The HBS hosts discuss the ugly underside of tourism.
Tourism is a superficial activity that has deep historical and political underpinnings. Jamaica Kincaid in A Small Place argues the power relation within tourism, where the tourist lives a life that allows them to visit the land of the (Fanonian) native. Tourism suggests privilege and power and a shaping of the world that makes a person a tourist. What other types of tourism are there? What are the other implications of being a tourist? What are the economic, political and even ethical ramifications of walking through the history and culture of others.
In this episode, we discuss the following texts, thinkers, issues, and themes:
- Kincaid, Jamaica. A Small Place.
- Black, Stephanie, dir. Life and Debt.
- King Short Shirt. “Tourist Leggo,” Ghetto Vibes.
- Fanon, Frantz. Wretched of the Earth.
- Colonial Williamsburg Protest
- Jacqueline Smith (National Civil Rights Museum protester)
- Cape Coast Castle, Cape Coast Ghana, West Africa
- Eco-tourism
- Dark Tourism
