Our Future Environment

Eco-tourism can have a negative or positive influence on a local natural landscape or economy; this is not a new idea.

But, a critical analysis of which and how individuals are affected in processes of eco-tourism is needed and relatively fresh in leisure studies. Eco-tourism studies, and those individuals studied, can benefit from the inclusion of theories of the politics of intersectionality and difference.

In the conclusion of the edited volume Leisure Studies: Prospects for the Twenty-First Century (1999), the editors call for the inclusion of critical theory, branching from Habbermas, into leisure studies.

So, from here I will venture forth.

photo credit: j / f / photos

Filed under: eco-tourism, critical theory, goals on June 23rd, 2008