Tourism and indigenous heritage in Latin America: as observed through Mexico’s magical village Cuetzalan
Year: 2018
Type: book-review
Abstract: From the early 1990s, a diverse body of tourism scholarship has examined the links between indigenous peoples and tourism, mainly through the theoretical lenses of cultural or community based tourism (CBT), sustainable development and natural resources management (for a review of the Anglophone literature on the topic, see Carr, Ruhanen & Whitford, 2016; for a review of recent Latin American research, see Pereiro, 2016).In the face of globalization and modernity, there has been a growing concern over the governance and preservation of indigenous cultural heritage, in tune with the recommendations posited by international organisations like UNESCO.Going beyond the sustainability and empowerment frameworks frequently employed in the tourism academies, Casper Jacobsen's Tourism and Indigenous Heritage in Latin America: As Observed through Mexico's Magical Village Cuetzalan offers the reader a critical examination of the emergence of multicultourism, defined by the author as a neoliberal governmentality frame that fuses multicultural politics of recognition with tourism, while conceptualizing indigenous heritage as a "national resource" to be exploited in tourism initiatives.
Source: Journal of Heritage Tourism
Author: Laura Paola Vizcaino-Suárez
Institution: Bournemouth University
Language: English
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2905576555