Geopolitical anxieties of tourism: (Im)mobilities of the COVID-19 pandemic

A co-authored paper contributed by CTR researcher, Prof. Joseph M. Cheer was published in an academic journal, Dialogues in Human Geography.

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Title

Geopolitical anxieties of tourism: (Im)mobilities of the COVID-19 pandemic

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Authors

Mary Mostafanezhad, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA

Joseph M. Cheer,Wakayama University, Japan

Harng Luh Sin, Sun Yat-sen University, China

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Source

Dialogues in Human Geography, 2020, 10:2, pp. 182-186

DOI: 10.1177/2043820620934206

https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820620934206

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Journal details: https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/21100465422

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Abstract

Bringing the political geography of tourism to bear on responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, this commentary reveals how the geopolitical anxieties of tourism are mediated by historical geographies of race as well as contemporary geoeconomic relations and the broader pivot to the Asia-Pacific region.

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Key words

anxiety, COVID-19, geopolitics, geoeconomics, tourism