scholarly journals “Monument to Rottenness”: Postcolonial Enclave Tourism in Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samar H. Aljahdali
Keyword(s):  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Travel Narrative ◽  
Tourist Attractions ◽  
Local Agency ◽  
Colonial Legacy ◽  
Postcolonial Criticism ◽  
Postcolonial Discourse

Postcolonial criticism has recently recovered tourism from the margins of postcolonial studies. This paper aims to contribute to the postcolonial discourse on island tourism by exploring Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place (1988) as a discursive subversion of a tourism industry centered on the exclusion of local agency and history. Framed in postcolonial theory, the study focuses on enclave tourism as an unsustainable economy based on tourist/host division. It draws on Edensor’s (2000, 2001) and Carrigan’s (2010a, 2010b) conceptualizations of enclave tourism. Kincaid’s representation of postcolonial Antigua reveals the complicity of colonial legacy with unsustainable tourism development. Sites of ruins and decline become tourist attractions and monuments to rottenness, signifying the dispossession of the local Antiguans and the erasure of their culture. The study reveals how tourist enclaves, as represented in Kincaid’s travel narrative, do not only produce a divided and contrived space but also limit the tourist experience of the real Antigua.

Potensi Pariwisata Dan Strategi Pengembangan Desa Wisata Sukajadi di Kabupaten Bogor

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-26
Author(s):  
Dina Mayasari Soeswoyo
Keyword(s):  
Development Strategy ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Swot Analysis ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Community Support ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Matrix Analysis ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Tourist Attractions

This study identifies the potential of tourism products in Sukajadi Village Bogor Regency based on ten (10) tourism components as well as its development strategy, which is currently included in the category of a newly developing tourist village. The results of this research are aggressive and serious development strategies in all aspects of the tourism component, namely increasing the quality and diversification of tourist attractions and activities, accessibility, improving the quality and quantity of tourism amenities, improving the quality of human resources & institutions, community support, land use, tourism industry cooperation, as well as marketing aspects. This research type is a descriptive qualitative with a case study exploratory approach. Primary data is obtained from direct observation and interviews with key informants, namely Pokdarwis and the Village Head, while secondary data is the result of literature studies and research documentation. The analysis technique of this research uses SWOT analysis and Matrix, analysis of the work program of the vision for tourism development of the Bogor Regency Government which refers to local government master plan for tourism development (RIPPARDA), and also analysis of the Cleanlines, Health, Safety and Environmental Sustainability (CHSE) guidelines.

The Postcolonial Contemporary

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
East Asia ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Black Atlantic ◽  
Indigenous Studies ◽  
Postwar Period ◽  
Postcolonial Criticism ◽  
Do So

This volume invokes the “postcolonial contemporary” in order to recognize and reflect upon the emphatically postcolonial character of the contemporary conjuncture, as well as to inquire into whether postcolonial criticism can adequately grasp it. Neither simply for nor against postcolonialism, the volume seeks to cut across this false alternative, and to think with postcolonial theory about political contemporaneity. Many of the most influential frameworks of postcolonial theory were developed during the 1970s and 1990s, during what we may now recognize as the twilight of the postwar period. If forms of capitalist imperialism are entering into new configurations of neoliberal privatization, wars-without-end, xenophobic nationalism and unsustainable extraction, what aspects of postcolonial inquiry must be reworked or revised in order to grasp our political present? In twelve essays that draw from a number of disciplines—history, anthropology, literature, geography, indigenous studies— and regional locations (the Black Atlantic, South Africa, South Asia, East Asia, Australia, Argentina) The Postcolonial Contemporary seeks to move beyond the habitual oppositions that have often characterized the field, such as universal vs. particular; Marxism vs. postcolonialism; and politics vs. culture. These essays signal an attempt to reckon with new and persisting postcolonial predicaments and do so under four inter-related analytics: Postcolonial Temporality; Deprovincializing the Global South; Beyond Marxism versus Postcolonial Studies; and Postcolonial Spatiality and New Political Imaginaries.

