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Detours : travel and the ethics of research in the global south

Title
Detours : travel and the ethics of research in the global south / edited by M. Bianet Castellanos.
Publication
Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, [2019]

Details

Additional Authors
Castellanos, María Bianet
Description
ix, 186 pages; 23 cm
Summary
"A collection of articles and essays, critical analyses and personal reflections of travel and tourism by a diverse group of scholars and journalists. The authors consider the ethics and racial politics of traveling and doing research abroad and the privilege allowing them to enter peoples' lives, ask intimate questions, and publish their disclosures, effectively putting them on display"--
Subject
  • Anthropological ethics
  • Anthropology > Methodology
  • Tourism > Moral and ethical aspects > Latin America
  • Tourism > Moral and ethical aspects > Caribbean Area
  • Travel > Moral and ethical aspects > Latin America
  • Travel > Moral and ethical aspects > Caribbean Area
  • Imperialism and science
  • Caribbean Area
  • Latin America
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction / M. Bianet Castellanos -- Part I. Encounters. 1. Privileges of the First World: Reflections on Another Life in Brazil / Misha Klein -- 2. The Ethnographic Traveler: Immersions, Encounters and Imaginings / Juan Antonio Flores Martos -- 3. "La Quebrada," A Foreign Journalist Takes the Plunge / Barbara Kastelein -- Part II. Returns. 4. Chronicle of a Return to Cuba in a Time of Cholera / Ruth Behar -- 5. Postcards from Cancun / M. Bianet Castellanos -- 6. Selling Affect, Seeking Blood: The Economy of Pain at El Mozote, El Salvador / Ellen Moodie and Leigh Binford -- 7. Strangely, Touristically Familiar: Rio for a Carioca's Eyes / Fernando de Sousa Rocha -- Part III. Departures. 8. Circles Of Power Children Of Resistance, Or My Rules of Engagement / Gina Athena Ulysse.
ISBN
  • 9780816539987
  • 0816539987
  • 9780816540242
  • 0816540241
LCCN
2019008297
OCLC
YBP 2019008297
Title
Detours : travel and the ethics of research in the global south / edited by M. Bianet Castellanos.
Publisher
Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, [2019]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Castellanos, María Bianet, editor.
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