Tourism generates intense atmospheric relations between people and places. Exploring the complex nature of these relations, Bloom Spaces considers the experiences of women who travel to Costa Rica in search of health and wellness, and find that it leads to an unexpected but seemingly natural outcome: pregnancy. The book looks beyond pregnancy as the result of an isolated act between two people, and instead probes the ways that the reproductive experience resonates with powerful tourist imaginaries of the Caribbean and multisensory environments of culture and place.
Inviting readers into a world of yoga studios, beaches, and rainforests, Susan Frohlick investigates how atmosphere can create bloom spaces that lead tourists down reproductive paths. Through an experimental approach that combines creative non-fiction, poetry, photography, and narrative ethnographic writing, this book seeks to capture the feelings and sensations that influence reproduction in tourist destinations. Ultimately, the book urges a rethinking of tourism that takes reproduction into consideration, highlighting the multiple actors involved in reproduction and the inequities of tourism that are reproduced.
By:
Susan Frohlick
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 25mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780369804907
ISBN 10: 0369804902
Series: Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 15 February 2023
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Professional and scholarly
,
Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Preface Introduction Chapter One: Prelude / Getting in a Tropical Yoga Mood Chapter One: Yoga and Atmospheric Openings Chapter One: Postlude / Pulled by a White Undercurrent? Chapter Two: Prelude / A Jungle Mood Sets In Chapter Two: The Visceral Energy of the Jungle: Senses, Sounds, Rhythms, Life Chapter Two: Postlude / As Though Natural Chapter Three: Prelude / The Magical Something of a Caribbean Beach Chapter Three: The Caribbean Beach: Reverberating with Possibilities Chapter Three: Postlude / Beaches that Resonate with Life (and Death) Chapter Four: Prelude / Promising Difference Chapter Four: Shimmers-and-Promises and (Cultural) Bloom Spaces Chapter Four: Postlude / A Bitter Aftertaste Conclusion Notes References
Susan Frohlick a professor of anthropology and gender and women's studies at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan.
