Tourism in the context of postcolonial and decolonial paradigms

Abstract

Tourism studies and the postcolonial paradigm: A French exception Given that France was historically the second largest colonial empire, and that the colonies acted as powerful catalysts of globalization of tourism (Baranowski and Furlough, 200; Zytnicki and Kazdaghli, 2009), there are remarkably few francophone studies on the postcolonial dimensions of the practices, sites, and imaginaries of contemporary tourism or on the production of norms governing its economic, social, and political or...