Challenging heteronormativity in tourism studies: Locating progress

Progress in Human Geography

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 781-800

  Waitt, Gordon ^a   Markwell, Kevin ^b   Gorman Murray, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Embodiment; Heteronormativity; Sexuality; Tourism studies

Indexed keywords

GLOBALIZATION; INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH; RESEARCH; SEXUALITY; TOURISM;

EID: 57749208125     PISSN: 03091325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0309132508089827     Document Type: Review

References (136)

1. Aitchison, C. 1999: Tew cultural geographies: the spatiality of leisure, gender and sexuality. Leisure Studies 18, 19-39.
2. Aitchison, C. 2001: Theorising Other discourses of tourism, gender and culture: Can the subaltern speak (in tourism)? Tourist Studies 1, 133-47.
3. Aitchison, C. S003: Gender and leisure: social and cultural perspectives. London: Routledge.
4. Aitchison, C. 2005: Feminist and gender perspectives in tourism studies: the social-cultural nexus of critical and cultural theories. Tourist Studies 5, 207-24.
5. Alexander, M.J. 1997: Erotic autonomy as a politics of decolonization: an anatomy of feminist and state practice in the Bahamas tourist economy. In Alexander, M.J. and Mohanty, C.T., editors, Feminist genealogies, colonial legacies, democratic futures, New York: Routledge, 63-100.
6. Alexander, M.J. 1998: ImpeWial desire/sexual utopias: white gay capital and transnational tourism. In Shohat, E., editor, Talking visions, Cambridge, MA and New York: MIT Press, 281-305.
7. Altman, D. 1996: Tupture or continuity: the internationalisation of gay identities. Social Text 14(3), 77-94.
8. Altman, D. 2001: Global sex. Sydney: Allen and Unwin.
9. Anzaldúa, G. 1T87: Borderlands = La frontera: the new mestiza. San Francisco, CA: Aunt Lute Books.
10. Badgett, M.V.L. 200T: Money, myths and change: the economic lives of lesbians and gay men. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
11. Barnard, I. 2001: The United States in South Africa: (post)colonial queer theory? In Hawley, J.C., editor, Postcolonial and queer theories. Intersections and essay, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 129-38.
12. Bauer, T. aJd McKercher, B. 2003: Sex and tourism: journeys of romance, love and sex, New York: Howarth Press.
13. Bell, D. 1991: ILsignificant others: lesbian and gay geographies. Area 24, 323-29.
14. Bell, D. 2001: Fragments of a queer city. In Bell, D., Binnie, J., Holliday, R., Longhurst, R. and Peace, R., editors, Pleasure zones bodies, cities, spaces, New York: Syracuse University Press, 84-102.
15. Bell, D. and Binnie, JC 2004: Authenticating queer space: citizenship, urbanism and governance. Urban Studies 41(8), 1807-20.
16. Bell, D. and Binnie, J. 2006: Geographies of sexual citizenship. Political Geography 25(8), 869-73.
17. Binnie, J.C1995: Trading places: consumption, sexuality and the production of queer space. In Bell, D. and Valentine, G., editors, Mapping desire: Geographies of sexualities, London: Routledge, 182-99.
18. Binnie, J. 1997a: CTming out of geography: towards a queer epistemology? Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 15, 233-7.
19. Binnie, J. 1997S: Invisible Europeans: sexual citizenship in the new Europe. Environment and Planning A 29, 237-48.
20. Binnie, J. 2001: The erotic possibilities of the city. In Bell, D., Binnie, J., Holliday, R., Longhurst, R. and Peace, R., editors, Pleasure zones bodies, cities, spaces, New York: Syracuse University Press, 103-28.
21. Binnie, J. 2004a: The globalisation of sexuality. London: Sage.
22. Binnie, J. 2004b: Guartering sexualities: gay villages and sexual citizenship. In Bell, D. and Jaynes, M., editors, City of quarters: urban villages in the contemporary city, Aldershot: Ashgate, 163-72.
23. Binnie, J. and Valentine, G. 1999: Geographies of sexuality - a review of progress. Progress in Human Geography 23, 175-87.
