Climate change and anger: misogyny and the dominant growth paradigm in tourism

Abstract

Emotions provoke change, yet are often discredited at best and demonized at worst in modernity and positivism. We currently face a global climate crisis – one so dangerous that biocultural diversity is at risk of permanent extinction. The reality we now face in the Anthropocene warrants anger. Yet, female-identifying activists, educators, scientists, philosophers, community leaders, and beyond face a litany of macro and microaggressions publicly when they speak out for systemic economic, political, social and scientific change. Anger from women is habitually and publicly discredited and mocked, whereas anger against women is consistently accepted and validated. Tourism is a system that is based on the late-capitalist paradigm of valuating and profiting from the exploitation of biocultural diversity and social inequities in its current market-based, growth-focused structure. This paper explores the intersectionality of anger, climate change and tourism from the perspective of the misogyny of late capitalism.