Consuming Cultures: Travel, Tourism, and Display

Focuses on cultural production, consumption, and encounter through various modes of travel and display. Topics include tourism and its antecedents and variants; the contributions of both mobile and emplaced modes of cultural display to nationalism and modernity; colonialist legacies in experiences of mobility and representation; cultural production as a strategy for place-making and economic redevelopment; nature as a culturally-constructed attraction; the blurred line between ethnographic and touristic ways of knowing about human cultures; and the role of the digital in producing and consuming cultural display. Assignments provide opportunities for students to produce critical commentary in a variety of media based on small-scale field research.