On Tourism and Global Exploitation

How are tourism and coloniality connected to patriarchy and capitalism?

Managing the Global South

The connection to the latter is pretty obvious - tourism, particularly in the Global South, is rooted in the exploitation of natural resourcfor example zoos, safaris, and so-called nature parks).

This exploitation is never referred to as such, but rather as the ‘managing’ untouched resources. It is often backed by ugly and cringy sentences like “local people would never take advantage of this anyway” or “people who live here do not have the capability/capacity to manage a big, proper business.” Not once does it cross their mind that perhaps in these places, it is not ‘obvious’ to exploit this is where the opposition between nature and humans, and the blinding focus on growth and career, are not the main drivers of a society.

Tourism, once again particularly in the “Global South”, also relies on the exploitation of “cheap” labour. This practice is also just how much people get paid here”, “everyone pays this amount”, and perhaps the ugliest one: “for them it’s better to have this income than no income at all”, implying that if it weren’t for tourism “local” people would starve to death and just have nothing “productive” to do.

Managing working women

The connection to patriarchy might seem Here comes my personal experience, poparents own and manage two hotels on the tropical paradise island of Zanzibar.

The reason why they came up with this idea wanted was to continue climbing up the career ladder and girlbossing. Perhaps she also wanted to earn money to keep her familyary consideration.

‘obvious’ to exploit every bit of nature

But then why would a woman with higher education, living in Warsaw, with 20 years of work experience, suddenly not be able to she gave birth to her third child. For a woman working in managerial positions in marketing, this was no less than a career death sentence — especially in such a “youth” and “relevance” obsessed domain as advertising.

Don’t get me wrong here, I am in no way try- ment by exploiting the resources and workers of Zanzibar. I am simply trying to trace the roots of “Global South” tourism, along with many other exploitative, hierarchical, and immoral phenomena, to patriarchy and white capitalism. promoting men due to their age or exact same reasons?"

My father, who had his third child at the brick wall. He could easily continue working in the same positions he was in before. Not only that, but bigger and better-paid doors were actually opening for him due to over 20 years of experience he had acquired in his

Why, then, is the job market promoting men women for the exact same reasons? Ageing, for men, is almost always associated with experience and growing authority. For women, on the other hand, it is associated with losing relevance and the girlish energy they once used to have.

And this is how in one page, it becomes fairly clear that the answer to most questions about exploitation and abuse of power can be traced back to capitalism and its embeddedness in patriarchy. A system that makes people obsessed with career-building and authority only to kick them out onto the street when they lose what’s considered “relevance”. A system in which "relevance" is innately tied to gender and race.