Susan Frohlick
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 76948 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Susan Frohlick |
| NOMBRES | Susan |
| APELLIDO | Frohlick |
| FIRMA | FROHLICK S |
| AFILIACIONES | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4511-826X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 161 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2003 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Mirrors, labour, and contested ground
Tourism narratives in art, ethnography and (social) media
Tourism thinkers and sightseeing as modernity
"In a city "Quiet Like a Ghost
This flash ethnography reflects back on my first interview carried out at the start of a new ethnographic project. I recount the power of sound as an entry point into a refugee's experience as a newcomer in the urban Canadian prairies, as an Ethiopian woman's story about the ways that she heard the city revealed the ghostly quiet that bore down on her
Spaces, places, and tourismscapes
Ebbs and flows of precarity and hope
Performativities, pandemic pressures and ‘patchwork’ tourism places
Emerging from the shadows of the Covid-19 pandemic and building back better
Four papers on tourism in Asia constitute this issue.Thus, the first issue of 2023 offers our readers a platform to reflect upon Asian critical tourism scholarship and the journal's support of this growing area within tourist studies. A call for Asian tourism scholarship in post-COVID-19 or still-viral timesPrior to the COVID-19 pandemic, tourism economies in Asia were booming in ways unimagined previously.References to 'The Asian Century', a ter…
Tourism mobilities, tourist performances
Listening otherwise
This paper explores quests for silence in tourism in English-language online media. We offer a reading of media forms all articulating a soundscape of silence: a preferred sonic environment for tourists’ health and well-being. A relational and reflexive approach allows us to interrogate these taken-for-granted desired silences, and to emplace ourselves in the analysis. Using critical discourse analysis, we try to listen to the sounds produced in …
Loss, Commemoration, and Listening… For Yoko
In this exploratory piece, I draw from sound studies and the anthropology of sound to find my way in to a long overdue commemoration of a participant-interlocutor and friend who died in 2018. In thinking back on the significance of sound and listening in our evolving relationship, I work through my grief and loss. I offer two “listening stories” as a means to both honour Yoko and to reflect upon my own “listening habits, privilege and biases” (Ro…
Gender, Holidays, and Tourism
Histories, cultures, practices, and embodied experiences of tourism and holiday making are thoroughly gendered, and anthropologists have been at the forefront of documenting and analyzing the intersections of gender, tourism, and holidays. Questions of difference are central to anthropological accounts of the possibilities and limitations of desire, pleasure, and mobility that stem from the naturalization of gender differences. The initial concep…
Messy Free-For-All Or An “Aha!” Moment
This paper traces a collaboration between a White settler anthropologist and Black community liaison and researcher in the design and implementation of HIV awareness strategies. Based on ethnographic research with young people from African newcomer communities who settled in Winnipeg, Canada, their sense that HIV did not exist in Canada was the impetus for our movement of knowledge-to-action. Rather than deliver the facts to them as a passive aud…
Reproductive mobilities
This special issue brings reproduction into a critical mobilities framework. We extend scholarship in cross-border reproductive care and medical mobilities into new theoretical and empirical directions. Reproductive mobilities articulates the mutual constitution of reproduction and mobilities. Human (and nonhuman) movement not only shapes reproduction but produces reproductive imaginaries, desires, futures, trajectories, as well as the subjectivi…
Canada's forced birth travel
The mandatory travel for birth experienced by Indigenous women living in rural and remote areas of Canada is examined using an emergent lens of Indigenous reproductive mobilities. Current evacuation practices are contextualized within the historic and ongoing systems of oppression experienced by Indigenous people in Canada. Indigenous feminist and decolonial theoretical approaches are used to outline one way in which Indigenous women counter sett…
Reproductive vibes
Drawing on a conceptual framework of therapeutic atmospheres, I explore the question of how a tourist destination reverberated with reproductive potentiality or a ‘reproductive vibe.’ I draw on ethnographic fieldwork attentive to the ‘charged atmosphere of everyday life’, to consider how reproductive possibilities unfolded in the Costa Rican Caribbean for some tourist women. Moving away from the autonomous, liberal, mobile subject as only ever a …
You Never Know What Will Happen
