The political economy of dive tourism: precarity at the periphery in Malaysia
Hampton, M.P. Jeyacheya, Julia Lee, Donna
Hampton, M.P.
Jeyacheya, Julia
Lee, Donna
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2017
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Using a critical political economy approach and the concept of labour
precarity, the international dive tourism industry in Sabah, Malaysia
and its workers’ vulnerabilities are interrogated. Fieldwork data
highlights dive tourism’s socio-economic impacts and the precarity of
labour within the international tourism sector and also critiques it as
a development strategy for a peripheral region. The paper challenges
the optimistic views of labour precarity found in the existing political
economy literature. Rather than identifying labour empowerment,
evidence demonstrates significant worker vulnerability, uncertainty,
and contingency – especially among ethnic minorities – resulting
from Malaysia’s state-led rentier economy.
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Hampton MP, Jeyacheya J and Lee D (2017) The political economy of dive tourism: precarity
at the periphery in Malaysia. Tourism Geographies. Accepted for publication.
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