Global Coordination and Regulation of Tourism: Radicalizing Kant’s Cosmopolitanism

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Published: Nov 12, 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6035/Recerca.2021.26.1.2
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tourism, regulation, cosmopolitanism, Kant, Deleuze

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Tazim Jamal
Texas A&M University
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6277-2247
Jaume Guia
Universitat de Girona y University of Johannesburg
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6039-4393

Abstract

Tourism is a complex phenomenon in scale and scope. Interrelated with other systems (ecological, social, economic, political) from the local to the global, its impacts and effects transcend borders, making coordination and regulation highly challenging. Global mobilities (both physical and virtual) and neoliberal globalization further complicate enabling just and sustainable tourism. New forms of governance are needed to address global threats like climate change and pandemics. This paper explores Immanuel Kant’s transcendental perspective on “perpetual peace” and traces his evolving cosmopolitanism over a decade of essays. We then turn towards what appears to be a contradictory, immanent posthumanist approach from Gilles Deleuze. Radicalizing Kant using Deleuze leads to a different concept of ‘normativity’, grounded in an ideal of perpetual self-critique and self-creation. Such a critical, affirmative ethic opens possibilities for situated approaches to cosmopolitan rights and global justice, rather than global regulatory structures to coordinate effective and proactive actions. 

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Jamal, T., & Guia, J. (2020). Global Coordination and Regulation of Tourism: Radicalizing Kant’s Cosmopolitanism. RECERCA. Revista De Pensament I Anàlisi, 26(1), 9–31. https://doi.org/10.6035/Recerca.2021.26.1.2
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Vol. 26 No. 1 (2021): Ethics of Tourism in Times of Social Acceleration
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Tazim Jamal, Texas A&M University

Tazim Jamal is a Professor in the Department of Recreation, Park and Tourism Sciences at Texas A&M University, Texas, USA. Her primary research interests lie in the area of sustainable tourism and collaborative tourism planning. She is a Fellow of the International Academy for the Study of Tourism.

Jaume Guia, Universitat de Girona y University of Johannesburg

Dr. Jaume Guia is an Associated Professor at the University of Girona. He is Programme Director of the Erasmus Mundus European Master’s in Tourism Management (EMTM) and Scientific Director of the Tourism Research Campus at the same university. He has published articles in leading academic journals on a variety of topics including destination governance, cross-border destinations, destination place making, destination image, or tourism networks and clusters. Currently he is leading a research programme on tourism in contested places and the meaning of responsible tourism in those situations.

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