The Detours Symposium Series featuring Detours-Puerto Rico

Sponsors: Mellon Multivocal Humanities Funds for Ethnic Studies, Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies Program, The Anticolonial Lab, Center for Race and Gender, Chicanx/Latinx Studies Program, Department of Ethnic Studies, Department of Sociology, Latinx Research Center, University of Victoria Indigenous Governance Program

Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Puerto Rico is not a guidebook designed to facilitate travel. Instead, this edited volume interrupts the depoliticized narratives that sanitize Puerto Rico’s colonial condition in order to satisfy tourist appetites and sustain a visitor-centered economy. Rejecting the logics of consumption that frame the archipelago as an escape, Detours-Puerto Rico insists on confronting the political, historical, and material realities that tourism works to obscure. Bringing together creative works, essays, and illustrations by activists, journalists, artists, community organizers, and scholars, Detours-Puerto Rico foregrounds voices actively engaged in resisting the uneven geographies produced by the militouristic economy. At the same time, the volume gestures toward decolonial and more just futures, imagining possibilities beyond the narrow horizons offered by tourism and toward forms of relation rooted in solidarity, accountability, and collective care.

Admission Information:
If you require accommodation for a disability in order to fully participate in this event, please contact the event organizer with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days in advance of the event.

Contact Info:
Vernadette Gonzalez vernadette@berkeley.edu

Access Coordinator:
Vernadette Gonzalez, vernadette@berkeley.edu

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