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book review ts tourist studies sage publications Los Angeles, London, New Delhi and Singapore vol 7(3) 341–343 DOI: 10.1177/ www.sagepublications.com Toxic tourism: rhetorics of pollution, travel and environmental justice by Phaedra Pezzullo. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press: 2007. 320 pp. US$47.50. ISBN-13: 978–0–8173–1550–4 Often the words ‘tourism’ or ‘touring’ conjure ideas connected to pleasure, travel- ing away from our day-to-day lives, visiting new places and experiencing new things. But what about touring a neighborhood where toxic issues are negatively effecting the environment and the health of the residents, while profiting corpor- ations? Toxic tours invite tourists to expose themselves to the pain of others, the poi- soned air or land, and allow the personal stories of struggle to be made present and remedied. In Toxic Tourism, Phaedra Pezzullo shows us how touring moves beyond the simple notions of leisure travel, and should be considered a discursive produc- tion and performative act that opens the conversation for democratic engagement. Pezzullo describes the variety of current-day touring that takes place, from leav- ing the country, to touring an art museum or potential homes to purchase. She explains that Toxic Tourism is referred to as a ‘tour’ partially because of the simple
Tourist Studies: An International Journal – SAGE
Published: Dec 1, 2007
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