Psychoanalytical Theory in Postcolonial Discourse

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 123-140
Author(s):  
Audrius Beinorius ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Psychological Theory ◽  
Frantz Fanon ◽  
Colonial Discourse ◽  
The Future ◽  
Postcolonial Discourse ◽  
Theoretical Project

This article deals with some earlier applications of psychology for the analysis of the colonial condition offered by three thinkers—Octave Mannoni, Frantz Fanon and recent applications of Freudian psychoanalytical theory in the poststructuralist approach of Homi K. Bhaba. An attempt is made to compare their standpoints and reflect more broadly on what their implications mean for the future of psychoanalysis’ place in postcolonial critique. Also to answer a vital question in the theoretical project of postcolonial studies: Is psychoanalysis a universally applicable theory for psychic disruption in the colonial context? What are differences in the application of psychological theory for studies of colonial discourse? The conclusion of the paper is: Despite the problematic inheritance of racializing thinking psychoanalysis has proved to be an important and reoccurring methodology in colonial critique and postcolonial theory. Nevertheless, it is necessary to recognize that psychoanalysis itself is a colonial discipline and must become an object of colonial discourse analysis.

scholarly journals Meta-Understanding of Environmental Perception in Tourism: Implications for China’s Tourist Attractions

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 1658 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jinlian Shi ◽  
Jing Sun
Keyword(s):  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Environmental Perception ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Environmental Perceptions ◽  
Tourist Attractions ◽  
Attraction Rating ◽  
Global Force ◽  
Policy Suggestions ◽  
Administrative Units

Tourism is a global force in economic growth. To provide policy suggestions for advancing the tourism industry, we adopt a primary indicator, environmental perception, to examine tourism development. We conduct a nationwide meta-analysis to collect the environmental perceptions of residents and tourists in China, i.e., the satisfaction of an attraction’s environment. We analyze the collected information about the environmental perceptions, score the information, either negative (0) or positive (1), and sort these scores according to four socioeconomic classes (administrative units, attraction rating, ticket price, and attraction type). Our results show that residents’ and tourists’ degrees of satisfaction with environmental perception vary significantly among different classes and that unsatisfactory environmental perception indicates potential problems in the environment, products, and services provided by tourist attractions. Accordingly, we propose suggestions to address unsatisfactory environmental perceptions in each class, aiming to improve the degrees of satisfaction with environmental perception and to promote sustainability in tourism development.

scholarly journals Images of the East in the Short Fiction of Ivan Bunin

2020 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kata Juracsek
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Fiction ◽  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Semantic Structure ◽  
Social Setting ◽  
Postcolonial Criticism ◽  
The One ◽  
Second World

The article examines the images of the East in the short fiction of Ivan Bunin. With the help of the narrative model of Jan van der Eng, consisting of three basic thematic levels (action, characterization, geographical and social setting) we read and arrange the works of Bunin through the prism of postcolonial criticism. On the one hand, we will consider the arguments of traditional postcolonial studies; on the other hand, we will also take into account the postcolonial theory regarding the “second world” (Russia, Eastern and Central Europe).We start our analysis with the texts in which images of the East are only featured on one thematic level, gradually directing our attention towards the short stories in which these images determine the whole semantic structure.

scholarly journals INNOVATION-DRIVEN OPPORTUNITIES AND SOLUTIONS TO PROMOTE EUROPE-ORIENTED TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN UKRAINE

2021 ◽  
pp. 31-40
Author(s):  
Oleksandra V. Olshanska ◽  
Mykola O. Khmelevskyi ◽  
Daryna V. Hryhorchuk
Keyword(s):  
Customer Service ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
Tourist Attractions ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Innovative Solutions ◽  
Domestic Tourism ◽  
The Government

