Justice, Mobility, Power and Tourism: In Search of Ethical Encounters

This book offers a critical and justice-oriented examination of tourism’s complex impacts, revealing how it shapes and is shaped by economic, social, gender, environmental, animal, and racial (in)justices. It explores pathways towards more equitable and transformative practices for communities and environments.

Dominic Lapointe is a professor in the Department of Urban and Tourism Studies at Université du Québec à Montréal. He holds the Chaire adaptation climat tourisme québec at UQAM and he is the head of Téoros, the oldest French language tourism studies journal. His work explores the production of tourism space and its role in the capitalist system expansion and its biopolitical dimensions. Its latest research looks at climate change, social innovations, dwelling and critical perspective in tourism studies.

Michela J. Stinson completed her PhD at the University of Waterloo in the Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies. She is interested in how stories, objects, and affects are ordered to maintain political and structural formations like nationalism and settler colonialism in tourism places. Her current work thinks through relations of land, public memory, infrastructure, and ruination in the city of Niagara Falls, Ontario

Meghan L. Muldoon is an Assistant Professor of Sustainable Tourism & Society at the University of Groningen’s Campus Fryslân in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands, where she teaches courses in tourism, culture, and planning, gendered geographies, and arts-based methodologies for decolonizing research. Her research interests include the intersections of tourism and poverty, decolonization, feminisms, digital discourses, representations of Indigeneity, and arts-based methodologies.

Bryan S. R. Grimwood is a Professor in the Department of Recreation and leisure studies at the University of Waterloo, Canada. His research examines ethical and political dimensions of tourism, leisure, and cultural livelihoods.