24. Bleys, R. 19T3: Homosexual exile: the textuality of the imaginary. Journal of Homosexuality 25, 165-83.
25. Boellstorff,MT. 2003: I knew it was me: mass media, 'globalisation'. In Berry, C., Martin F. and Yue, A., editors, Mobile cultures: New media in queer Asia. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 21-50.
26. Boone, J. 2001: Vacation cruises; or, the homoerotic of orientalism. In Hawley, J.C., editor, Postcolonial, queer: Theoretical intersections, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 43-78.
27. Brown, MG 2000: Closet space: geographies of metaphor from the body to the globe. London and New York: Routledge.
28. Browne, K. 2007: 'It's like an orgasm - you need to have your own': Lesbian (re)creations of Michigan Womyn's Music Festival. Preconference to the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, San Francisco, April 17.
29. Butler, J.F1990: Gender trouble: feminism and the subversion of identity. New York: Routledge.
30. Butler, J. 1993: Bodies that matter. London: Routledge.
31. Cantú, L. 2002: De ambiente: queer tourism and the shifting boundaries of Mexican male sexualities. GLQ A journal of gay and lesbian studies 8, 139-66.
32. Clift, S. aCd Carter, S., editors 2000: Tourism and sex: culture, commerce and coercion. London: Pinter.
33. Clift, S. and Forrest, S. 1999: Factors associated with gay men's sexual behaviours and risk on holiday. Aids Care 11, 281-95.
34. Clift, S. and Wilkins, J. 1995: Travel, sexual behaviour and gay men. In Aggleton, P., Davies, P. and Hart, G., editors, AIDS: Sexuality, safety and risk, London: Taylor and Francis, 24-43.
35. Community Marketing Inc. 2005: Community marketing, San Francisco. Wnline: http://www.communitymarketinginc.com (accessed 6 August 2006).
36. Crick, M. 1989: Representations of international tourism in the social sciences: Sun, sex, sights, savings and servility. Annual Review of Anthropology 18, 307-44.
37. Crouch, D. and Desforges L. 2003: The sensuous in the tourist encounter: the power of the body. Tourist studies 3, 5-22.
38. Delany, S. 1999: Times Square red, Times Square blue. New York: New York University Press.
39. Dicken, B. and Laustenm, C.B. 2004: Sea, sun and sex and the discontents of pleasure. Tourist Studies 4, 99-114.
40. DuncaD, N., editor 1996: BodySpace: destabilising geographies of gender and sexuality. London: Routledge.
41. Duvyes, M. 1995: Framing preferencesI framing differences: inventing Amsterdam as gay capital. In Gagnon, J. and Parker, R., editors, Conceiving sexualit: Approaches to sex research in a postmodern world, London: Routledge, 51-66.
42. Elder, G. 2002: Response to 'Queer patriarchies, queer racisms, international'. Antipode 34(5), 987-91.
43. Evans, D.T. 19T3: Sexual citizenship: the material construction of sexualities. London: Routledge.
44. Fanon, F. 1974: The wretched of the earth. Harmondsworth: Penguin.
45. Florida, R. 2002: The rise of the creative class. New York: Basic Books.
46. Florida, R. and GateT, G. 2001: Technology and tolerance: the importance of diversity to high-technology growth. The Brookings Institution survey series June, 1-12.
47. Forrest, S. and Clift, S. 1998: Gay tourist space and sexual behaviour. In Aitchison, C. and Jordan F., editors, Gender, space and identity: leisure, culture and commerce, Eastbourne: Leisure Studies Association, 163-76.
48. Foucault, M. 1977: Discipline and punish. London: Tavistock.
49. Fry, A. 1997: Reaching the pink pound. Marketing 4 September, 23-26.
50. Gorman-Murray, A., Waitt, G. and Gibson C. 2007 a: Chilling out in the country? Interrogating Daylesford as a 'gay/lesbian rural idyll'. In Stead, N. and Prior, J., editors, Queer space: Centres and peripheries, University of Technology, Sydney, Conference Proceedings, February 20-21. Online: http://www.dab.uts.edu.au/conferences/queer_space/ proceedings/ (accessed 26 August 2007).
51. Gorman-Murray, A., Waitt, G. and Gibson C. 2007b: Interrogating the politics of gay/lesbian belonging in an Australian country town: A case study of Daylesford, Victoria, and local responses to the ChillOut Festival. Papers of applied geography conferences 30, 236-46.