The article presents an in-depth analysis of innovation opportunities and solutions to promote Europe-oriented tourism development in Ukraine, which is especially relevant given the significant lag in economic indicators of Ukraine's tourism industry against the world tourism leaders. The findings reveal that the tourism industry, as well as in Ukraine, is adapting fast enough to the global challenges caused by the coronavirus pandemic and other crisis phenomena and is gradually returning to its normal functioning, even under heavy restrictions. Particular emphasis is put on the growing role of innovative solutions to boost the process of adaptation to new realia. It is argued that tourism innovations and reforms will contribute to promoting both short-term and long-term tourism demand, raise the number of tourism businesses and, consequently, will create more jobs in this sector, along with enhancing the quality and competitiveness of domestic tourism product and increasing the tourism industry share in GDP. The purpose of this article is to identify opportunities to innovate and search for optimal solutions to ensure Europe-oriented vector of tourism development in Ukraine. To attain the research agenda, a range of general research methods have been employed, in particular, analysis and synthesis, monograph methodology, as well as methods of abstraction and concretization. The study asserts that in modern economic settings to secure the European vector in tourism development, there is a vast variety of innovative solutions available to tour operators and travel agents, ranging from radical changes in their management and marketing activities up to diversification of tourism products and customer service models. To facilitate further Europe-oriented development of domestic tourism, a focus is also placed towards the essential role of innovation-driven transformations of a tourist product at the regional level which assume new services, new tourist attractions and travel routes or their modifications, including the use of digital technologies and new tourism types, such as glamping, immersive tourism, fitness tourism, virtual tourism, travel journalism, film tourism, etc. In addition, the study discusses the specifics of backpacking as one of modern innovative tourism trends. It is argued that the key pathway for the tourism industry to innovate is building a single national tourist information base with an easy access and customer-friendly interface. Such an electronic database will combine the capabilities of an interactive travel guide and a marketplace. According to the results of the study, to enhance the Europe-oriented development of the tourism industry in Ukraine, the government should design sound investment and innovation policies that will help to support both nation-wide and regional innovative projects. The summary concludes that the implementation of innovations will contribute to gaining a competitive edge in the global tourism market.

Geological Tourism Development In The Finnish-Russian Borderland: The Case Of The Cross-Border Geological Route “Mining Road”

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jari K. Nenonen ◽  
Svetlana V. Stepanova
Keyword(s):  
Tourism Development ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Design And Development ◽  
Tourist Attractions ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Road Development ◽  
The Cross

Abstract The Finnish-Russian borderland has a unique geological potential for geological tourism development. Creating new tourist attractions based on geoheritage, design and development of the cross-border tourist routes open new opportunities for tourism development on both sides of the border. The article presents the crossborder geological tourist route “Mining Road” as a tool of activation of tourist activity in the Finnish-Russian borderland. This article explores the practical aspects of the project "Mining Road" development for tourism industry. It is proven the significance of cross-border route "Mining road" for preservation, popularization and reproduction of the natural, cultural and historical potential of the borderland.

scholarly journals Pengembangan Pariwisata di Kampung Naga, Tasikmalaya, Jawa Barat

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 103
Author(s):  
Shifa Paramitha ◽  
Gde Indra Bhaskara
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Cultural Tourism ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Tourist Attractions ◽  
Second Stage ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
The Government ◽  
Depth Interviews

Culture has an important role in the tourism industry as one of the factors that attract tourists to visit tourist attractions. One of the cultural tourism areas in West Java is Kampung Naga in Tasikmalaya Regency. Tourism has begun in this traditional village since the 1970s, but its development can be said to be slow because many tourism principles are considered not following customary rules. Unique even though tourism development is not recognized by the community, but continues to run and also benefits the community. This study uses a qualitative method that aims to identify the development of tourism in Kampung Naga. The types of data used are quantitative data and qualitative data with data collection carried out by observation, in-depth interviews, and documentaries. The data analysis used is qualitative descriptive analysis with an inductive approach. The results of this study show that the development of tourism in Kampung Naga has reached the second stage in the theory of the tourism area life cycle. Besides, there are community organizations that in charge of tourism issues in Kampung Naga, namely the Association of Indonesian Guides. Meanwhile, there are two Regional Organizations that have authority in Kampung Naga, which are the Tourism, Youth and Sports Departement and the Education Departement. The obstacle in developing tourism in Kampung Naga is a conflict between the government and local communities regarding regulations that are not obeying the customary rules in Kampung Naga. Keyword: tourism development, cultural tourism, traditional village, development obstacle, tourism area life cycle

scholarly journals TERRITORIAL CONSOLIDATION IN UKRAINE

2021 ◽  
Vol 137 (3) ◽  
pp. 81-91
Author(s):  
MIRKO Nataliia ◽  
LADONKO Liudmyla
Keyword(s):  
Development Strategy ◽  
State Policy ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Comparison Analysis ◽  
Tourist Attractions ◽  
Special Place ◽  
Regional Development Strategy ◽  
Marketing Approach

