... Miami toward becoming “wide open,” a status that allowed queers to carve out distinct spaces in the city, particularly during peak tourist season. Much like Miami's “exotic” connections to the Caribbean, queers made the tourist economy work, staffing the service industry and functioning as physical...

...Scott Laderman “Tourists in Uniform” examines the conjunction of tourism and American empire-building through the Pocket Guide series of guidebooks published by the US Department of Defense, one of the largest travel publishers of the Cold War era. The Pentagon used these publications to present...

...Rebecca J. Kinney This essay analyzes the ways that the “tourist gaze” and the “development gaze” overlap in the neoliberal gentrification of Detroit. It situates Shinola Detroit's corporate branding as an extension of the tourist gaze, a way for tourist consumers to experience the city through...

...Kim Cary Warren This review of four books published about tourism in the US South examines the ways the region has struggled to reconcile a past rooted in slavery and violence and a modern era recast as industrial, technological, and attractive for tourists. With a focus on ghost tours, beaches...

... to a discursive and material process it calls “homomilitarism,” wherein the same-sex erotics of gay marriage have emerged to confront and reproduce the dominant paradigm of heteronormativity in the militarist and tourist industries of the Pacific. While these systems appear unrelated, the article demonstrates how...

... they were considered the strongest barriers to citizenship. In spite of these restrictions, towns across the nation were simultaneously incorporating Indian performances and imagery into local and regional tourist endeavors, putting themselves at odds with Indian policy edicts. This article highlights...

...Mark Rice This article examines how the policies and institutions of the Good Neighbor era in the 1930s and 1940s promoted the Inca archaeological site of Machu Picchu as a tourist destination and a national symbol of Peru. The article investigates the transnational effort that linked US goals...

... for an international audience narratives whitewashing the occupation. It also surveys how Palestinians used tourism and tourist spaces, including the Nativity Church, as staging grounds for resistance to Israel's colonial rule through boycotts and acts of sabotage of Israeli-run tourism operations in the occupied zone...

... tourists are invited to have at the USS Arizona Memorial / Pearl Harbor complex. Foregrounding instead Native Hawaiian history and claims to the space, the experience and purpose of Detours collides with the unabashed patriotism that structures the memorial's investment in World War II commemoration...

..., and Heritage . Berkeley : University of California Press . MacCannell Dean . 1973 . “Staged Authenticity: Arrangements of Social Space in Tourist Settings.” American Journal of Sociology 79 , no. 3 : 589 – 603 . Raibmon Paige . 2005 . Authentic Indians: Episodes of Encounter from...

... mıyız?” Halkçı , August 5 . Edensor Tim . 2000 . “Staging Tourism: Tourists as Performers.” Annals of Tourism Research 27 , no. 2 : 322 – 44 . ———. 2001 . “Performing Tourism, Staging Tourism: (Re)producing Tourist Space and Practice.” Tourist Studies 1 , no. 1 : 59...

...Nan Alamilla Boyd Photo by Katy Raddatz, San Francisco Chronicle, 2004. Reprinted with permission INTERVENTIONS Sex and Tourism: The Economic Implications of the Gay Marriage Movement Nan Alamilla Boyd What new queer politics are emerging through tourism, and what tourist...

... . TOURIST TRAPS Falling off the Tourism Ladder Spanish Tourism from Franco to the Housing Bubble of 2008 Max Holleran The City of Arts and Sciences is a collection of architecturally daring cultural structures nestled into the bottom of a manicured riverbed park in the Spanish city...

... in the heart of Sydney, and who has trav- eled to Berlin occasionally. This is the position of a misplaced individual who stands both here and there, on the margins, a migrant and a tourist. The present essay con- siders these positions, the migrant and the tourist...

..." after 1904, following the example set by long-distance "reliability runs" sponsored by automobile clubs and manufacturers. These vacations by thousands of well-todo urban tourists were the first real contacts-outside some county fair exhibits and pictures in the Sears Roebuck catalog...

... the coun- try was governed from the city behind the hills.”36 This remark reflects a concern with the present, not the past. Toward a Tourist Heritage Site Given the monument’s loss of symbolic status, has it also ceased to play any part...

... supporters and deepen commitments of those already invested in its mission. Even as the museum brings the archives into interaction with many publics, however, contemporary forces in San Francisco threaten to render it complicit in a sanitized, tourist-­oriented Castro and gay history. How successfully...

... park and popular tourist destination, ”The Rock” served much longer as an incarceration site. During the Civil War era, Union forces imprisoned Confederate soldiers there. In the 1930s, when the federal government established United States Penitentiary (USP) Alcatraz, splashy media coverage...

... of the exotic that emerged out of the infor­ mal twentieth-­century American empire. As part of a critique of contemporary ide­ ologies of multiculturalism that cast food as benign emblems of the pleasures of multiethnic societies, he locates the persistent racism of the touristic consumption of food...

...) and the suburban peripheries (see figs. 1 and 2). Viewed materially, these are the centers of capital accumulation, where commerce, tourists, government agencies, and local residents intersect. Both CBDs are relatively linear in nature and loosely arranged around pedestrian malls geared toward consumption...