{"title":"Doing gender in events: feminist perspectives in critical event studies","authors":"Louise Platt","doi":"10.1080/14766825.2022.2087348","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"attitude and practice with ethical underpinnings may be cultivated through various servicelearning abroad experiences (Feinberg and Edwards), by going to Guatemala and working directly with Maya women weavers in impoverished communities (Nelson), and by taking a guided educational tour of China with expert scholars (Shepherd). Instead, these case studies demonstrate the tourists (students and volunteers, too) reveal that they are decidedly not cosmopolitan in their actions and attitudes, because they are driven more by selfish selfinterest than helping, acquiring new knowledge, and understanding difference. Frankly, cosmopolitanism is not about racking up a bunch of things, knowledge, and experiences. It is an ideal, utopic structural position that is defined by ambiguous, relational elitist sensibilities. The tourists and culture brokers may navigate complex cultural spaces (knowmultiple languages and cultural-social-political ways) to have a good experience or be to be economically successful, but they are all vulgar cosmopolitans who may or may not actually aspire to the kinds of ideal liberal cosmopolitanism by which Shepherd frames this volume.","PeriodicalId":46712,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2000,"publicationDate":"2022-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change","FirstCategoryId":"91","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14766825.2022.2087348","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
attitude and practice with ethical underpinnings may be cultivated through various servicelearning abroad experiences (Feinberg and Edwards), by going to Guatemala and working directly with Maya women weavers in impoverished communities (Nelson), and by taking a guided educational tour of China with expert scholars (Shepherd). Instead, these case studies demonstrate the tourists (students and volunteers, too) reveal that they are decidedly not cosmopolitan in their actions and attitudes, because they are driven more by selfish selfinterest than helping, acquiring new knowledge, and understanding difference. Frankly, cosmopolitanism is not about racking up a bunch of things, knowledge, and experiences. It is an ideal, utopic structural position that is defined by ambiguous, relational elitist sensibilities. The tourists and culture brokers may navigate complex cultural spaces (knowmultiple languages and cultural-social-political ways) to have a good experience or be to be economically successful, but they are all vulgar cosmopolitans who may or may not actually aspire to the kinds of ideal liberal cosmopolitanism by which Shepherd frames this volume.
期刊介绍:
Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change ( JTCC ) is a peer-reviewed, transdisciplinary and transnational journal. It focuses on critically examining the relationships, tensions, representations, conflicts and possibilities that exist between tourism/travel and culture/cultures in an increasingly complex global context. JTCC provides a forum for debate against the backdrop of local, regional, national and transnational understandings of identity and difference. Economic restructuring, recognitions of the cultural dimension of biodiversity and sustainable development, contests regarding the positive and negative impact of patterns of tourist behaviour on cultural diversity, and transcultural strivings - all provide an important focus for JTCC . Global capitalism, in its myriad forms engages with multiple ''ways of being'', generating new relationships, re-evaluating existing, and challenging ways of knowing and being. Tourists and the tourism industry continue to find inventive ways to commodify, transform, present/re-present and consume material culture. JTCC seeks to widen and deepen understandings of such changing relationships and stimulate critical debate by: -Adopting a multidisciplinary approach -Encouraging deep and critical approaches to policy and practice -Embracing an inclusive definition of culture -Focusing on the concept, processes and meanings of change -Encouraging trans-national/transcultural perspectives