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Book review: Hazel Andrews (ed.), Tourism and Violence

Book review: Hazel Andrews (ed.), Tourism and Violence 588639 TOU0010.1177/1468797615588639Tourist StudiesBook review research-article2015 ts Book review Tourist Studies 2016, Vol. 16(1) 105 –107 Book review © The Author(s) 2015 Reprints and permissions: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1468797615588639 tou.sagepub.com Hazel Andrews (ed.) Tourism and Violence, Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, 2014, 250 pp. Reviewed by: Rebecca L Nelson, University of Connecticut, USA During my fieldwork in Guatemala in November 2011, a young man from the commu- nity of cazagringas (“gringa-hunters”), local men who pursued relationships with for- eign tourist women, commented with pride, “When the Europeans came, they raped the Indian women and got them pregnant. Now we’re conquering the foreign women!” The double meaning of the Spanish verb conquistar, to conquer or seduce, points to the com- plex postcolonial terrain of power relations that structure international flows of tourists. The need to account for such moments of tension and conflict necessitates the expanded understandings of violence in touristic relations—structural, symbolic, sexual, colonial, memorialized—advanced by this nuanced edited volume. This book is a fitting entry in the series New Directions in Tourism Analysis, which seeks to create a solid theoretical foundation for aspects of tourism that have been approached eclectically to date. The contributors come from a range of disci- plines, predominantly http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Tourist Studies: An International Journal SAGE

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588639 TOU0010.1177/1468797615588639Tourist StudiesBook review research-article2015 ts Book review Tourist Studies 2016, Vol. 16(1) 105 –107 Book review © The Author(s) 2015 Reprints and permissions: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1468797615588639 tou.sagepub.com Hazel Andrews (ed.) Tourism and Violence, Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, 2014, 250 pp. Reviewed by: Rebecca L Nelson, University of Connecticut, USA During my fieldwork in Guatemala in November 2011, a young man from the commu- nity of cazagringas (“gringa-hunters”), local men who pursued relationships with for- eign tourist women, commented with pride, “When the Europeans came, they raped the Indian women and got them pregnant. Now we’re conquering the foreign women!” The double meaning of the Spanish verb conquistar, to conquer or seduce, points to the com- plex postcolonial terrain of power relations that structure international flows of tourists. The need to account for such moments of tension and conflict necessitates the expanded understandings of violence in touristic relations—structural, symbolic, sexual, colonial, memorialized—advanced by this nuanced edited volume. This book is a fitting entry in the series New Directions in Tourism Analysis, which seeks to create a solid theoretical foundation for aspects of tourism that have been approached eclectically to date. The contributors come from a range of disci- plines, predominantly

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Published: Mar 1, 2016

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