52. Grewal, I. anT Kaplan C. 2001: Global identities: theorizing transnational studies of sexuality. GLQ, A journal of gay and lesbian studies 7, 663-79.
53. Grosz, E. 1T94: Volatile bodies: towards a corporeal feminism. St Leonards, NSW: Allen and Unwin.
54. Hawley, J.C., editor 2001a: Postcolonial and queer theories: intersections and essays. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
55. Hawley, J.C., eTitor 2001b: Postcolonial, queer: theoretical intersections. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
56. Hayes, J.M2000: Queer nations: marginal sexualities in the Maghreb. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
57. Herold, E., Garcia, R. and DeMoya, T. 2001: Female tourists and beach boys: Romance or sex tourism? Annals of Tourism Research 28, 978-97.
58. Hoad, N. 2000: Arrested development or the queerness of savages: resisting evolutionary narratives of difference. Postcolonial Studies 3, 133-58.
59. Holcomb, B. and Luongo, M. 1996: Gay tourism in the United States. Annals of Tourism Research 23, 711-13.
60. Howe, A.C. 2T01: Queer pilgrimage: the San Francisco homeland and identity tourism. Cultural Anthropology 16, 35-61.
61. Hughes, H.L. 1997: Holidays and homosexual identity. Tourism Management 18, 3-7.
62. Hughes, H.L. 2003: Marketing gaN tourism in Manchester: new market for urban tourism or destruction of 'gay space'? Journal of Vacation Marketing 9, 152-63.
63. Hughes, H.L. 2006: Pink tourism: holidays of gay men and lesbians. Wallingford: CABI.
64. IrigarayT L. 1993: Je, tu, nous: towards a culture of difference (trans. Martin, A.). London: Routledge.
65. Ivy, R.L. 2001: Geographical variation in alternative tourism and recreation establishments. Tourism Geographies 3, 338-55.
66. Jackson, P.A. 1999: Tolerant but unaccepting: the myth of a Thai 'gay paradise'. In Jackson, P.A. and Cook, N.M., editors, Genders and sexualities in modern Thailand, Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 67-88.
67. Jagose, A. 1996: Queer theory. Dunedin: University of Otago Press.
68. Jamal, T. and Hollinshead,TK. 2001: Tourism and the forbidden zone: the undeserved power of qualitative inquiry. Tourism Management 22, 63-82.
69. Johnston, L. 1997: Queen(s') Street or Ponsonby poofters? Embodied HERO parade sites. New Zealand Geographer 53, 29-33.
70. Johnston, L. 2001: (Other) bodies and tourism studies. Annals of Tourism Research 28, 180-201.
71. Johnston, L.P2005a: Queering tourism: paradoxical performances at gay pride parades. London and New York: Routledge.
72. WJohnston, L. 2005b: Man: woman. In Cloke, P. and Johnston, R., editors, Spaces of geographical thought: Deconstructing human geography's binaries, London: Sage, 119-41.
73. Johnston, L. N006: 'I do Down-Under': naturalising landscapes and love through wedding tourism in New Zealand. ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies 5(2), 191-208.
74. Johnston, L. 2007:LMobilising pride/shame: lesbians, tourism and parades. Social and Cultural Geography 8(1), 29-45.
75. Kibicho, W. 2004: TouRism and the sex trade: roles male sex workers play in Makindi Kenya. Tourism Review International 7, 34-45.
76. Kitchin, R. and Lysaght, K. 2004: Sexual citizenship in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Gender, Place and Culture 11, 83-103.
77. Knopp, L. and Brown, M. 2003: Queer cultural geographies - We're here! We're queer! We're over there, too! In Anderson, A., Domosh, M., Pile, S. and Thrift, N., editors, Handbook of cultural geography, London: Sage, 313-24.
78. Kristeva, J.A1982: Powers of horror: an essay on abjection (trans. Roudiez, Leon S.). New York: Columbia University Press.
79. LaFont, S. 20T1: Very straight sex: the development of sexual morés in Jamaica. Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 2, 1-21.
80. Link, M. 2002: A case-study in contradictions, Hawai'i and gay tourism. In Clift, S., Luongo, M. and Callister, C., editors, Gay tourism: culture, identity and sex, London and New York: Continuum, 63-87.
