Towards a gendered political economy of water and tourism
Towards a gendered political economy of water and tourism
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DOI：
10.1080/14616688.2015.1065509
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发表时间：
2015-08-08
影响因子：
9.8
通讯作者：
Ferguson, Lucy
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作者：
Cole, Stroma;Ferguson, Lucy
在许多度假胜地，旅游业给供水带来了巨大的压力。这产生了一系列社会问题，特别是因为当地居民经常不得不与旅游部门竞争获取、分配和使用水以满足其个人和家庭需求。然而，关于旅游业与缺水对发展中国家目的地人口的影响之间的联系的学术研究很少。虽然有大量关于性别和旅游业发展的文献，但此类研究往往侧重于雇佣关系和旅游政策和规划，而忽视了水等生态问题。基于2013年在哥斯达黎加塔玛林多进行的原始民族志研究，本文初步尝试通过在旅游发展中发展针对水的性别政治经济学方法来解决文献中的这一差距。这项研究确定了三个关键主题：性别、阶级和国籍的交叉不平等的突出问题，特别是尼加拉瓜妇女、哥斯达黎加妇女和来自全球北方的妇女的不同经历；由于关于妇女对水的责任的长期假设，社会再生产的作用如何对理解塔马林多的性别和水至关重要；以及围绕水的冲突的性别层面。这种冲突具有高度的性别色彩，有助于重塑这个国际旅游目的地的权力关系。总而言之，我们认为，我们的研究结果表明，有必要同时关注交叉性和社会再生产，并确定未来的研究议程，以发展旅游和水的性别政治经济学方法。
In many holiday destinations, the tourism industry exerts an enormous strain on water supplies. This generates a range of social problems, not least because local inhabitants often have to compete with the tourism sector over the access, allocation and use of water for their personal and domestic needs. Nevertheless, there has been very little academic research on the link between tourism and the impact of water scarcity on destination populations in developing countries. While there is a wealth of literature on gender and tourism development, such research has tended to focus on employment relations and tourism policy and planning, neglecting ecological issues such as water. Drawing on original ethnographic research conducted in Tamarindo, Costa Rica, in 2013, this paper makes a preliminary attempt to address this gap in the literature by developing a gendered political economy approach to water in tourism development. Three key themes are identified from this research: the salience of intersectional inequalities of gender, class and nationality, in particular the different experiences of Nicaraguan women, Costa Rican women and women from the Global North; how the role of social reproduction is vital to understanding gender and water in Tamarindo due to enduring assumptions about women's perceived responsibility for water; and the gendered dimensions of conflicts over water. Such conflicts are highly gendered and contribute to reshaping of power relations in this international tourism destination. In conclusion, we argue that our findings demonstrate the need to pay attention to both intersectionality and social reproduction, as well as to identify a future research agenda for developing a gendered political economy approach to tourism and water.