Mobility and Globalization in the Aftermath of COVID-19: Emerging New Geographies in a Locked World

✍ Scribed by Maximiliano E. Korstanje, Babu George

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 205
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book argues that COVID-19 revives a much deeper climate of terror which was instilled by terrorism and the War on Terror originally declared by Bush's administration in 2001. It discusses critically not only the consequences of COVID-19 on our daily lives but also “the end of hospitality”, at least as we know it.

Since COVID-19 started spreading across the globe, it affected not only the tourism industry but also ground global trade to a halt. Governments adopted restrictive measures to stop the spread of the virus, including the closure of borders, and airspace, the introduction of strict lockdowns and social distancing, much of which led to large-scale cancellations of international and domestic flights. This book explores how global tourists, who were largely considered ambassadors of democratic and prosperous societies in the pre-pandemic days, have suddenly become undesired guests.

✦ Table of Contents

Foreword 1: COVID, Passports, and Terror
Foreword 2: The Grand Experiment
Acknowledgment
Contents
Chapter 1: Mobility in and of the Empire: A Colonialist History of Mobility
Introduction
Civilizations, Rise and the Fall of Giants
European Colonialism, Knowledge, and Travels
Hospitality and the West: A Difficult Relationship
Conclusion
References
Chapter 2: The Colonial Voyages
Introduction
The Invention of the Radical “Other”
Travels, Discoveries, and Leisure Time
Toward a Theory of Leisure Travels
Conclusion
References
Chapter 3: Pay Now, Consume Later: The Power of Delayed Gratification
Introduction
The Nature of the Liberal Market (State)?
From a Society of Producers to a Society of Consumers
The Future Governs Us: Pay Now but Consume Later
All-Inclusive Tours and Tourism
Conclusion
References
Chapter 4: Tourist Gaze Reconsidered
Introduction
John Urry and the Tourist Gaze
Contributions and Contradictions of Mobilities Theory
Toward a New Conception of Mobilities
The War Against a Virus? Conclusion
What Has Finally Changed with the COVID-19 Outbreak?
References
Chapter 5: Terrorism and the Allegory of the Lone Wolf: From 9/11 to COVID-19
Introduction
A Return of the Non-Western Other and Colonialism
The Lone Wolf
La lenta agonia de los peces
Is COVID-19 a Foundational Event?
Conclusion
References
Chapter 6: Mobilities and Globalization in the Aftermath of COVID-19
Introduction
Initial Discussion
The Essence of Hospitality, New Dialogues with Derrida
Of Hospitality
The Virus as an Undesired “Other”
The Undesired Guest
Re-feudalization Process
Pay Today While Traveling Tomorrow
Conclusion
References
Chapter 7: COVID-19, Terrorism, and Conspiracy Plot: Everyone Is Guilty Until Proven Innocent
Introduction
Of Hospitality?
Conspiracies and Literature
Secrecy and Detective Stories in Review
Conclusion
References
Chapter 8: Let Me in! The Affirmation of a Radical “Other”
Introduction
A Short Debate: COVID-19 and Tourism
Let Me in
Thanaptopic Society
Methodological Discussion
Argentina as the Main Case Study
Tourist Stranded
The Gaze of an Undesired Guest (Wicked Gaze)
Geopolitical Tensions
A Thanaptopic Society
The War Against a Virus
The New Borders of Tourism?
Conclusion
References
Chapter 9: Conclusion
References
Epilogue: New Travel Behavior in the Era of COVID-19
References
Index