Creating feelings of inclusion in adventure tourism: Lessons from the gendered sensory and affective politics of professional mountaineering
研究通过移动视频、访谈和反思性民族志，考察专业女性登山者身体被分级时的感官与情感政治，揭示男性化理想如何要求女性在高风险环境中进行情感劳动，从而影响探险空间的包容性。
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.