Open AccessGlobal Coordination and Regulation of Tourism: Radicalizing Kant’s Cosmopolitanism
Author(s) -
Tazim Jamal,
Jaume Guía Julve
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
recerca
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.186
H-Index - 5
eISSN - 2254-4135
pISSN - 1130-6149
DOI - 10.6035/recerca.2021.26.1.2
Subject(s) - cosmopolitanism , situated , globalization , sociology , sovereignty , environmental ethics , hybridity , politics , tourism , transcendental number , epistemology , political science , law , philosophy , artificial intelligence , computer science , anthropology
Tourism is a complex phenomenon in scale and scope. Interrelated with other systems (ecological, social, economic, political) from the local to the global, its impacts and effects transcend borders, making coordination and regulation highly challenging. Global mobilities (both physical and virtual) and neoliberal globalization further complicate enabling just and sustainable tourism. New forms of governance are needed to address global threats like climate change and pandemics. This paper explores Immanuel Kant’s transcendental perspective on “perpetual peace” and traces his evolving cosmopolitanism over a decade of essays. We then turn towards what appears to be a contradictory, immanent posthumanist approach from Gilles Deleuze. Radicalizing Kant using Deleuze leads to a different concept of ‘normativity’, grounded in an ideal of perpetual self-critique and self-creation. Such a critical, affirmative ethic opens possibilities for situated approaches to cosmopolitan rights and global justice, rather than global regulatory structures to coordinate effective and proactive actions.