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August 7, 2026Antipode

Hospitality as Worldmaking: The Archive, Methods, and Genres of Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Hawai‘i

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VGVernadette Vicuña GonzalezUniversity of California, Berkeley

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Essay explores how touristic genres shape perceptions of place, suggesting new narratives can aid decolonization.

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  • This essay examines how touristic narratives affect perceptions of place within the context of decolonization in Hawai‘i.
  • Expanded and revised version of the 2024 Antipode Lecture at the American Association of Geographers conference.
  • Analyzes the edited collection Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Hawai‘i.
  • Explores the relationship between tourism, narrative, and necropolitical structures.
  • Highlights the transformative power of narrative in decolonizing discourses about space.
  • Suggests that new narratives can confront and counteract the erasures caused by tourism.
  • Emphasizes the emergence of hospitable worlds in the Pacific as articulated by Epeli Hau‘ofa.

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Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a758bae847ab6d26c01f1aahttps://doi.org/10.1111/anti.70189
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