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Opening with the catastrophic economic collapse of 1997-98, this book argues that the Thai economic miracle always had feet of clay. Are Thailand's difficulties a short-term blip in the race to build a modern industrial economy, or is there a real prospect of the country being pushed back to Third World status? In this book, the authors explore the role of foreign investment and its consequences in pollution and environmental destruction, and the human effects of the Thai model on workers, rural villagers, women and child labour. What emerges is a critique of the vested interests, local and international, which have propelled the Thai people down this particular path, and a picture of its unsustainability in terms of human exploitation, social disruption, ecological damage and economic fragility. Tackling the dearth of politically-engaged work on travel and tourism, this book aims to provide a counter-narrative of travel-worlds shaped by the divergent legacies of colonialism, crusades, migration, diaspora, displacement, tourism, ethnography, political insurgency and transnationalization. Issues addressed in the book include: north-south traffic in hip hop, kung-fu and sex tourism; missionaries in India; academics in the west; St George as an Arab soldier in the crusades; the Indian-Pakistan border, displacement and defiance; mobile resistance to nation-state hegemonies in Bangladesh; the international market value of dead tourists; pop personalities, MTV and souvenir culture; diasporized Mirpuri youth on travel; touring black women, pleasure islands; and ethnographers abroad. The contributors refuse simplistic dichotomies of north/south and east/west, and confront head on existing conventions of writing about travel in post-colonial, literary and cultural studies.
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