Detours Travel and the Ethics of Research in the Global South / [edited by] M. Bianet Castellanos.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Castellanos, María Bianet, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Imperialism and science.

Travel--Moral and ethical aspects--Caribbean Area.

Travel.

Travel--Moral and ethical aspects--Latin America.

Tourism--Moral and ethical aspects--Caribbean Area.

Tourism.

Tourism--Moral and ethical aspects--Latin America.

Anthropology--Methodology.

Anthropology.

Anthropological ethics.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (201 pages)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019

Summary:

Touring. Seeing. Knowing. Travel often evokes strong reactions and engagements. But what of the ethics and politics of this experience? Through critical, personal reflections, the essays in Detours grapple with the legacies of cultural imperialism that shape travel, research, and writing. Influenced by the works of anthropologists Ruth Behar and Renato Rosaldo, the scholars and journalists in this volume consider how first encounters--those initial, awkward attempts to learn about a culture and a people--evolved into enduring and critical engagements. Contemplating the ethics and racial politics of traveling and doing research abroad, they call attention to the power and privilege that permit researchers to enter people's lives, ask intimate questions, and publish those disclosures. Focusing on Latin America and the Caribbean, they ask, Why this place? What keeps us coming back? And what role do we play in producing narratives of inequality, uneven development, and global spectacle? The book examines the "politics of return"--the experiences made possible by revisiting a field site over extended periods of time--of scholars and journalists who have spent decades working in and writing about Latin America and the Caribbean. Contributors aren't telling a story of enlightenment and goodwill; they focus instead on the slippages and conundrums that marked them and raised questions of their own intentions and intellectual commitments. Speaking from the intersection of race, class, and gender, the contributors explore the hubris and nostalgia that motivate returning again and again to a particular place. Through personal stories, they examine their changing ideas of Latin America and the Caribbean and how those places have shaped the people they've become, as writers, as teachers, and as activists.

Contents:

Introduction / M. Bianet Castellanos

part I. Encounters. Privileges of the first world: reflections on another life in Brazil / Misha Klein

The ethnographic traveler: immersions, encounters and imaginings / Juan Antonio Flores Martos

"La quebrada," a foreign journalist takes the plunge / Barbara Kastelein

part II. Returns. Chronicle of a return to Cuba in a time of cholera / Ruth Behar

Postcards from Cancun / M. Bianet Castellanos

Selling affect, seeking blood: the economy of pain at El Mozote, El Salvador / Ellen Moodie and Leigh Binford

Strangely, touristically familiar: Rio for a carioca's eyes / Fernando de Sousa Rocha

part III. Departures. Circles of power children of resistance, or my rules of engagement / Gina Athena Ulysse.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8165-4058-6

OCLC:

1121144921