In a small town in the Caribbean region of Costa Rica, affective tourism economies shape the ways that the future is imagined and played out for racialized local youth. We tell a story of one interlocutor, Fred, a sanguine young man with a troubled childhood, to explore how intensities and emotions in his encounters with a wealthy tourist during his late teen years generated possibilities. Events unfolded to become eventfulness that made the futu…
Participant-Led Photographs and Repositioningel Mujeriegoor "the Hustler" in Costa Rica's Caribbean Littoral
By using participant-led photography, we examine the complexity in which Black and mixed-race masculinities are imagined and negotiated vis-à-vis interactions and intimate relations with foreign women, in the context of global tourism and transnational intimacies in the South Caribbean littoral of Costa Rica. Photographs were used to reposition local young men, who are often racialized in the tourist imagery, as “takers” of images of their daily …
Re-Assembling "Risky" Subjects
Drawing upon ethnographic research in Winnipeg, Manitoba, we complicate simplistic epidemiological and sexual health discourses that position African newcomer teen girls and young women as "at-risk" for HIV/AIDS and other consequences of being sexually active. By tracing the trajectories of sexual health messages and utilizing the concept of assemblage, we seek to account for the ways in which risk is actively made and negotiated in practice by A…
Mostly with White Girls
In Winnipeg, a midsize city in the Canadian Prairies undergoing social and demographical transformations, male African newcomer youth face challenges in their settlement experiences relating to conflicting and heterogeneous norms around sexuality, sex, and dating. With its diverse population, the city is a space in which both racialization of blackness occurs and "multicultural" ethno-racial diversity is imagined. In this spatiality of youths' ev…
Feeling sexual transgression
Participating in sexual tourism and cross-border sex, heterosexual Euro-North American women are a targeted social group whereby accusations, such as ‘fucking gringa’, label them as sexual transgressors for violating multiple boundaries of heteronormativity. The complex power dynamics of women's cross-border sex are due to negotiations of race, gender, and class that are played out in specific locales and political economies of desire. Within the…
Introduction
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Intimate Tourism Markets
This article focuses on heterosexual North American and European tourist women in a transnational town in Atlantic Costa Rica renown for its intimate "vibe" and independent eco-oriented tourist development, where they grappled with the unexpected monetary aspects of intimate relations with Caribbean-Costa Rican men. Drawing from three women's narratives, I explore the particularities of how North American women give money to men with whom they ar…
Sexuality, Women, and Tourism
This book is the first to focus on why and how foreign Western women engage in cross-border sexual and intimate relations as tourists travelling, or temporarily dwelling, in a Central American country. As an in-depth ethnographic account, the book traces the experiences of heterosexual North American and European women’s transnational encounters, and examines new sexual and social practices arising from contemporary global tourism, shifting sexua…
Naturalizing bodies and places
Fluid Exchanges
In a transnational tourist town in black Caribbean Costa Rica situated both on the margins of "white" Costa Rican society and squarely in global tourism, the mobility of European and North American women tourists in and out constitute a significant tourist flow. Central to the town's social sexual history and modes of sociability are economically ambiguous sexual and often intimate relations between female tourists and local predominantly black C…
That playfulness of white masculinity’
This article draws upon ethnographic fieldwork carried out at mountain film festivals in three Canadian cities to show how women viewers reacted to and talked about the predominantly masculine narratives and active male subjects that they were bombarded with in the mediated hype of the festival. The women viewers’ interpretations of the films complicated the ‘alleged neutrality’ of men's bodies by drawing attention to nuanced constructions of the…
Wanting the Children and Wanting K2’
The death of British mountaineer Alison Hargreaves, in 1995 while climbing K2 in Pakistan, the world's second-highest mountain, sparked debates in Britain and North America within mountaineering communities and the press. Hargreaves was a contentious figure because she climbed distant, high mountains as the mother of young children, and was thus constructed a 'bad mother'. Drawing on ethnographic research in Banff, Canada and Nepal in 1999 and 20…
Reproductive mobilities
This special issue brings reproduction into a critical mobilities framework. We extend scholarship in cross-border reproductive care and medical mobilities into new theoretical and empirical directions. Reproductive mobilities articulates the mutual constitution of reproduction and mobilities. Human (and nonhuman) movement not only shapes reproduction but produces reproductive imaginaries, desires, futures, trajectories, as well as the subjectivi…
