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Detours: Travel and the Ethics of Research in the Global South
Contributor(s): Castellanos, M. Bianet (Editor)
ISBN: 0816539987     ISBN-13: 9780816539987
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
OUR PRICE:   $28.45  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: November 2019
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social
- Political Science | World - Caribbean & Latin American
- Travel | Essays & Travelogues
Dewey: 174.930
LCCN: 2019008297
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.70 lbs) 200 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Latin America
 
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Publisher Description:
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.