Beyond the Dark Side of the Port of the Moon: Rethinking the Role of Bordeaux’s Slave Trade Past

Bordeaux is increasingly recognized as a “slave-trading port” (port négrier) that was built upon the wealth of merchants who shipped enslaved people and the fruits of enslaved labour. This article focuses on the enslaved and free women, men, and children whose multidirectional travel has also shaped the city since the eighteenth century. During the height of the eighteenth-century trade, some people of colour had the opportunity to redefine themselves in the city. After the slave trade ended and an era of colonialism in Africa began, others who gathered in the city had new opportunities to imagine a “Black metropolis.” Pushing beyond current, crucial efforts to recognize the role of the slave trade and slavery in France, this article theorizes ways to reconstruct the lives of people of colour and their historical communities in key European port cities like Bordeaux.La ville de Bordeaux est de plus en plus reconnue comme un port négrier dont la richesse des marchands reposait sur le trafic et le travail des esclavagisés. Le présent article est axé sur les femmes, les hommes et les enfants esclavagisés ou libres dont les pérégrinations diverses ont également façonné la ville depuis le XVIIIe siècle. Au plus fort du commerce du XVIIIe siècle, certaines personnes de couleur ont eu l’occasion de se redéfinir dans la ville. Une fois la traite négrière terminée, une ère de colonialisme commence en Afrique, durant laquelle d’autres personnes réunies dans la ville ont pu imaginer une « métropole noire ». Allant au- delà des efforts essentiels actuels visant à reconnaître le rôle de la traite négrière et de l’esclavage en France, cet article théorise sur les moyens de reconstruire la vie des personnes de couleur et de leurs milieux dans d’importantes villes portuaires européennes comme Bordeaux

An Evaluation of Tourism Communities and Community Responses to Tourism and Crime: A Case Study of two Cornish Destinations

Full version unavailable due to 3rd party copyright restrictions.The growth of mass tourism has placed great pressure on British seaside destinations, and has contributed to the social costs experienced by the resident population via symptoms of changing perceptions, attitudes and behaviour towards tourism, and the presence of higher crime rates. This thesis examines the social reality experienced by residents, and determines the impacts of tourism-related crime upon two tourist communities which are experiencing high levels of crime. The comparative study of a British seaside resort and a coastal town reveals that tourism communities are influenced by individual resident opinions. Simultaneously these communities influence resident perception and behaviour towards tourism-related crime, and it is through this exchange process, that evidence of destination specific criteria has emerged. The research established that the resort community found commonality through the mutual gaze, whilst the coastal community formed closed perceptions of deviant activities through discord and the local gaze. The study concludes by arguing that a destination offering a hedonistic lifestyle will not necessarily have higher crime rates than other safer destinations. This is due to the widespread implementation of crime prevention methods in the resort, and the lack of deterrents established in the coastal town. Therefore there may be nothing criminogenic about these particular destinations. Instead, collective community perception, digressed through crime talk, has influenced community crime interpretation and individual resident evaluation of the tourism industry.Plymouth Business School Scholarshi

Migration, Settlement, and Memories Among Africans and Their Descendants in the Ibero-Atlantic

Dr. Judith A. Carney and Dr. Lorelle Semley make up this panel. As individuals and groups migrate from one geographical area and settle in another, they make connections between the spaces they leave and the spaces to which they travel. . In these movements, they engage in processes of transculturation, selectively shedding some beliefs and practices, taking on new ones, and contributing the beliefs and practices that they bring to their new place and society. . These processes of change occur within unequal relationships of power. . This panel will examine the movement of Africans and their descendants around the Ibero-Atlantic world, with a particular focus on the processes of transculturation, or the diffusion and infusion of symbolic memories, political ideologies and everyday practices into American spaces, noting the particularities of experience defined by race, caste, gender, and calidad.https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/greenleaf_symposia/1000/thumbnail.jp

Film tourism: the pre-production perspective. A case study of Visit Somerset and the Hollywood story of Glastonbury

