Hall, Jenny ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5200-4308 and Brown, Katrina Myrvang (2022) Creating feelings of inclusion in adventure tourism: Lessons from the gendered sensory and affective politics of professional mountaineering. Annals of Tourism Research, 97 (103505).

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Abstract

Gender is consequential in adventure tourism, where women are systemically underrepresented. Despite significant attention to the affective experiences of tourists, the gendered differences produced through affective experiences, and their implications for inclusivity in adventure activities and places, has been little explored. To address this, we examine the sensory and emotional politics of grading professional women mountaineers' bodies, and its relationality with managing social and physical risk, through mobile video, interview and reflexive ethnography. We highlight the affective intensities of maintaining professional status, as regulated through prevailing masculine ideals, requiring women to perform significant emotional labour when working in high-risk environments by developing extreme strategies to alleviate stress. This elucidates how power-laden affective relations create and deny inclusion in adventure spaces.

Item Type:	Article
Status:	Published
DOI:	10.1016/j.annals.2022.103505
School/Department:	York Business School
URI:	https://ray.yorksj.ac.uk/id/eprint/7082

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