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Essay 1. Use this reading "Stuck with Tourism by Matilde Córdoba Azcárate" to answer this question
In Stuck with Tourism: Space, Power and Labor in the Contemporary Yucatan, the author Matilde Cordoba Azcarate argues that tourism processes in Cancun employ "Sacrificial Logics". She argues that Sacrificial Logics shape both the challenges and the opportunities that workers in the hotel zone face. 1. Define the term Sacrificial Logics as used in her argument. 2. Provide two examples to show how Sacrificial Logics are forms of power impacting hotel zone workers.
Essay 2. Use this reading "THE DEVIL BEHIND THE MIRROR Globalization and Politics in the Dominican Republic by STEVEN GREGORY" TO ANSWER THIS QUESTION.
In The Devil Behind the Mirror: Globalization and Politics in the Dominican Republic by Steven
Gregory: The author argues that globalization (particularly neoliberal structural adjustment
policies) pushed many residents of Andres and Boca Chica into lower paid service tourism jobs, or into the informal economy. How and in what ways does Gregory link the increase in tourism work in the Dominican Republic to Globalization? Be sure to define all of your terms and provide at least two examples. (In this essay you may draw on other course materials such as Stiglitz, or the film "Life and Debt")
Essay 3. USE THIS READING "Chapter 3 Desire for Danger, Aversion to Harm: Violence in Travel to 'Other' Places BY Kristin Lozanski" TO ANSWER THIS QUESTION
What is the 'rural idyll' and how and in what ways has this been commodified for amenity tourism in Jennifer Sherman's book, "Dividing Paradise: Rural Inequality and the Diminishing American Dream"?
Give two examples within your essay discussing how amenity tourism impacts rural communities.