Drawing on recent trends in geography, anthropology, environmental and tourism studies, the chapters in this anthology employ a political ecology approach to the analysis of tourism development and impacts on the community and environment.

The volume begins by chronicling interdisciplinary perspectives on political ecology of tourism as well as how the subject has been treated in tourism studies to date. It addresses why political ecology has been given so little attention, despite the widespread consideration of the environment and politics in tourism studies. As the chapters in this anthology make clear, political ecologies of tourism are mediated by a range of political, economic and cultural relations of power. As a result of these relations, some ecological concerns are privileged while others are marginalized. This book advances our understanding of the role of political, economic and environmental concerns in tourism development and impacts on the community and environment. It offers the reader a critical and empirically grounded understanding of the contemporary relevance of political ecology to address tourism related issues such as power, uneven development, environmentalism, globalization and political economy.

This book will be valuable reading for those interested in the intersection of geography, anthropology and tourism studies.

Introduction: Communities and Power Section 1: Communities and Power 1. A Gendered Political Ecology of Tourism and Water Stroma Cole 2. Ngarrindjeri Authority: A sovereignty approach to tourism Ron Nicholls, Freya Higgins-Desbiolles and Grant Rigney 3. Co-management of Natural Resources in Protected Areas in 'Post-Colonial' Africa Chengeto Chaderopa 4. "Few People Know that Krishna was the First Environmentalist": Religiously Motivated Conservation as a Response to Pilgrimage Pressures in Vrindavan, India Tamara Luthy 5. Festive environmentalism: A carnivalesque reading of eco-voluntourism at the Roskilde Festival Mette Fog Olwig and Lene Bull Christiansen Section 2: Conservation and Control 6. Unsettling the Moral Economy of Tourism on Chile's Easter Island Forrest Wade Young 7. Rethinking ecotourism in environmental discourse in Shangri-La: An antiessentialist political ecology perspective Jundan (Jasmine) Zhang 8. (Re)creating forest natures: assemblage and political ecologies of ecotourism in Japan's central highlands Eric J. Cunningham 9. 'Ecotourism or Eco-utilitarianism - exploring the new debates in Ecotourism Stephen Wearing and Michael Wearing Section 3: Development and Conflict 10. Political Ecologies and Economies of Tourism Development in Kaokoland, North-West Namibia Jarkko Saarinen 11. Cleaning Up the Streets, Sandinista-style: The Aesthetics of Garbage and the Urban Political Ecology of Tourism Development in Nicaragua Josh Fisher 12. The Political Ecology of Tourism Development on Mount Kilimanjaro Megan Holroyd¿ 13. "Absolutely Not Smelly": The Political Ecology of Disengaged Slum Tours in Mumbai, India Kevin Hannam and Anya Diekmann 14. Composing Greenlandic tourism futures: An Integrated Political Ecology and Actor-Network Theory Approach Carina Ren, Lill Rastad Bjørst and Dianne Dredge Conclusion: Meets, Routes and Leaves: Concluding thoughts on the intersection of tourism studies and political ecology Afterword Jim Igoe

Mary Mostafanezhad is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa.

Roger Norum is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Leeds School of English, where he is a member of the HERA-funded project Arctic Encounters: Contemporary Travel/Writing in the European High North and the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network in Environmental Humanities. Trained in social anthropology, his research focuses on sociality, temporality, travel and the environment.

Eric J. Shelton works with environmental NGOs in New Zealand and strives to situate nature-based tourism within environmental philosophy.

Anna Thompson-Carr is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Tourism at the University of Otago, NZ. She has conducted research and published in high quality tourism journals on visitors' experiences of cultural values for landscapes in New Zealand with a focus on integrating cultural values within interpretation.