In Encounters across Difference Natalia Bloch examines tourism encounters in the informal sector in India and their potential to empower subaltern communities. Drawing from ethnographic evidence in Hampi and Dharamshala Bloch explores the potential of tourism to promote political engagement volunteering sponsorship local entrepreneurship and womenampamprsquos empowerment. Contrary to the frequent criticism of tourism to the Global South as a colonial practice Bloch argues that workers and small entrepreneurs in displaced communities see tourists as allies in their political struggles and on a more individual level as an opportunity to build better lives.For more information check out A Conversation with Natalia Bloch author of Encounters across Difference Tourism and Overcoming Subalternity in India.