Film tourism has been researched now for many years and the consequences of post-production are clear. However, there has been little opportunity to explore the perceptions of filming, pre-production, until now. Using a case study approach to the making of one particular Hollywood film on a rural location, the paper focuses on evaluating the business of film tourism and establishing the perceived impacts of film tourism from advanced practitioners and local residents, respectively. Two stages of data collection were adopted during pre-production: elite interviews and focus groups. The findings reveal that the role of each practitioner shapes their level of understanding and knowledge about the myths of Glastonbury, and their evaluation of the debate surrounding creative accuracy versus commercial creativity. Concern over the costs of film-induced travel were also noted, and echoed by residents. However, for residents, uncertainty, a lack of detailed knowledge, and scepticism about the film’s content proved more significant, rather than pre-existing issues faced by the town and expressed by the practitioners. Therefore, it is suggested that practitioners should forge partnerships through tourism collaboration but at the same time they need to manage local residents to ensure they respond to their concerns surrounding corporate takeovers and the commercialisation of their culture, rather than just issues of congestion and transportation

To be Free and French : Citizenship in France\u27s Atlantic Empire

The Haitian Revolution may have galvanized subjects of French empire in the Americas and Africa struggling to define freedom and \u27Frenchness\u27 for themselves, but Lorelle Semley reveals that this event was just one moment in a longer struggle of women and men of colour for rights under the French colonial regime. Through political activism ranging from armed struggle to literary expression, these colonial subjects challenged and exploited promises in French republican rhetoric that should have contradicted the continued use of slavery in the Americas and the introduction of exploitative labour in the colonisation of Africa --Provided by publisher.https://crossworks.holycross.edu/hc_books/1024/thumbnail.jp

Taking action doesn't have to be hard: From deciding to doing.

Being reflective, and having the time and space to process ‘what happened’, can be quite overwhelming and can often lead to inaction. For that reason, this talk will summarise the days hot topics, and provide you with an overview of action you can take back to your business, so that you can take some action for good and address the conferences key themes of authenticity, sustainability and inclusivity within your own organisation

The assessment of feedback: A learning development process

The aim of the project is to explore student perceptions of the feedback process within the School of Tourism and Hospitality (SoTH) at Plymouth University. The purpose is to be responsive to the requirements of students, as individuals, and understand their needs. But at the same time, the project aims to enhance academic practice, as ‘how students experience and make sense of learning activities and academic practices’ (Hilsdon 2010:2) will be better understood, and can be better prepared for. Therefore, the nexus between feedback and Learning Development is explored. The rationale for this project was borne from the proposition that feedback is a major focus of student concern in Britain (Hounsell 2007) and that it has become a topical issue ‘given the publicised findings of the National Student Survey’ (Bailey 2009:1). The process of providing feedback is ‘bread and butter to teaching and learning’ (Boud 2000:155). However, literature infers that good feedback can get lost in translation between the teacher and student (Rodgers 2006). Therefore, as a lecturer, directed by the QAA general principles (Rust 2002) to provide appropriate feedback (principle 12), it is crucial to develop an understanding about student practice. Once understood, the knowledge can then enrich learning materials, and ensure that feedback is communicated in the most effective way for students to digest.TFA

Reimagining Education: Where are you on your journey?

As we develop our sustainability mindset, we look for inspiration and direction from leaders. As a business leader, we transform our learning into our organisation, and we do this to develop our team and to motivate them to work well for the good of the business (and the planet). However, to enable this transformation to happen we need to pay attention to ourselves in the first instance. We need to become aware of our needs for personal growth, development, and accomplishment. Together we can then reimagine education, consider our scope for personal development, and share our success stories – to lead our businesses towards the future

War Horse or not? A study of the Dartmoor visitor

Rural tourism still defies definition. Due to the nature of rurality, and the process of tourist imagination, rural locations are viewed and consumed through multiple social representations. When a rural location has been well represented through fiction for many years, it is then questioned if the type of visitor to the site alters when a Hollywood movie is filmed on location, as the celluloid portrayal is believed to reach a wider audience (Busby & Klug 2001). Consequently, when the representations of a location diversify, it is questioned if these representations influence the tourist imagination and decision-making process. Through a case study of Dartmoor National Park, an onsite quantitative survey was undertaken to explore the type of visitor found on Dartmoor after the release of the 2012 blockbuster film, War Horse. The findings revealed that visitor motivations to Dartmoor have changed over the past 20 years, the socio-demographic characteristics of the visitor has shifted, and that the film representation of the moor had been consumed by the majority of respondents, more so than the fictional novel. However, due to the low response rates associated with this investigation, it is questioned if these shifts are a consequence of film representations of the moor, or fashion