Environmental Philosophy
CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Issue on Ecotourism and Environmental Justice
Guest Editor: Robert M. Figueroa
Scholarship on environmental justice has blossomed and extended beyond the confines of strict distributive justice and risk evaluations. Environmental justice studies better captures the interdisciplinary breadth of the scholarship that includes a wide-variety of considerations on the politics of space and place, the dimensions of recognition justice, environmental identity politics, environmental heritage, and the influences of environmental power over moral agency, respectful representation and inclusion, sustainability, and environmental displacement.
Ecotourism in the past decades has also experienced a broad heterogeneity in the delivery of services, the representation of local populations, the inclusion of local decision makers, broker obligations from transnational actors, and the multiplicity of participants and interactions. Ecotourism has brought values of environmental sustainability into action in numerous ways, but it has also complicated our understanding of cultural sustainability.
Ecotourism and environmental justice converge at fundamental levels and purposes. Local communities and global participants and consumers are under constant transformation in order to meet the specific conditions of respective ecotourism sites. The desire to investigate environmental justice studies under a wider-rubric draws a transformative approach to ecotourism. This special issue will explore ways in which ecotourism has expanded into a form environmental practices and values that conjure the social implications of environmental justice.
Some prompts—by no means exhaustive of the parameters of this special issue.
How has toxic tourism invoked the intersection of ecotourism and environmental justice?
How have alternative forms of tourism delivered new concerns for environmental justice?
How does “poorism” invoke the domains of environmental justice onto the ecotourism landscape?
How are indigenous groups responding to conflicts and conditions of local ecotourism efforts?
What are the obligations of international tourists to local communities?
How is sustainability fashioned to meet the demands of environmental justice under ecotourism industries?
What are the moral terrains surrounding ecotourism sites?
How should environmental philosophy engage these concerns?
How should critical geographers and political ecologists analyze specific cases?
What issues of justice concern international policies for sustainable tourism?
Submission Format
Submissions should be around 20-25 double-spaced pages, and should include an abstract of around 100 words. Please use the author-date reference system of the Chicago Manual of Style, and use footnotes rather than endnotes.
All correspondence and submissions for this special issue should be made to the guest editor at Robert.Figueroa@unt.edu.
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