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S1 #10 | Ecotourism, Catharsis, and Post-Capitalist Dreaming | Robert Fletcher
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On this episode, our guest is Robert Fletcher, an environmental anthropologist and author at Wageningen University in the Netherlands.
Robert is based in the Sociology of Development and Change group at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. A former ecotourism guide, he is an environmental anthropologist with research interests in conservation, development, tourism, globalization, climate change, human-wildlife interaction, social and resistance movements, and non-state forms of governance. He uses a political ecology approach to explore how culturally-specific understandings of human-nonhuman relations and political economic structures intersect to inform patterns of natural resource use and conflict.
His publications include the books The Conservation Revolution: Radical Ideas for Saving Nature beyond the Anthropocene, co-authored with Bram Büscher, and published by Verso Books in 2020, and Romancing the Wild: Cultural Dimensions of Ecotourism, published by Duke University Press in 2014.
Robert joins me on this episode to explore his personal experience and research into ecotourism and its contradictions, extinction tourism and disaster capitalism, the capitalocene, what ecotourism does to our understandings of nature and vice versa, the body in ecotourism worlds, ideology and post-capitalism.
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Robert Fletcher's Official Website
The Conservation Revolution: Radical Ideas for Saving Nature beyond the Anthropocene
Romancing the Wild: Cultural Dimensions of Ecotourism
Essay: Ecotourism after nature: Anthropocene tourism as a new capitalist “fix”
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On this episode, our guest is Robert Fletcher, an environmental anthropologist and author at Wageningen University in the Netherlands.
Robert is based in the Sociology of Development and Change group at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. A former ecotourism guide, he is an environmental anthropologist with research interests in conservation, development, tourism, globalization, climate change, human-wildlife interaction, social and resistance movements, and non-state forms of governance. He uses a political ecology approach to explore how culturally-specific understandings of human-nonhuman relations and political economic structures intersect to inform patterns of natural resource use and conflict.
His publications include the books The Conservation Revolution: Radical Ideas for Saving Nature beyond the Anthropocene, co-authored with Bram Büscher, and published by Verso Books in 2020, and Romancing the Wild: Cultural Dimensions of Ecotourism, published by Duke University Press in 2014.
Robert joins me on this episode to explore his personal experience and research into ecotourism and its contradictions, extinction tourism and disaster capitalism, the capitalocene, what ecotourism does to our understandings of nature and vice versa, the body in ecotourism worlds, ideology and post-capitalism.
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Robert Fletcher's Official Website
The Conservation Revolution: Radical Ideas for Saving Nature beyond the Anthropocene
Romancing the Wild: Cultural Dimensions of Ecotourism
Essay: Ecotourism after nature: Anthropocene tourism as a new capitalist “fix”
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Discover more episodes and join the conversation: http://www.theendoftourism.com
Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter @theendoftourism
Join the Conspiracy! Support us via Patreon @ https://www.patreon.com/theendoftourism
Get full access to ⌘ Chris Christou ⌘ at chrischristou.substack.com/subscribe
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