Edited by Heather Mair, Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies, University of Waterloo, Canada

• Contents:1 Introduction: understanding rural community development andtourism in challenging times 1Heather MairPART I CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS2 Understanding rural communities 15Michael Woods3 Understanding rural tourism 29Donald G. Reid4 Understanding rural development 41Kelly Vodden, Mery Angeles Perez and Brady ReidPART II EPISTEMOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS,PARADIGMS, AND WORLDVIEWS5 Post-positivism and mixed methods research in rural tourism 62Girish Prayag6 Interpretive approaches to research with rural communities:privileging emotion in tourism encounters 76Meghan Muldoon7 Decolonial pedagogies as a pathway to transformationallearning for rural community and tourism development 88Christine N. Buzinde8 Interpreting the social impacts of tourism-led ruralregeneration: the case of the Alps to Ocean (A2O) Cycle Trail 99Michael Mackay, Nick Taylor, Harvey C. Perkins and Tracy Nelson9 Building rapport à soi: thinking critically about ruralcommunity tourism development 113Keith Hollinshead and Heather Mair10 Refusing tourism 125tebrakunna country, Emma Lee and Bryan S.R. GrimwoodPART III KEY CONCEPTUALIZATIONS11 Gender and rural tourism 140Katherine Dashper12 Food, tourism, and rural community development: closeencounters of the nourishing kind? 153Jennifer Sumner13 Heritage, heritage interpretation and rural tourism 166Bernard Lane14 Climate change 180Mark C.J. Stoddart and Yixi Yang15 Tourism: vulnerability and resiliency in rural regions 194David W. Marcouiller16 Degrowing rural tourism development: thinking globally tosave the local 205Alexander Safonov and C. Michael Hall17 Understanding a multifunctional rural tourism landscape:a case study of the Upper Hunter Valley, NSW, Australia 218Sinead Francis-Coan and Annæ Buchmann18 Creatively regenerating St. Jacobs Village 235Tawsif Dowla and Karla A. BolukPART IV PROCESSES AND PRACTICES19 Ethical considerations for rural community tourism 254Tazim Jamal and Blanca Camargo20 Sustainable tourism development in rural areas: an alternativeparadigm using the appreciative inquiry approach 272Roslizawati Che Aziz21 Tourism governance for rural community well-being:challenges and creative opportunities 286Gianna Moscardo22 “Salvaging” presence: tourism as regional developmentstrategies for rural communities 301Dominic Lapointe23 Rural communities, tourism, and the roles of academics 316Bernard LanePART V EMERGING MATTERS AND NEW DIRECTIONS24 Community events, rural–urban interdependencies, and ruralcommunity development 332Kyle Rich25 Centering animals within rural tourism 344Carol Kline26 Shifting from benefiting to serving community: a case ofregenerative tourism and building cultural capital through theChildren’s University Tasmania 359Can-Seng Ooi and Becky Shelley27 Exploring the regenerative practices of Canadian womentourism social entrepreneurs: a feminist ethic of care 373Karla A. Boluk, Gaurav Panse, and Sung Eun Jeon28 Transforming a dogsledding community: the ‘Gafsele Open’and lifestyle migrants in sparsely populated northern Sweden 386Marco Eimermann, Doris A. Carson and Linda Lundmark29 Traveling workers as rural tourists: extending understandingsfrom Tibetan travelers 403Xiaotao Yang30 Conclusion: inspiring a radical politics ofcommunity-controlled rural tourism 417Heather MairIndex

‘Stretching well beyond the typical examination of rural tourist experiences, the authors of this collected volume set rural places and their communities front and center, driving home the message that there is no such thing as ‘good’ tourism development if it is not good for local lives and livelihoods. Both students and seasoned researchers will appreciate the book’s conceptual and epistemological content—a rarity in a research area that has largely focused on case studies. Particularly noteworthy for its global reach and inclusion of Indigenous and Black voices advocating for decolonization, this book is sure to become the foundational text on rural tourism in the post-Covid rebuild.’