Imaginaries reconfigured: development and resistance in Myanmar tourism KU Leuven
Following advances in the anthropological study of tourism ‘imaginaries’ and renewed focus on the dispossession and inequality wrought by development, this project takes an ethnographic approach in examining how imaginaries motivate, structure, and justify tourism development. Actively unfolding sociocultural formations and processes of development are surveyed with a case study in Dawei District, southern Myanmar, generating novel insights ...