Great Smoky Mountains National Park and its Missing Black Visitors: A Preliminary Analysis on the Hidden Architecture of Landscape

Sultana, Selima; Merced, Josh; Weber, Joe; Allen, Ridwaana; Carlton, Gregory

doi:10.1353/sgo.2023.0003

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“…A study looking at Great Smoky Mountain National Park in Tennessee found that it has "missing Black visitors" and identifies that the numbers show an underrepresentation of Black people compared to other ethnicities (Weber and Sultana 2013). This work was reviewed ten years later and elaborated the potential reasons for this underrepresentation, particularly how the lack of representation in archival documents, publicly available literature, and interpretive exhibits supports the notion of parks as white spaces (Sultana et al 2023). However, some other Black geography work argues that there is a prevailing myth of black underrepresentation in protected areas, when the reality is that of white overrepresentation and an erasure of Black history with the outdoors and wilderness (Lee 2023).…”

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Subaltern Perspectives of Geographic Thought on Protected Areas Tourism

Kannarr

2024

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Geography, like all established academic disciplines, has been dominated for centuries by research and researchers that come from a Western, settler-colonial perspective. Most of the literature and public knowledge about national parks, protected areas, and tourism as we know it are centered in this normative perspective, and many of us have not yet had the opportunity to consider subaltern perspectives to these topics. Here in this work I utilize an analogy of postmodern and poststructuralist theory through the lens of Black geographies and Indigenous geographies to explore other knowledges and the knowledge creation of protected areas and the tourism industry to these sites. I find that our greater understanding of protected areas at large is enriched by disrupting the dominant settler-colonial narrative and integrating knowledges contributed by Black and Indigenous scholarship.

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Section: Black Geographies and Protected Areas Tourismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Subaltern Perspectives of Geographic Thought on Protected Areas Tourism

Kannarr

2024

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Great Smoky Mountains National Park and its Missing Black Visitors: A Preliminary Analysis on the Hidden Architecture of Landscape

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Subaltern Perspectives of Geographic Thought on Protected Areas Tourism

Subaltern Perspectives of Geographic Thought on Protected Areas Tourism

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