Eco-tourist refuges erase the segregated histories that created them
Evidence
Like the Caribbean paradise, the game reserve is shaped as a sanctuary from labor and from history’s brutality; here history’s corrugations have been Botoxed from nature’s visage. In the temporal enclaves of the island refuge ringed by ocean and in the game reserve ringed by electrified fences, the tourist is guaranteed full immersion in the eco-archaic, which is not to be confused with the historical. To enter this refuge is to enter a charmed space that is segregated, among other things, from the history of its own segregation. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 523
Categorization
- DEFINE: Defines ‘eco-archaic’ — the marketed timeless/prehuman nature shrine distinguished sharply from actually historical space.
- XREF: connects to: Tourist eco-enclaves can operate as racial and temporal islands frozen outside social change — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 503; Civil rights tourism erases the after times from the movement’s story — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America…, 539; Colonial historiography reproduced administrative maps that erased mixed-ethnic encampments (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Civil rights tourism erases the after times from the movement’s story
#corroborates(0.92) — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again, 539 - Colonial historiography reproduced administrative maps that erased mixed-ethnic encampments
#corroborates(0.87) - Pastoral synecdoche can erase colonial and industrial space from national identity
#corroborates(0.85) — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 1347 - Colonial maps erased native presence by designating inhabited lands empty
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