Tourism, mobile livelihoods and ‘disorderly’ development in the Colca Valley, Peru

Debates about tourism and rural development in Latin America commonly represent peasant or indigenous populations as socially cohesive but economically unsophisticated, implying that they require outside assistance to engage with tourism. A multi-local or mobile livelihoods approach can help destabilise these representations and draw more attention to the agency and diversity of rural populations. This is illustrated by a case study of tourism...