Crises and tourism mobilities

Abstract

Crisis could be the descriptor of the era in which we live. Financial, health, climate and refugee crises abound, there is significant interest in reflecting on the implications of these intersecting crises for different geographies, human (and non-human) communities, economic sectors and at different timescales. The articles included in the special issue reflect on different forms of crisis, and allow us to see crisis as a condition that impacts differentially, and which is predicated on an assumption of non-crisis; the time ‘before’, which relates to a hypothesised ‘after’. This assumption of a temporal (and often spatial) distinction between crisis and non-crisis requires further attention, as it has material implications for responses. The practice of researching crisis is discussed, where the all-too-real impacts and trauma of crisis for researchers, communities, and participants are central to our scholarship. Engaging more closely with the diverse range of scholarship on disaster, unnatural hazards and development, sustainable tourism literature can move beyond what to do in the event of a crisis, and how to prepare for a crisis, to thinking more critically about dispersed impacts and implications, underlying contributors to exposure, and intersections between different types of crises, through a lens of feminist crisis management.

Keywords:

• Transport
• mobilities
• sustainable tourism
• crisis
• risk
• hazard
• unnatural disasters
• feminist crisis management

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Debbie Hopkins

Debbie Hopkins is an associate professor in human geography jointly appointed between the Sustainable Urban Development programme and the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford.