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The End of Tourism The End of Tourism
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4.6 • 9 Ratings
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Welcome to the End of Tourism, a podcast about wanderlust, exile, and radical hospitality. For some, tourism can entail learning, freedom, and financial survival. For others, it means the loss of culture, land, and lineage. Our conversations explore the unauthorized histories and consequences of modern travel. They are dispatches from the resistance. Hosted by Chris Christou.
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S3 #7 | On Travel Writing and Colonial Spells | Bani Amor
My guest on this episode is Bani Amor, a genderqueer travel writer who explores the relationships between race, place, and power. They’re a four-time Voices of Our Nation Arts Foundation fellow with work in CNN Travel, Fodor’s, and AFAR, among others, and in the anthology Outside the XY: Queer Black and
Brown Masculinity.
In our discussion we look to travel writing as a narrative that underpins colonialism and the identity crisis that it desperately needs. We consider contemporary social media travelogues, the limits to decoloniality and tourism greenwashing, spiritual or psychedelic tourism, what subversive travel writing looks like and what travel writing looks like at home.
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Bani's Instagram Page
Workshop: Travel Writing and Social Justice: Dismantling the Inner Colonizer with Bani Amor (via Zoom)
The Heart of Whiteness: On Spiritual Tourism and the Colonization of Ayahuasca
Bani's Bitch Media Writing
Bani's Official Website (Coming Soon)
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S3 #6 | The Hypermobile Medium is the Message | Andrew McLuhan (The McLuhan Institute)
My guest on this episode is Andrew McLuhan, an author and educator living in Bloomfield, Ontario. He writes and delivers speeches, classes, workshops on McLuhan methods and work, consults with individuals and companies on understanding McLuhan work in culture and technology and applying that work today to bring insight and new perception and understanding.
Andrew McLuhan is a grandson of Marshall McLuhan, noted Canadian professor from the University of Toronto who was a pioneer in the field of Media/Communications studies. Andrew is director of The McLuhan Institute, founded in 2017 to continue the work begun by Marshall McLuhan and carried on by Eric McLuhan in exploring and understanding culture and technology. The McLuhan Institute preserves their family archive and collections, and focuses on bringing forward and making accessible the practical tools for exploring and understanding the nature and effects of human innovation so that we might be more conscious agents of change.
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Substack: The McLuhan Newsletter
The McLuhan Institute Website - Twitter
Gray Area Understanding Media Intensive (New class starting in Sept 2023)
Poetry: Written Matter (Revelore Press)
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#0.5 | Responsibility, Repair and Radical Hospitality | Chris Christou
In this mini-episode, I offer up a little introduction into these extremely important themes, ones so often neglected in our time: responsibility, repair and radical hospitality. As locals and foreigners alike, depending on where we are at any given moment, the questions posed in the episode arise as necessary in order to understand where we actually are at any given moment, how we are in those places and with the people that surround us. These themes are the foundation for why the podcast was created in the first place. If given their proper place on the throne of our days, we might begin to dream the world anew, slowly coaxing it into reality. That is my hope. That is the work.
Hosted by Chris Christou
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S3 #5 | Hacking the Housing Crisis | Murray Cox (Inside Airbnb)
My guest on this episode is Murray Cox, a multidisciplinary Australian-American artist and activist based in Newburgh NY, who uses visual, audio, spatial and data storytelling to explore themes of economic and racial equity and to fight for housing justice and the right to our cities.
He is also the data activist founder of Inside Airbnb, a mission driven project which provides free data on Airbnb’s impact on residential communities, and advocates for regulations that protect our neighbourhoods.
Murray and I gathered to discuss his project Inside Airbnb, how it began, where Airbnb fits in the housing crisis, how Airbnb intentionally misleads the public, as well as racial discrimination evident on Airbnb's model. We talk about the various reports that Inside Airbnb has released over the years, digital nomadism, housing for all, the host-guest relationship, and the need to organize the neighbourhood.
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Inside Airbnb Official Website - Facebook - Twitter
Resist Airbnb Official Website - Facebook
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S3 #4 | The Old Country, the Dead and Justice | Stephen Jenkinson (Orphan Wisdom)
On this episode, I'm honoured to host and welcome back to the pod, my dear friend, Stephen Jenkinson, MTS, MSW. Stephen is a worker, author, storyteller, musician and culture activist. In 2010, he founded Orphan Wisdom, a house for learning skills of deep living and making human culture that are mandatory in endangered, endangering times. It is a redemptive project that comes from where he comes from. It is rooted in knowing history, being claimed by ancestry, working for a time he won’t live to see. When not on the road, he makes books, succumbs to interviews, tends to labours on a small farm, mends broken handles and fences, and bends towards lifeways dictated by the seasons of the boreal borderlands.
We discuss winter(ing) and going without, the ominous Old Country, being more European than the Europeans, what it means to love a place, the Axes of the world and the local numinous, the towering order of staying home. In the second half I propose a different route than we usually take, towards the living and the dead and time, towards justice and freedom. I have to say, Stephen was incredibly generous with his time and we're blessed to hear from him. Enjoy!
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Reckoning Book by Stephen Jenkinson and Kimberly Anne Johnson
Stephen's Books: https://orphanwisdom.com/books/
Nights of Grief and Mystery: https://orphanwisdom.com/nights-of-grief-and-mystery/
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S3 #3 | Indigenous Travellers in the Heart of Empire | Cecilia Morgan
On this episode, I speak to Cecilia Morgan, a professor in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at the University of Toronto. Her work focuses on nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century Canada as part of the British Empire and transnational worlds. She has been researching the history of English-Canadians’ and Indigenous peoples’ travel, tourism, and transnational mobility for over twenty-five years, and is particularly interested in the way that gender and empire have been part of those processes. Her publications in these areas include Sweet Canadian Girls Abroad: English-Canadian Actresses on Transnational Stages, Travellers Through Empire: Indigenous Voyages From Early Canada, and ‘A Happy Holiday’: English-Canadians and Transatlantic Tourism.
Professor Morgan lives in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, a destination for cultural and wine tourism. As well as witnessing the many changes the town has undergone since the early 1980s with the expansion of tourism, she has written about its history in her book, Creating Colonial Pasts: History, Memory, and Commemoration in Southern Ontario.
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Cecilia Morgan's UofT Page
Travellers through Empire: Indigenous Voyages from Early Canada
Sweet Canadian Girls Abroad: A Transnational History of Stage and Screen Actresses
Cecilia Morgan's Google Scholar Page
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Customer Reviews
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Thank you for your interview with Stephen Jenkinson. As an interviewer you’re able to bring out a deeper aspect of Mr. Jenkinson and I deeply appreciate that you let him go on and on. Well done!
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Migration > Immigration > Tourism
This was an interesting interview Chris. Dr Ivan Murray Mas raises many good points. Time constraints of course limit a deeper dive. That said a good indication of a successful interview is that the listener is left with a good many questions!
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