketing the (homo)sexualized nation; touring the (homo)sexualized city; and the tourist body as a gendered and sexed subject.
Subject: embodiment; heteronormativity; sexuality; tourism studies
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/43134
Identifier: uon:5261
Identifier: ISSN:0309-1325
Language: eng
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