Bloom Spaces
Reproduction and Tourism on the Caribbean Coast of Costa Rica

By (author) Susan Frohlick

ISBN13: 9781487549695

Imprint: University of Toronto Press

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Published: 05/01/2024

Availability: Out of stock

Description
Tourism generates intense atmospheric relations between people and places. Exploring the complex nature of these relations, Bloom Spaces considers the experiences of women who travel to Costa Rica in search of health and wellness, and find that it leads to unexpected pregnancy. The book probes the ways that the reproductive experience resonates with powerful tourist imaginaries of the Caribbean and multisensory environments of culture and place. Inviting readers into a world of yoga studios, beaches, and rainforests, Susan Frohlick investigates how atmosphere can create “bloom spaces” that lead tourists down reproductive paths. Through an experimental approach that combines creative nonfiction, poetry, photography, and narrative ethnographic writing, this book seeks to capture the feelings and sensations that influence reproduction in tourist destinations. Ultimately, the book urges a rethinking of tourism that takes reproduction into consideration, highlighting the multiple actors involved and the inequities that are reproduced.
Preface Introduction Chapter One: Prelude / Getting in a Tropical Yoga Mood Chapter One: Yoga and Atmospheric Openings Chapter One: Postlude / Pulled by a White Undercurrent? Chapter Two: Prelude / A “Jungle Mood” Sets In Chapter Two: The Visceral Energy of the Jungle: Senses, Sounds, Rhythms, Life Chapter Two: Postlude / As Though “Natural” Chapter Three: Prelude / The Magical Something of a Caribbean Beach Chapter Three: The Caribbean Beach: Reverberating with Possibilities Chapter Three: Postlude / Beaches that Resonate with Life (and Death) Chapter Four: Prelude / Promising Difference Chapter Four: Shimmers-and-Promises and (Cultural) Bloom Spaces Chapter Four: Postlude / A Bitter Aftertaste Conclusion Notes References
  • Gender studies, gender groups
  • Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
  • Gender studies: transsexuals & hermaphroditism
  • Professional & Vocational
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
Height:226
Width:152
Spine:15
Weight:340.00
List Price: £17.99