{"title":"Music films and videos as recolonizing media in tourism","authors":"Rich Harrill , Leonardo (Don) A.N. Dioko , Omid Oshriyeh","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.104010","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>There is growing awareness within social science that colonization is neither permanent nor complete, with the forces of colonization, decolonization, and recolonization spatially and temporally overlapping. Selective recolonization is evidenced in cultural appropriations and colonial nostalgia as described by diasporic authors such as V.S. Naipaul. However, examples of oppositional gaze are also evident in music films and videos ranging from Billie Holliday's “Strange Fruit” to Childish Gambino's “This Is America.” Artificial intelligence, streaming technologies, and destination images offer a potent synthesis that can undermine decolonization. We assert that the critical pragmatism of Habermas and Dewey can be used to identify and evaluate manifestations of selective recolonization, the oppositional gaze they engender, and how both infuse contemporary travel and tourism discourses.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"114 ","pages":"Article 104010"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8000,"publicationDate":"2025-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Annals of Tourism Research","FirstCategoryId":"91","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160738325001161","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
There is growing awareness within social science that colonization is neither permanent nor complete, with the forces of colonization, decolonization, and recolonization spatially and temporally overlapping. Selective recolonization is evidenced in cultural appropriations and colonial nostalgia as described by diasporic authors such as V.S. Naipaul. However, examples of oppositional gaze are also evident in music films and videos ranging from Billie Holliday's “Strange Fruit” to Childish Gambino's “This Is America.” Artificial intelligence, streaming technologies, and destination images offer a potent synthesis that can undermine decolonization. We assert that the critical pragmatism of Habermas and Dewey can be used to identify and evaluate manifestations of selective recolonization, the oppositional gaze they engender, and how both infuse contemporary travel and tourism discourses.
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The Annals of Tourism Research is a scholarly journal that focuses on academic perspectives related to tourism. The journal defines tourism as a global economic activity that involves travel behavior, management and marketing activities of service industries catering to consumer demand, the effects of tourism on communities, and policy and governance at local, national, and international levels. While the journal aims to strike a balance between theory and application, its primary focus is on developing theoretical constructs that bridge the gap between business and the social and behavioral sciences. The disciplinary areas covered in the journal include, but are not limited to, service industries management, marketing science, consumer marketing, decision-making and behavior, business ethics, economics and forecasting, environment, geography and development, education and knowledge development, political science and administration, consumer-focused psychology, and anthropology and sociology.