Rosemary Wiss
Biographic Data
| ID | 6673159 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rosemary Wiss |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rosemary |
| FAMILY NAME | Wiss |
| SIGNATURE | WISS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | French Corrosion Institute |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-0451-7644 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Tryst Troppo
The village of Aplaya, Puerto Galera, on the Philippines island of Mindoro is renowned for its beach and scuba diving. Despite its reputation as an isolated tropical island paradise, Aplaya is also infamous for sex tourism––a legacy of a colonial and military history. Following imperial rule by the Spanish, the US colonized the Philippines and established military bases which expanded during the Vietnam War along with the rest and recreation (R &…
Tropicality and Decoloniality
The small beachside town of Aplaya, Puerto Galera, on the island of Mindoro in the Philippines has a sex, beach, and diving tourist economy. Aplaya is considered a place of isolation, providing unspoiled tropical nature. Many foreign men discuss their desires for a Utopian paradise, a tropical beach that is imagined as uninhabited except for the necessary extras – the welcoming natives and compliant women. Foreign men depict the Philippines as a …
And justice for all? International anti-trafficking agendas and local consequences in a Philippines sex tourism town
Lipreading
This paper moves towards a retracing of an imagined ‘metanarrative’ on race and gender in emergent sciences of human difference. It is a specific bid to locate a series of ideas on transcendent notions of objectivity in one of their sites of practice and gestures to contemporary practices of defining difference. In 1810 Saartjie Baartman, a !Kung woman from South Africa, was taken to England for public display as the ‘Hottentot Venus’. Amidst con…
Tropicality and Decoloniality
The small beachside town of Aplaya, Puerto Galera, on the island of Mindoro in the Philippines has a sex, beach, and diving tourist economy. Aplaya is considered a place of isolation, providing unspoiled tropical nature. Many foreign men discuss their desires for a Utopian paradise, a tropical beach that is imagined as uninhabited except for the necessary extras – the welcoming natives and compliant women. Foreign men depict the Philippines as a …
And justice for all? International anti-trafficking agendas and local consequences in a Philippines sex tourism town
Lipreading
This paper moves towards a retracing of an imagined ‘metanarrative’ on race and gender in emergent sciences of human difference. It is a specific bid to locate a series of ideas on transcendent notions of objectivity in one of their sites of practice and gestures to contemporary practices of defining difference. In 1810 Saartjie Baartman, a !Kung woman from South Africa, was taken to England for public display as the ‘Hottentot Venus’. Amidst con…
And justice for all? International anti-trafficking agendas and local consequences in a Philippines sex tourism town
Tropicality and Decoloniality
The small beachside town of Aplaya, Puerto Galera, on the island of Mindoro in the Philippines has a sex, beach, and diving tourist economy. Aplaya is considered a place of isolation, providing unspoiled tropical nature. Many foreign men discuss their desires for a Utopian paradise, a tropical beach that is imagined as uninhabited except for the necessary extras – the welcoming natives and compliant women. Foreign men depict the Philippines as a …
Tryst Troppo
The village of Aplaya, Puerto Galera, on the Philippines island of Mindoro is renowned for its beach and scuba diving. Despite its reputation as an isolated tropical island paradise, Aplaya is also infamous for sex tourism––a legacy of a colonial and military history. Following imperial rule by the Spanish, the US colonized the Philippines and established military bases which expanded during the Vietnam War along with the rest and recreation (R &…
Philippine History and Culture (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sex work and related issues (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Tourism (3 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Paradise (2 works)