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TY - JOUR
T1 - Identity, spatiality and postcolonial resistance
T2 - geographies of the tourism critique in Goa
AU - Saldanha, Arun
PY - 2002
Y1 - 2002
N2 - This article maps some of the ways that the critique of tourism development in the Indian state of Goa is connected to Goan patriotism. Reactions against tourism in Goa assume a prior definition of ‘Goa’, and this definition is often patriotic. One of the central processes to understanding contemporary Goa’s identity politics in the face of tourism is its former colonisation by the Portuguese. Treating the tourism critique in Goa as a geographically and historically specific discourse in this article means discussing four aspects of what will be called its spatiality: geopolitics, geohistories/disembeddings, socio-spatial biases and situatedness. It will be argued that the spatiality of the tourism critique shows that its connection to patriotism is not straightforward and immediate, but contingent. It will also be argued that although the spatiality of the tourism critique points to its heterogeneity, it is precisely because there are multiple constructions of ‘Goa’ and ‘Goan identity’ that the discourse constitutes its object, Goa.
AB - This article maps some of the ways that the critique of tourism development in the Indian state of Goa is connected to Goan patriotism. Reactions against tourism in Goa assume a prior definition of ‘Goa’, and this definition is often patriotic. One of the central processes to understanding contemporary Goa’s identity politics in the face of tourism is its former colonisation by the Portuguese. Treating the tourism critique in Goa as a geographically and historically specific discourse in this article means discussing four aspects of what will be called its spatiality: geopolitics, geohistories/disembeddings, socio-spatial biases and situatedness. It will be argued that the spatiality of the tourism critique shows that its connection to patriotism is not straightforward and immediate, but contingent. It will also be argued that although the spatiality of the tourism critique points to its heterogeneity, it is precisely because there are multiple constructions of ‘Goa’ and ‘Goan identity’ that the discourse constitutes its object, Goa.
KW - tourism critique
KW - Goa
KW - postcolonialism
KW - cultural imperialism
KW - Foucault
KW - patriotism
U2 - 10.1080/13683500208667910
DO - 10.1080/13683500208667910
M3 - Journal article
VL - 5
SP - 94
EP - 111
JO - Current Issues in Tourism
JF - Current Issues in Tourism
SN - 1747-7603
IS - 2
ER -