Event overview
NEW DATE Monday 11 December Mary Louise Pratt, "Is This Gitmo or Club Med?": Wastelands of Desire.
What will tourism become as climate catastrophe unfolds? Can ruination, rather than plenitude, be commodified as desirable experience? What new patterns of mobility will emerge ( like the cult of the extreme)? What new structures of desire ("See it before it's gone")? What new forms will the performance of privilege take in a world of damage and unpredictability? What other forms of human and non-human mobilities should be in our planetary picture today as we contemplate the fate of tourism?
Mary Louise Pratt is Professor Emerita at New York University. Her most recent book, Planetary Longings (2022) reflects on the crisis of futurity that accompanies the millennial turn in relation to environmental disaster and to the new forms of thinking it has catalyzed. Her book Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation (1992) as well as her notion of the “contact zone” have had an enormous influence in thinking about tourism and cultural encounters as a whole. A former President of the Modern Language Association, Pratt has received numerous honors, grants, and awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies. At Stanford, where she was the Olive H. Palmer Professor of Humanities she was recipient of the Bing Fellowship for Distinguished Teaching and (twice) of the Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Part of the Visual Cultures Autumn term Public Programme, "The Last Resort. On Terminal Tourism"convened by Yaiza Hernández Velázquez
Photo, "Dunas de Corralejo", courtesy of Teresa Arozena, Instagram @teresaarozena
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 11 Dec 2023 | 5:15pm - 7:15pm |
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