More thoughts on core-periphery and tourism: Brexit and the UK Overseas Territories

Abstract

This article draws on recent debate in Tourism Recreation Research regarding issues of core-periphery and the sustainability of small island tourism. Using the context of Brexit it is concerned with the core-periphery relationship inasmuch Brexit affects subnational island jurisdictions (SNIJ) on a number of fronts including trade, financial aid, access and mobility, identity and tourism. Framed within a postcolonial lens the paper extends the notion ‘decolonizing without disengaging’ to argue for a ‘revisionary core-periphery’ approach in which periphery becomes re-inscribed by a substantial political shift (Brexit) that inverts, or reimagines peripheral islands as sites of reciprocal power projection. As such, the longstanding core-periphery narrative surrounding small island development is revised in an analysis of Britain’s 14 Overseas Territories including a case study of Pitcairn Island. The paper makes a conceptual and empirical contribution to existing knowledge within tourism studies generally, and more particularly in its study of SNIJ as places of differentiated development processes.

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