Toxic Tourism: Rhetorics of Pollution, Travel, and Environmental Justice
In: Albma Rhetoric Cult & Soc Crit
In: Albma Rhetoric Cult and Soc Crit Ser
The first book length study of the environmental justice movement, tourism, and the links between race, class, and waste.Tourism is at once both a beloved pastime and a denigrated form of popular culture. Romanticized for its promise of pleasure, tourism is also potentially toxic, enabling the deadly exploitation of the cultures and environments visited. For many decades, the environmental justice movement has offered -toxic tours,- non-commercial trips intended to highlight people and locales polluted by poisonous chemicals. Out of these efforts and their popular reception, a new understand
