Workers pull tourists through the meadows of Gulmarg, a popular skiing destination in Jammu and Kashmir on 7 February 2021.Photo: SOPA Images Limited/Alamy

A holiday in Kashmir

The Indian state’s determination to promote Kashmir as a tourist destination is part of a larger strategy to legitimize its continued military occupation, writes Pranay Somayajula.

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NI 546 - Spying on dissent - November, 2023
Illustration: Emma Peer

Agony Uncle: Does international ‘voluntourism’ do more harm than good?

Ethical and political dilemmas abound these days. Seems like we’re all in need of a New Internationalist perspective. Enter stage: Agony Uncle.

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NI 533 - Food justice: who gets to eat? - September, 2021
Tourists and photographers zoom in on wildlife at the Mara river during the great wildebeest migration, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya.Photo: Eric Baccega/Alamy

Beyond the tourist trail

Graeme Green speaks with local experts about why wildlife protection in Africa and Asia must push beyond relying on international visitors and foreign professionals towards sustainable, locally led initiatives.

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NI 529 - The biodiversity emergency - January, 2021
Tee time in Bali: a
tourist plays golf from a
tee surrounded by paddy
fields. Farmland is being
sacrificed to make way for
development – leading to
soaring food prices.Murdani Usman / Reuters

Boom Times in Bali

Life has changed on the 'island paradise'- but foreign investment is not all it's cracked up to be. Jamie James looks beyond the tourist brochures.

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NI 450 - Time for a fair economy - March, 2012

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Spying on dissent November, 2023
Food justice: who gets to eat? September, 2021
The biodiversity emergency January, 2021
Time for a fair economy March, 2012
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