Urbanization has set in motion many kinds of commercial activities, including tourism. Paradoxically, tourism takes advantage of all that urbanization has left behind, selling places and spaces that are not touched by urbanization, which have been spared the spread of the concrete jungle. In this chapter, Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) have been taken as an example to show how tourism is infiltrating non-urban, peripheral regions and commodifying nature as well as those who live close to it. It has been shown how the Indigenous people of this region are being further marginalized and exploited by the intrusion of tourists from the urban areas who, while looking for arcadian utopias actually end up exploiting and degrading the very environment that they have come looking for. Curated spectacles actually distort the actual and the natural in order to cater to the expectations of the urban tourists. Women bear a greater brunt of the negative impacts of tourism, and as shown, power, patriarchy, and capitalism intersect to make the Indigenous women open to exploitation. Both women and nature are degraded by this intrusion of urbanization in the form of tourism, even while it encourages entrepreneurship, enhances livelihoods, and adds to state revenue. In this chapter, the present situation of tourism and urban intrusion is discussed against the historical backdrop of the continued marginalization of CHT by the dominant population of Bangladesh.

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Indigenous Women’s Struggles in the Changing Tourism Landscape of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh

  • Farhana Alam,
  • Dhanista Chakma,
  • Md. Sajid Sultan Haque

摘要

Urbanization has set in motion many kinds of commercial activities, including tourism. Paradoxically, tourism takes advantage of all that urbanization has left behind, selling places and spaces that are not touched by urbanization, which have been spared the spread of the concrete jungle. In this chapter, Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) have been taken as an example to show how tourism is infiltrating non-urban, peripheral regions and commodifying nature as well as those who live close to it. It has been shown how the Indigenous people of this region are being further marginalized and exploited by the intrusion of tourists from the urban areas who, while looking for arcadian utopias actually end up exploiting and degrading the very environment that they have come looking for. Curated spectacles actually distort the actual and the natural in order to cater to the expectations of the urban tourists. Women bear a greater brunt of the negative impacts of tourism, and as shown, power, patriarchy, and capitalism intersect to make the Indigenous women open to exploitation. Both women and nature are degraded by this intrusion of urbanization in the form of tourism, even while it encourages entrepreneurship, enhances livelihoods, and adds to state revenue. In this chapter, the present situation of tourism and urban intrusion is discussed against the historical backdrop of the continued marginalization of CHT by the dominant population of Bangladesh.