Background. The tourism industry has a special place in the management of the development of united territorial communities (UTC). In recent years, communities have demonstrated that tourism is one of the key areas in the regional development strategy. Theaim of the article is to identify and substantiate the development of tourism in the UTC of Zhytomyr region as one of the priority areas of the regional economy. Materials and methods. Methods of comparison, analysis and collection of informa­tion were used in the research. Results. Tourism stimulates the main sectors of Ukraine’s economy and is the inte­gral part of the development of international cooperation and integration of the country in the world economy. This requires a balanced state policy of integrated tourism deve­lopment. However, there are no common approaches to managing this sector at the state and regional levels. That is why an important component of effective tourism development is the development of a new state policy for tourism development based on a marketing approach in management. Conclusion. Specialized, recreational and tourist complexes of regions occupy a special place in the management of tourism development at the regional level. It is necessary to take a number of measures for the successful development of domestic tourism in UTC, including Zhytomyr region, such as conduct an inventory of tourist attractions, monuments, infrastructure; establish a public-private partnership; create community impro­vement plans; join forces with neighboring UTCs to create tourism products; present tou­rist offers to tour operators, agencies, other partners and establish partnerships with them.

scholarly journals LITERACY AND ORALITY: BETWEEN ABROGATION AND APPROPRIATION IN NGUGI WA THIONG’O’S THE RIVER BETWEEN

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bawa Kammampoal
Keyword(s):  
Oral Tradition ◽  
English Language ◽  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Modes Of Representation ◽  
African Worldview ◽  
Postcolonial Discourse ◽  
Canonical Texts

Colonizers have used language as an instrument of socio-political and economic control during colonisation. This has enabled them in the process to establish power hierarchy based mostly on linguistic superiority by undermining native tongues. In recent years, theories of postcolonial discourses hold the view that colonialism has fundamentally affected modes of representation of colonised spaces. Through questioning and travestying western hegemonic discourses, writers from once colonised spaces have challenged and subverted the hegemonic power of the colonial language by inserting different strategies into their own language to suit socio-cultural contexts. For postcolonial literary artists, this consists in taking the language of the former imperial power, to unlearn its worldview and re-place it in a discourse fully adapted to ones’ own space and subsequently, produce new modes of representation in countering colonial canonical texts. In this sense, postcolonial discourse is crystallised by and replete with ‘abrogation’ and ‘appropriation’ in the canon of postcolonial studies. This suggests the writer’s use of linguistic structure of the borrowed language, the manipulation of its syntactical structure as well as its semantics, to convey stance against the colonizer. In its pronouncement, an effort is made to advocate for a critical rethinking of the legacies of colonial domination as well as its accompanying epistemologies. Kenyan novelist Ngugi wa Thiong’o uses elements of oral tradition (orality) or better indigenous poetics in his fictional works, mostly The River Between, to express the meanings, feelings and experiences of his Gikuyu people. Thus, orality as a means of communication and carrier of the culture of those people to whom it is a mother tongue, has social, cultural, and political aesthetic roles to play in the African worldview. To achieve this, Ngugi employs historically significant events, moments and stylistic features which are characteristics of oral tradition to emphasise important key concepts that help to reconstruct positive moral values in conflict with foreign ones in a fragmented Kenyan society. Though many controversies surround Ngugi’s writing and its medium of reception, this paper contends that his fictions written in his mother tongue or in English and/or translated into English, are part and parcel of his endeavour to appropriate the literary enterprise not only as a weapon of active physical revolt and textual indignation but also as against (post)colonial pathologies. Ngugi refashions the colonial English language to show that his country, Kenya, is not a mere passive entity in tolerating colonial legacies; but challenges western hegemonic power dimensions, dismantles them to the point of bringing them under its own terms and conditions. The conceptual frameworks that underpin the study are New historicism (New Culturalism) and postcolonial theory. <p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0728/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

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