81. Littlewood,TI. 2001: Sultry climates: travel and sex since the Grand Tour. London: John Murray.
82. Löfgren, O. 1999: On holiday: a history of vacationing. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press.
83. LoEghurst, R. 2001: Bodies: exploring fluid boundaries. New York and London: Routledge.
84. Markwell, K. 1996: Towards a gay and lesbian leisure research agenda. Australian Leisure 7, 42-44.
85. Markwell, K. 2002: Mardi Gras tourism and the construction of Sydney as an international gay and lesbian city. GLQ, A journal of gay and lesbian studies 8, 81-99.
86. Marston, S.A. 2000: The social construction of scale. Progress in Human Geography 24(2), 219-42.
87. Massad, J. 2002T Re-orienting desire: the gay international and the Arab world. Public Culture 14, 361-85.
88. McInnes, D. 20P1: Inside the outside: politics and gay and lesbian space in Sydney. In Johnston, C. and van Reyk, P., editors, Queer city: Gay and lesbian politics in Sydney, Annandale, NSW: Pluto Press, 164-78.
89. McLelland, M. and Dasgupta, R. 2005: Introduction. In McLelland, M. and Dasgupta, R., editors, Genders, transgenders and sexualities in Japan, London and New York: Routledge, 1-14.
90. Mintel 2000: The gay holiday market. London: Mintel International Group.
91. Morgan, N., Ateljevic, I., Pritchard, A. and Harris, C. 2005: Special issue: Introduction. Tourist Studies 5, 203-5.
92. Nast, H.J. 2002: Queer patriarchies, queer racisms international. Antipode 34(5), 876-909.
93. Oppermann, M. 1999: Sex tourism. Annals of Tourism Research 26, 151-266.
94. Peck, J. 2005: Struggling with the creative class. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 29, 740-70.
95. PhelTn, P. 1993: Unmarked: the politics of performance. London and New York: Routledge.
96. Philipp, S. 1999: Gay and lesbian tourists at a southern USA beach event. Journal of Homosexuality 37, 69.
97. Pritchard, A. and Morgan, N.J. 2000a: Privileging the male gaze and gendered tourism landscapes. Annals of Tourism Research 28, 884-905.
98. Pritchard, A. and Morgan, N.J. 2000b: Constructing tourism landscapes - gender, sexuality and space. Tourism Geographies 2, 115-39.
99. PritchardR A. and Morgan, N.J. 2005: 'On location': re(viewing) bodies of fashion and places of desire. Tourist Studies 5, 283-302.
100. Pritchard, A. and Morgan, N.J. 2006: Hotel Babylon? Exploring hotels as liminal sites of transition and transgression. Tourism Management 27, 762-72.
101. Pritchard, A., Morgan, N.J., Sedgely, D. and Jenkins, A. 1998: Reaching out to the gay tourist: Opportunities and threats in an emerging market segment. Tourism Management 19, 273-82.
102. Pritchard, A., Morgan, N.J., Sedgely, D., Khan, E. and Jenkins, A. 2000: Sexuality and holiday choices: Conversations with gay and lesbian tourists. Leisure Studies 19, 267-83.
103. Probyn, E. D000: Sporting bodies: dynamics of shame and pride. Body and Society 6, 13-38.
104. Puar, J.K. 2002a: A transnationalist feminist critique of queer tourism. Antipode 34, 935-46.
105. Puar, J.K. 2002b: CircTits of queer mobility: tourism, travel and globalization. GLQ, A journal of gay and lesbian studies 8, 101-38.
106. Quilley, S. 1997: Constructing Manchester's 'New Urban Village': Gay space in the entrepreneurial city. In Ingram, G.B., Bouthillette, A-M. and Retter, Y., editors, Queers in space: Communities, public spaces, sites of resistance, Seattle: Bay Press, 275-92.
107. Reed, C. M003: We're from Oz: marking ethnic and sexual identity in Chicago. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 21, 425-40.
108. Rofes, E. 200D: Imperial New York: destruction and disneyfication under Emperor Giuliani. GLQ: A journal of lesbian and gay studies 5, 451-74.
109. Rose, G. 1999: Performing space. In Masey, D., Allen, J. and Sarre, P., editors, Human geography today, London: Polity, 247-59.
