Despite the urgency to embrace a more just, sustainable, tourism, the place of the relationship between space and mobility within ethical tourism research has not yet received a sufficiently forceful reflection. In this lecture I propose a novel theoretical framework that combines several theoretical frames of reference with the posthuman, affirmative, ethics of Rosi Braidotti, while also drawing on aspects of Field Theory/ Hodological Space in the topological psychology of Kurt Lewin. Beginning with an overview of the sociological space of tourism, articulated by neoliberal capitalism, through a critique built upon the spatial turn in the social sciences, arguing that space is relational, imbued with power geometries, the product of interrelations, and always under construction.

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