Detours: Travel and the Ethics of Research in the Global South by Castellanos, M. Bianet

Detours: Travel and the Ethics of Research in the Global South

Touring. Seeing. Knowing. Travel often evokes strong reactions and engagements. But what of the ethics and politics...
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Detours: Travel and the Ethics of Research in the Global South by Castellanos, M. Bianet

Detours: Travel and the Ethics of Research in the Global South

$107.40

Detours: Travel and the Ethics of Research in the Global South

$107.40
Author: M. Bianet Castellanos
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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.

Author: M. Bianet Castellanos
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 11/05/2019
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780816539987

About the Author
M. Bianet Castellanos is an associate professor of American studies at the University of Minnesota. She works with Maya communities in Cancún and Los Angeles. She is the author of A Return to Servitude: Maya Migration and the Tourist Trade in Cancún and co-editor of Comparative Indigeneities of the Américas: Toward a Hemispheric Approach.


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