Resisting Paradise

Resisting Paradise
Title Resisting Paradise PDF eBook
Author Angelique V. Nixon
Publisher Univ. Press of Mississippi
Pages 337
Release 2015-09-25
Genre History
ISBN 1626745994

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Winner of the Caribbean Studies Association's 2016 Barbara T. Christian Award for Best Book in the Humanities Tourists flock to the Caribbean for its beaches and spread more than just blankets and dollars. Indeed, tourism has overly affected the culture there. Resisting Paradise explores the import of both tourism and diaspora in shaping Caribbean identity. It examines Caribbean writers and others who confront the region's overdependence on the tourist industry and the many ways that tourism continues the legacy of colonialism. Angelique V. Nixon interrogates the relationship between culture and sex within the production of “paradise” and investigates the ways in which Caribbean writers, artists, and activists respond to and powerfully resist this production. Forms of resistance include critiquing exploitation, challenging dominant historical narratives, exposing tourism's influence on cultural and sexual identity in the Caribbean and its diaspora, and offering alternative models of tourism and travel. Resisting Paradise places emphasis on the Caribbean people and its diasporic subjects as travelers and as cultural workers contributing to alternate and defiant understandings of tourism in the region. Through a unique multidisciplinary approach to comparative literary analysis, interviews, and participant observation, Nixon analyzes the ways Caribbean cultural producers are taking control of representation. While focused mainly on the Anglophone Caribbean, the study covers a range of territories including Antigua, the Bahamas, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, as well as Trinidad and Tobago, to deliver a potent critique.

The Battle for Paradise

The Battle for Paradise
Title The Battle for Paradise PDF eBook
Author Naomi Klein
Publisher Haymarket Books
Pages 53
Release 2018-06-05
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1608464318

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Fearless necessary reporting . . . Klein exposes the ‘battle of utopias’ that is currently unfolding in storm-ravaged Puerto Rico” (Junot Díaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao) “We are in a fight for our lives. Hurricanes Irma and María unmasked the colonialism we face in Puerto Rico, and the inequality it fosters, creating a fierce humanitarian crisis. Now we must find a path forward to equality and sustainability, a path driven by communities, not investors. And this book explains, with careful and unbiased reporting, only the efforts of our community activists can answer the paramount question: What type of society do we want to become and who is Puerto Rico for?” —Carmen Yulín Cruz, Mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico In the rubble of Hurricane Maria, Puerto Ricans and ultrarich “Puertopians” are locked in a pitched struggle over how to remake the island. In this vital and startling investigation, bestselling author and activist Naomi Klein uncovers how the forces of shock politics and disaster capitalism seek to undermine the nation’s radical, resilient vision for a “just recovery.” All royalties from the sale of this book in English and Spanish go directly to JunteGente, a gathering of Puerto Rican organizations resisting disaster capitalism and advancing a fair and healthy recovery for their island. “Klein chronicles the extraordinary grassroots resistance by the Puerto Rican people against neoliberal privatization and Wall Street greed in the aftermath of the island’s financial meltdown, of hurricane devastation, and of Washington’s imposition of an outside control board over the most important U.S. colony.” —Juan González, cohost of Democracy Now! and author of Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America

Religion and the Marketplace in the United States

Religion and the Marketplace in the United States
Title Religion and the Marketplace in the United States PDF eBook
Author Jan Stievermann
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 321
Release 2015
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 0199361800

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This collection of essays focuses on the diverse interactions between religious and commercial practices in U.S. history. Studying religion and the marketplace from various angles, each chapter offers insights into a long and intimate relationship between two aspects of American culture.

Women and Tourist Work in Jamaica

Women and Tourist Work in Jamaica
Title Women and Tourist Work in Jamaica PDF eBook
Author Augusta Lynn Bolles
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Pages 171
Release 2022-01-31
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1793615578

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In Women and Tourist Work in Jamaica: Seven Miles of Sandy Beach, A. Lynne Bolles examines Jamaican women tourist workers and their workplaces in Negril, Jamaica. A major component of Negril’s tourism success is the labor of women tourist workers, ranging from housekeepers to hotel and business owners. Bolles’s ethnographic research examines key aspects of women’s labor in the tourist industry through the lenses of class, color, education, and training. Through the narratives of thirty interlocutors, Bolles focuses on the prescience of emotional labor and face-to-face encounters, investigating these women’s ideas about tourism on the local level and their wariness of the changing physical environment as a result of tourism expansion. For more information, check out A Conversation with A. Lynn Bolles: Women and Tourist Work in Jamaica.

The Oprah Affect

The Oprah Affect
Title The Oprah Affect PDF eBook
Author Cecilia Konchar Farr
Publisher SUNY Press
Pages 362
Release 2008-10-16
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9780791476161

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Essays explore the broad cultural impact of Oprah’s Book Club.

In Plenty and in Time of Need

In Plenty and in Time of Need
Title In Plenty and in Time of Need PDF eBook
Author Lia T. Bascomb
Publisher Rutgers University Press
Pages 307
Release 2019-12-13
Genre Music
ISBN 1978803966

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In Plenty and in Time of Need demonstrates how the unique history of Barbados has contributed to complex relations of national, gendered, and sexual identities, and how these identities are represented and interpreted on a global stage. As the most widespread manifestation of social commentary, the book uses music and performance to analyze the competing ideals and realities of the national culture. It details the histories of prominent musical artists, including the prolific Pan-Africanist calypsonian the Mighty Gabby, the world-renowned Merrymen, Soca Queen Alison Hinds, artist/activist Rupee, and international superstar Rihanna. Using these artists, the project analyzes how femininity, masculinity, and sexuality are put in service of Barbadian nationalism. By examining websites, blogs, and digital products of these artists in conversation with Barbadian tourism, the book re-examines the ways in which commodity, sexuality, gender performance, and diasporic consciousness undergird individual careers and national representations.

Be Strong and Courageous

Be Strong and Courageous
Title Be Strong and Courageous PDF eBook
Author David Yount
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Pages 262
Release 2000
Genre Family & Relationships
ISBN 9781580510769

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Be Strong and Courageous is the sequel to David Yount's Book-of-the-Month bestseller Growing in Faith. The popular syndicated columnist reassures believers and skeptics of all ages that having faith makes sense. He shows how faith dignifies humanity, giving fulfillment, and heals the world. As a parent writing letters to encourage and inspire his growing daughters, Yount shows how Christians can face life's challenges with faith, hope, love, and confidence. Be Strong and Courageous shows how we can pass on our rich tradition of faith in a way that is revitalizing to inspire a new generation.