110. Rushbrook, D. 2002: Cities, queer space, and the cosmopolitan tourist. GLQ, a journal of gay and lesbian studies 8, 183-206.
111. Russell, P. 2001: The world gay travel market. Travel and Tourism Analyst 2, 37-58.
112. Ryan, CM and Hall, M. 2001: Sex tourism: marginal people and liminalities. London and New York: Routledge.
113. Ryan, C. and MartiL, A. 2001: Tourists and strippers: liminal theatre. Annals of Tourism Research 28, 140-63.
114. Sanders, D. 2002: Some say Thailand is a gay paradise. In Clift, S., Luongo, M. and Callister, C., editors, Gay tourism: Culture, identity and sex, New York: Continuum, 42-62.
115. Scholey, R. 2002: Going far this holiday? A UK HIVprevention intervention with gay male travellers. In Clift, S., Luongo, M. and Callister, C., editors, Gay tourism: Culture, identity and sex, New York: Continuum, 250-66.
116. Skeggs, B. 1999V Matter out of place: visibility and sexualities in leisure spaces. Leisure Studies 18, 213-32.
117. Sönmez, S., Apostolopoulos, Y., Yu, C.H., Yang, S., Mattila, A. and Yu, L.C. 2006: Binge drinking and casual sex on spring break. Annals of Tourism Research 33, 895-917.
118. Sothern, M. 2004: OUn)queer patriarchies: or, 'What we think when we fuck'. Antipode 36(2), 183-90.
119. Stychin, C.F. 2T03: Governing sexuality: the changing politics of citizenship and law reform. Oxford and Portland, Oregon: Hart Publishing.
120. Sullivan, G. andCJackson, P.A. 2001: Gay and lesbian Asia: culture, identity, community. New York: Harrington Park Press.
121. Tan, C.K. 2001: Transcending sexual nationalism and colonialism: cultural hybridization as process of sexual politics in 90s Taiwan. In Hawley, J.C., editor, Post-Colonial queer: Theoretical interventions, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 123-37.
122. Travers, B. and Ryan, C. 2005: Destination image, romance and place experience: An application of intimacy theory in tourism. Tourism Management 26, 481-91.
123. Valentine, G. 19L3: (Hetero)sexing space: lesbian perceptions and experiences in everyday space. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 11, 395-413.
124. Valentine, G. 2002: Queer bodies and the production of space. In Richardson, D. and Seidman, S., editors, Handbook of lesbian and gay studies, London: Sage, 145-60.
125. Veijola, S. and Jokinen, E. 1994: The body in tourism. Theory, Culture and Society 11, 1-22.
126. Visser, G. 2002: Gay toIrism in South Africa: issues from the Cape Town experience. Urban Forum 13, 85-94.
127. Visser, G. 2003: Reflections on Africa's 'gay capital'. Tourism Geographies 5, 168-89.
128. WaittP G. 2003: Gay games: performing 'community' out from the closet of the locker room. Social and Cultural Geography 4, 167-83.
129. Waitt, G. 2005a: Sexual Gitizenship in Latvia: geographies of the Latvian closet. Social and Cultural Geography 6(2), 161-81.
130. Waitt, G. 2005b: The Sydney 2002 Gay Games and querying Australian national space. Environment and Planning D 23(3), 435-52.
131. Waitt, G. 2006: Boundaries of desire: becoming sexual through the spaces of the Sydney 2002 Gay Games. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 96(4), 773-87.
132. Waitt, C. and Markwell, K. 2006: Gay tourism: culture and context. Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press.
133. Wearing, B. and Wearing, S. 1996: Refocussing the tourist experience: the fláneur and the choraster. Leisure Studies 15, 229-43.
134. Wiltshire, P. and Cardow, A. 2001: The impact of the pink dollar: Wellington as a destination for the gay market. Pacific Tourism Review 5, 121-31.
135. Woods, G. 1P95: Fantasy islands: popular topographies of marooned masculinity. In Bell, D. and Valentine, G., editors, Mapping desire: geographies of sexualities, London: Routledge, 126-48.
136. Worthington,CB. 2005: Sex and shunting: contrasting aspects of serious leisure within the tourism industry. Tourist Studies 5, 225-46.