Bloom Spaces

Reproduction and Tourism on the Caribbean Coast of Costa Rica

Susan Frohlick

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English

University of Toronto Press
01 February 2024

Gender studies, gender groups; Gender studies: transsexuals & hermaphroditism

Series: Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom

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: 226mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 340g
ISBN: 9781487549695
ISBN 10: 1487549695
Series: Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 01 February 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
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.

Reviews for Bloom Spaces: Reproduction and Tourism on the Caribbean Coast of Costa Rica

"""Bloom Spaces is grounded in sound ethnographic practice that covers a decade of fieldwork in Costa Rica. Susan Frohlick writes sensitively, and the use of an experimental narrative style brings to life enduring and important questions of power and inequality. This book makes a vital and original contribution to an anthropology of tourism and tourism studies more generally."" - Hazel Andrews, Liverpool John Moores University ""Evocatively written, Bloom Spaces is an absorbing read and an important contribution to the anthropology of reproduction. Susan Frohlick gives nuanced consideration to the questions raised by the experiences of unexpected pregnancy, travel and tourism, and gender, race, and racialization."" - Sallie Han, State University of New York at Oneonta ""Susan Frohlick writes with sensitivity and critical insight about the lives of women from the global North who travel to Costa Rica's Caribbean coast seeking adventure and romance and then find themselves pregnant. Innovative writing and intimate stories of encounters with gender, race, and cultural difference - and the entanglements of tourism and reproduction - make Bloom Spaces a welcome addition to tourism and mobility studies."" - Florence E. Babb, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill"