Description: How Caribbean artists and activists counteract the apparently irresistible lure of the tourist dollar
Brief description: Angelique V. Nixon is a lecturer at the Institute for Gender and Development Studies, the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. She is author of Saltwater Healing--A Myth Memoir and Poems and coeditor of Theorizing Homophobias in the Caribbean: Complexities of Place, Desire and Belonging.
Review Quotes: Whether rooted resident, mobile diaspora, or open-eyed tourist, we all have something to learn from Resisting Paradise, Angelique Nixon's empirically elegant and fiercely honest inquiry into the discursive, sexual, and material effects of tropical paradise. She teaches us how Caribbean cultural producers have created alternative ways of resisting and rerouting the damaging cultural, ecological and spiritual effects of tourism.--Mimi Sheller, author of Consuming the Caribbean: From Arawaks to Zombies; Tourism Mobilities: Places to Play, Places in Play; Citizenship from Below: Erotic Agency and Caribbean Freedom; and Aluminum Dreams: The Making of Light Modernity