Toxic tourism and community

Pezzullo remarks that "the space of the toxic tour [in Louisiana] provides opportunities to negotiate a sense of community with those being toured and between those on the tour itself." It works through "naming, framing/elevation, enshrinement, mechanical reproduction, and social reproduction (Tourist 44–5)  [...] and the particular importance of tour guides’ verbal performances to this transformative process" (2003, 228)