Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14791420.2023.2174563
Sofia Rastelli, Apoorva Nanjangud
ABSTRACT When the hybrid business of volunteer tourism (volunteer service coupled with leisure touristic activities) meets the self-referential language of Instagram, travel photography intertwines with the identity construction process. Accordingly, this article examines the visual and textual narratives used to build voluntourists’ identities in their posts from their experiences abroad. Authors highlight the recurrence of a political/apolitical spectrum across which users perform the identities of hero, adventurer, and advocate volunteers. We argue that each identity corresponds to a different approach to the interaction with the local “other.”
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14791420.2022.2164024
C. King
ABSTRACT In the 2010s, multiple media outlets declared Nashville an “It City.” No longer simply the home of country music, Nashville became a popular tourist destination with particular appeal to white women bachelorettes. Nashville’s bachelorette party culture encourages women to “celebrify” themselves by supporting scopic economies through public amenities and social media sharing—while simultaneously reinforcing white, Eurocentric, cisheterosexual beauty norms refracted through fantasies about Southern womanhood. This tourist industry, which has dramatically altered Nashville’s public image, relies on and reaffirms centuries-old fantasies about white women that are designed to be detrimental, if not dangerous, to Black lives.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14791420.2023.2169313
T. Dionne, J. Hatfield, Nabiha Khetani, Joel Metcalf
ABSTRACT In summer 2020 at the University of Arkansas, a Black-led protest movement known as #BlackatUARK challenged the presence of a statue to William J. Fulbright due to his racist voting record. Despite the Arkansas state legislature quickly passing a law that made the removal of the memorial illegal, contributors to #BlackatUARK demonstrated how to forget Fulbright by recontextualizing his memory as continuous with a broader history of anti-Blackness on campus. We argue that efforts to forget Fulbright are skillful techniques of anti-racist communication that can be understood as (1) deep ecological worldmaking, (2) wake work, and (3) dissonant history generation.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14791420.2023.2169818
Louis M. Maraj
ABSTRACT How do quotidian speech-acts, lived experiences, and normative grammars/logics capture affects of antiBlack racism that co-constitute campus memory and landscapes beyond infrastructure and spectacular commemoration of exceptional past events/historical figures? How does Black resistance to white supremacist university structures (un)fold with/in them? This experimental essay considers power dynamics inherent in complaint about antiBlackness at an historically white U.S. campus amid 2020’s racialized pandemic violence. Through narrative-driven inter(con)textual reading, it toys with the politics of subject(ivity), t(h)inking through how names function rhetorically to reify what Hortense Spillers conjures as “American grammar,” while wrestling (in-and-of itself) with onto-linguistic violence in re/membering trauma.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14791420.2022.2164318
Nicole T. Allen
ABSTRACT This article examines the diverging translations of an unnamed protester photographed several times throughout the early days of the 2011 Egyptian uprisings. Using iconographic tracking, the paper argues that self-seductive translation is an important concept for critical cultural studies. Self-seductive translation targets neocolonial audiences with an identification chain that obscures the asymmetry of the neocolonial relationship. In the case of the unnamed protester, self-seductive translation encouraged US English speakers to identify themselves as equals with the imaged protester, where the now-equal relationship is delivered by tools and technology of the West.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14791420.2023.2171078
Stephen Monroe
ABSTRACT Delay and doublespeak have long been effective ways to communicate discouragement to those seeking change within white supremacist systems. Indeed, white Southerners in power have deployed these strategies of resistance at every turn during the decades since the Civil War. This has certainly been true in education. My essay explores examples of these rhetorical strategies still at work to undermine racial progress at predominantly white institutions (PWIs) in the U.S. South.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14791420.2023.2169484
J. Ohl
ABSTRACT Increased controversy over the truth and meaning of the past has fueled an economic surge in public memory spurring competition between universities and cities for material and symbolic resources. Relations between “town and gown” are often fraught with distrust and sabotage as university administrators and government officials carve out their own memory territories for profit. As rhetorical scholars, educators, and practitioners critically engage our places of employment, careful consideration must be paid to how memory boundaries are drawn, and who stands to gain from the monopolization of culturally relevant narratives of racial struggle.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14791420.2023.2169725
Alyson Farzad-Phillips
ABSTRACT As universities grapple with their long-standing and ever-present relationships with white supremacy, how do they choose to physically mark racial memories on campus, especially those related to racial violence? At the University of Maryland, competing messages from two different memorials for a slain Black student demonstrate the need to critique the form and content of university memorialization. In this essay, I focus on the ideas of disruption, movement, and tension to argue that specific physical elements of the two memory sites communicate diverging recommendations for how a university should take responsibility for racial injustice.
随着大学努力解决与白人至上主义长期存在的关系，他们如何选择在校园中标记种族记忆，特别是与种族暴力有关的记忆?在马里兰大学(University of Maryland)，一名被杀黑人学生的两个不同纪念馆发出的相互竞争的信息表明，有必要对大学纪念活动的形式和内容进行批判。在这篇文章中，我将重点关注破坏、运动和紧张的概念，以论证这两个记忆地点的特定物理元素传达了关于大学应该如何承担种族不公正责任的不同建议。
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14791420.2023.2169483
Michael Lechuga, K. Hoyt, Shane L Burrell
ABSTRACT In this essay, we describe how activist and creative impulses led to the establishment of the Multi-User Virtual Environment (MUVE Lab) at the University of New Mexico. The mission of the lab is rooted in a Pluriversal vision of environmental pedagogy, pulling from Indigenous ways of knowing to inform a creative practice that challenges the mechanisms of purposeful forgetting at the center of the modern public university. We offer critique of today’s “land grab” university that inspired our campus activism, specifically the ways the MUVE Lab seeks to rebuild and reconnect to the lands on which our academic institutions stand.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-06DOI: 10.1080/14791420.2022.2136393
Bryan J. McCann
ABSTRACT This article draws on the author’s experiences with alcoholism and mental illness to critique narratives of merit and success in the research university. Theorizing what the author calls economies of misery, the article describes anxiety, depression, and substance abuse as manifestations of the affective surplus that remains after one has achieved what the research university characterizes as success. The article ends with a call to reclaim this surplus and strategize responses to the research university’s cultures of cruelty. Content warning: Descriptions of addiction, mental illness, self-harm, and suicidal ideation.
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