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Eating Paradise: Food as Coloniality and Leisure
Sandals Resortsâ Gourmet Discovery Dining programme continues the companyâs practice of marketing difference by combining tourism with the commodification of food from non-Western cultures (Dodman and Rhiney 2008). The article draws on bell hooksâ (1992) concept of âeating the otherâ and the analysis undertakes an interdisciplinary approach that combines visual analysis with Anibal Quijanoâs (2007) concept of modernity/coloniality. The discussion explores the trends of global multiculturalism that have been adopted by Sandals in a hybridized cut and mix approach to selling a packaged ideal of the Caribbean. The visual techniques devised to create a culinary holiday package are overlaid onto a manufactured and homogenised or McDonaldized (Ritzer and Liska 1997) Caribbean that provides insight into the way in which global neoliberal multiculturalism is framed by ongoing colonial relations after formal colonial rule has ended in the Caribbean region