Postcolonial Tourism

Carrigan, Anthony

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“…The islands' packaging and marketing as paradisiacal destinations, the perceived endangering of their cultures and natural environments, and the explicit visibility of tourism's effects in these contexts have turned them into recent objects of critical scrutiny. For a detailed analysis of the relationship between tourism and postcolonial theories, see Carrigan (2011) and Hall and Tucker (2004). 2.…”

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‘The tropics make it difficult to mope’: The imaginative geography of Alexander Payne’s The Descendants (2011)

Carazo

2015

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<p>This paper analyses the cinematic landscape of The Descendants (Payne, 2011) by engaging with Edward Said’s concept of “imaginative geographies” (Orientalism, 1978), a theoretical approach that addresses the interaction between the material and the symbolic in spatial representation. I also draw from Henri Lefebvre (The Production of Space, 1974) to explain how Alexander Payne renders space and subjectivity as mutually constitutive. The Descendants’ powerful analogies between family ties and land ties would illustrate this spatial-subjective system in interesting metaphoric parallels. In a similar vein, Lefebvre’s emphasis on the importance of capitalism in the social construction of spaces helps articulate the film’s discussion of Hawaiian land trade politics and the protagonists’ ambivalent relation to it. This reading of the film can be inserted into the context of contemporary revisitations of the Paradise mythology as inextricably bound to postcolonial questions of ecology, nation and globalization.</p>

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‘The tropics make it difficult to mope’: The imaginative geography of Alexander Payne’s The Descendants (2011)

Carazo

2015

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“…The subversive rhetoric of postcolonial writing provides a useful frame for understanding Kincaid's counter narrative and reconstruction of Antigua's local history and culture. Moreover, the paper draws on emergent conceptualizations of enclave tourism as charted by Edensor (2000Edensor ( , 2001 and Carrigan (2010aCarrigan ( , 2010b.…”

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“…Only recently, postcolonial criticism has opened up to intervene emergent discourses on the tourism industry in the particular socio-historical contexts of postcolonial islands. Carrigan (2010b) has sketched ways to understand postcolonial tourism through literary engagements with discourses of environmental appropriation and cultural consumption.…”

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“Monument to Rottenness”: Postcolonial Enclave Tourism in Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place

Aljahdali¹

2020

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Postcolonial criticism has recently recovered tourism from the margins of postcolonial studies. This paper aims to contribute to the postcolonial discourse on island tourism by exploring Jamaica Kincaid's A Small Place (1988) as a discursive subversion of a tourism industry centered on the exclusion of local agency and history. Framed in postcolonial theory, the study focuses on enclave tourism as an unsustainable economy based on tourist/host division. It draws on Edensor's (2000, 2001) and Carrigan's (2010a, 2010b) conceptualizations of enclave tourism. Kincaid's representation of postcolonial Antigua reveals the complicity of colonial legacy with unsustainable tourism development. Sites of ruins and decline become tourist attractions and monuments to rottenness, signifying the dispossession of the local Antiguans and the erasure of their culture. The study reveals how tourist enclaves, as represented in Kincaid's travel narrative, do not only produce a divided and contrived space but also limit the tourist experience of the real Antigua.

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“…Even though the close collaboration between scientists and the organisers of the people shows had ended before the twentieth century began, human zoos remained a popular attraction for some more decades. Researchers stress the fact that the emerging film and tourism industry replaced the classic people shows without putting an end to the racial regime of representation (see Schwarz 2001;Wolter 2004, 158-195;Carrigan 2011;Dreesbach 2012, 30). Novel and highly successful forms of ethnic shows like 'Afrika!…”

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The return of the native: racialised space, colonial debris and the human zoo

Purtschert

2014

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This article takes Zurich's Masoala Halle as an example to show how the spatial redistribution of whiteness, as Sara Ahmed calls it, is tied to a specific use of science and the scientific through two interconnected arguments. First, the difference between the scientific human and the 'native informant' is taken up. As Gayatri Spivak's account of the native informant indicates, the displaying of whiteness relies on the racialised Other who stands in for the premodern ways of life as well as the basic and primitive aspects of human existence. Second, the current return of representations of the native Other to zoo exhibitions, as exemplified by the Zurich Zoo, needs to be seen within the trajectory of the human zoos of the late nineteenth century that were crucial for the popular establishment of a racialised gaze, which drew heavily on the emerging scientific approach to the world and vice versa.

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Postcolonial Tourism

Cited by 67 publications

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‘The tropics make it difficult to mope’: The imaginative geography of Alexander Payne’s The Descendants (2011)

‘The tropics make it difficult to mope’: The imaginative geography of Alexander Payne’s The Descendants (2011)

“Monument to Rottenness”: Postcolonial Enclave Tourism in Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place

The return of the native: racialised space, colonial debris and the human zoo

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