...Jemima Pierre This article engages the scholarly discussion of the booming heritage tourism industry in Ghana to explore the dynamics and politics of historical and contemporary African-diasporic interactions and provoke a critical revision of diaspora theory. I argue that Ghanaian-diaspora...

... the cultural logic that connects reconciliatory peacemaking to global capitalism. © 2015 Duke University Press 2015 DMZ reconciliation tourism digital art Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries Duty-­Free in the DMZ? Young-­hae Chang Heavy Industries, the Heyri Art Valley, and Peace Tourism...

... new media across lines of race, nation, gender, etc.); disability studies’ notions of access as intimately tied to political power and infrastructure; and postcolonial studies’ criticisms of colonial access in tourism and resource extraction of the global South. The article brings together...

... onto the globe at the close of the nineteenth century. A range of mobili- ties, transformed or generated by industrialization (i.e., class privilege, whiteness, transportation technology, mass media, tourism) and eventually...

... guest edited a special issue of GLQ titled “Queer Tourism: Geographies of Globalization” (8:1–2, 2002). Her writing on lesbian tourism is forthcoming in Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography. Amit S. Rai teaches cultural and literary studies at the New School Uni- versity in New York City. He...

...- sense of how tity tourism in MUDs and MOOs have offered counterpoints to the often hidden racial ideologies of the information era.7 In a study of late-1990s multiplicity works ads for computer companies, Nakamura explored how the promise...

.... Jemima Pierre’s “Beyond Heritage Tourism: Race and the Politics of African-Diasporic Interactions” approaches this question through a provocative ethnography of diasporic return to Africa. Her consideration of such return and exchange between...

... connecting Body Lava's shine to recreational island hoping, an activity that makes the Caribbean an attractive tourist destination, but also one—in tandem with tourism more broadly—that has a large carbon footprint, we are further reminded of Mimi Sheller's argument about mobility as a driver of climate...

... Brown 11 Left Out: Afro-Latinos, Black Baseball, and the Revision of Baseball’s Racial History  •  Adrian Burgos Jr. 37 Beyond Heritage Tourism: Race and the Politics of African-Diasporic Interactions  •  Jemima Pierre 59 Family Matters: Diaspora, Difference, and the Visual Archive...

... on a street in Old Havana. The street, Calle O’Reilly, had not yet been — ­but would soon be — ­gentrified in Cuba’s attempt to make tourism central to the economy. In 1996, the crumbling, colorless colonial-­era buildings had not yet been refurbished and repainted. Residents — ­mostly...

... version of this, which is Carl Schmitt’s “friend or foe,” of course, but which is not fixed but shifts and changes according to the national and international context. And then there is tourism. Tourism was always a matter of going back to the past. When it began in the nineteenth century, you wanted...

... in the emergence of the Harlem-Havana nexus: the emergence of tourism in Cuba. The disruption of transatlantic transit brought about by World War I, as well as the onset of Prohibition, made Cuba an increasingly popular destination for U.S. Americans. “So near and yet so foreign,” as one tourist...

... to neoliberalism suggested to us an exhilarating alternative ideal for life in academe, even as it embedded us in the ironies of intellectual tourism. Since 1995, both of us had secured academic jobs, with Voekel return- ing...

... at Rutgers University. She works on queer globalizations, South Asian diasporas, gay and lesbian tourism, and sexual scripts of terrorism. Her articles have appeared in GLQ, Signs, Society and Space, Feminist Review, Radical History Review, Antipode, and Gender, Place...

... in the tourism opportunities afforded by New York, a committed group of scholars ventured to the heart of American capitalism to talk about the inequities of American capitalism. Typically, Stanley Aronowitz had the star billing on the program. His performances were always mesmerizing, combining high theory...

... is on the periphery of daily concerns in Ghana. However, others argue that the aesthetics and politics of black-­white racial difference remain central to many aspects of public life:43 widespread skin bleaching; male and female European sex tourism; the growing presence of white study-­abroad students...

... the section of the 760-­kilometer wall that cuts through Bethlehem, a West Bank town close to Jerusalem. As occupied towns go, Bethlehem has historically been one of the world’s most hospitable spaces. The city is enriched and even sustained by tourism, which...

... this eroticizing, subjugating visual archive to the current imaginary of the era of globalized exploitation, migrant labor, and sex tourism. The last two contributions to this issue explore Said’s own experiments in visual culture and autobiography. Taking as her point of departure After the Last Sky...

... time, it was a celebration of what we may call “sex tourism,” in which the Latin boys are the dark objects of desire, as we will see below. They published a groundbreaking piece—Alfredo Villanueva Collado’s early survey of gay male Latin...

... to hotels, otherwise close to vacant due to the slump in the tourism industry. Currently, controversy rages over the Environmen- tal Protection Agency’s monitoring of what they call “the plume,” partic- ularly regarding the agency’s mid...