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Without any doubt, terrorism causes higher levels of anxiety and very well enhances our fears as never before. The post 9/11 context witnesses the multiplication of xenophobic expressions, such as Islamophobia or tourist-phobia, only to name a few. These expressions result from a culture of intolerance, which not only was enrooted in the ideological core of western capitalism but was accelerated just after 9/11. Some voices emphasize the needs of employing technology to make this world a safer place. This chapter goes in a contradictory direction. The authors focus on the ethical limitations of technologies when they are subordinated to the ideals of zero-risk society. Echoing Sunstein and Altheide, the authors hold the thesis that the precautionary principle has invariably created a paradoxical condition where "the invented fears" transformed in the basic grounds of a new stage of capitalism.

A critical review of the book titled "Magical Realist Sociologies of Belonging and Becoming: The Explorer" and authored by Rodanthi Tzanelli. Based on this review, this book discuss in-depth a structural dualism that not only helps us to expand our understanding and dichotomies around the problem of ecology and climate change but gives a clear diagnosis on the Western magical imaginary in a digital and hyper-global world. At least for this review, Magical realist sociologies of belonging and becoming brings a clear and fresh position to the foreground, scrutinizing on the other side of imperialism as well as the impacts of digital technologies in the daily lifestyle. The darkness says much of the mainstream cultural values of society than we certainly imagine. For those readers concerned by politics and mobilities, this book offers a high-quality and elegantly-written text which articulates magisterially different academic position, viewpoints and theories into an all-encompassing diagnosis. ; SUBMITTED: JUL 2020, ACCEPTED: AUG 2020, PUBLISHED ONLINE: 30 OCT 2020

GABRIEL KESSLER: Controversias sobre la desigualdad: Argentina 2003-2013. Buenos Aires, Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2014.

Over last decades, policy makers in tourism and hospitality acknowledged that terrorism was the worse threat to tourism and West because of many reasons. Terrorism not only affects seriously economies generating unemployment and stagnation in international demand, but also triggers an escalation of violence where all advertisement efforts are backfired. Nevertheless, this essay review explores the historical roots of modern tourism and worker unions to see the point of connection between both. What beyond the boundaries of society is called terrorist attack, inside is named "strike". This review reminds that the origin of terrorism has been coined in West, as a result of capitalism expansion.

Problems to understand social phenomenon associates to our misconceptions, stereotypes and prejudices imposed during our early socialization. This happens not only with tourism which is valorized as a right of all citizens in modern societies, but also with terrorism, judged as the main threat of West. However, what would happen if both would be different sides of the same coin? This essay review explores the roots of tourism and terrorism during the process of unionization in US. What on one hand resulted in a hyper-mobile process that shore up tourism, on another was a desesperate attempt to struggle against terrorism. In this vein, it is safe to say that tourism is terrorism by other means.

The aim of this paper is to investigate the problem of being an American (from Unite States of America) abroad. It is considered that the Anglo ethnocentrism combines both pride for belonging to a group of selected people, with the fear of being a victim of foreign attacks. In order to validate the elements that are part of the Anglo-center, it was done a deep review on the book written by Charles Robert Temple, published in 1961, Americans Abroad. This document lets us view clearly the five Anglo ethnocentrism components: a) democracy as a way of understanding, b) the purchasing power as an expression of belonging, c) curiosity for other cultures d) virtue as a means and instance of life, and e) the fear of traveling or residing abroad. ; En la presente nota de investigación se estudia el problema de ser estadounidense en el extranjero. Se considera que el etnocentrismo anglo combina tanto el orgullo por pertenecer a un grupo de elegidos, con el temor por ser presa de ataques extranjeros. Para validar los elementos que forman parte del anglo-centrismo, se realiza una revisión profunda del libro de Charles Robert Temple, publicado en 1961, Americans Abroad. Este verdadero documento permite visualizar con claridad los cinco componentes del etnocentrismo anglo: a) la democracia como forma de entendimiento, b) el poder adquisitivo en tanto expresión de pertenencia, c) la curiosidad por otras culturas, d) la virtud como forma ejemplar de vida, y e) el temor a viajar o residir en el extranjero.