Engaging ethnography in tourist research
Naturalizing bodies and places
Negotiating the “Global” within the Global Playscapes of Mount Everest
En anthropologie du tourisme, les termes « touriste » et « local » sont souvent utilisés pour conceptualiser les relations sociales du tourisme international, où les sujets mobiles des « pays industrialisés » rendent visite aux « autres » du « tiers monde », non mobiles. La mondialisation, à la fois comme discours et comme condition, est en train de changer les contours et les conceptualisations des espaces touristiques. Dans cet article, l'auteu…
Heterosexual Profiling
This article unravels some of the complexities involved for heterosexual women aged 30 years and older using online dating to seek out intimate and sexual relationships with men. Drawing on interviews with online dating users in Canada and from media analysis of women's ‘women-seeking-men’ profiles posted on popular online dating sites, we analyse these data in terms of the discursive and material practices required to ‘become’ and perform hetero…
Pathos of Love in Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica
Most literature on local–tourist intimate relations focuses on the aspirational migration of Third World subjects, and often presumes the unencumbered mobility of tourists. Yet Northern tourists seek out belonging, emplacement and attachment in the global South for reasons to do with love. In this paper I draw upon research in Costa Rica with European and North American women whose emotional subjectivities, I suggest, shape their mobility shift f…
Negotiating the public secrecy of sex in a transnational tourist town in Caribbean Costa Rica
My social positionality as an alleged sex tourist when I arrived as an `unaccompanied' woman traveling to a town in Caribbean Costa Rica to study women's adventure tourism, initiated a shift in ethnographic focus to female tourists' heterosexual sexual relations with locals. Using methodology that relies upon immersion I situated myself within the community and participated in everyday life in and beyond touristic events. I interacted with and in…
Who is Lhakpa Sherpa?' circulating subjectivities within the global/local terrain of Himalayan mountaineering
This paper traces different formations of subjectivities negotiated within the transnational circuits of mountaineering media and cultural production. Drawing from ethnographic research in Nepal and Canada in 2000, I examine various representations of the second Nepali woman to climb Everest in order to demonstrate the linkages between scales and geographies of media narratives and subjectivities. Appearing in newspapers, a research interview wit…
Listening otherwise
This paper explores quests for silence in tourism in English-language online media. We offer a reading of media forms all articulating a soundscape of silence: a preferred sonic environment for tourists’ health and well-being. A relational and reflexive approach allows us to interrogate these taken-for-granted desired silences, and to emplace ourselves in the analysis. Using critical discourse analysis, we try to listen to the sounds produced in …
Canada's forced birth travel
The mandatory travel for birth experienced by Indigenous women living in rural and remote areas of Canada is examined using an emergent lens of Indigenous reproductive mobilities. Current evacuation practices are contextualized within the historic and ongoing systems of oppression experienced by Indigenous people in Canada. Indigenous feminist and decolonial theoretical approaches are used to outline one way in which Indigenous women counter sett…
Introduction
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Intimate Tourism Markets
This article focuses on heterosexual North American and European tourist women in a transnational town in Atlantic Costa Rica renown for its intimate "vibe" and independent eco-oriented tourist development, where they grappled with the unexpected monetary aspects of intimate relations with Caribbean-Costa Rican men. Drawing from three women's narratives, I explore the particularities of how North American women give money to men with whom they ar…
Feeling sexual transgression
Participating in sexual tourism and cross-border sex, heterosexual Euro-North American women are a targeted social group whereby accusations, such as ‘fucking gringa’, label them as sexual transgressors for violating multiple boundaries of heteronormativity. The complex power dynamics of women's cross-border sex are due to negotiations of race, gender, and class that are played out in specific locales and political economies of desire. Within the…
Reproductive vibes
Drawing on a conceptual framework of therapeutic atmospheres, I explore the question of how a tourist destination reverberated with reproductive potentiality or a ‘reproductive vibe.’ I draw on ethnographic fieldwork attentive to the ‘charged atmosphere of everyday life’, to consider how reproductive possibilities unfolded in the Costa Rican Caribbean for some tourist women. Moving away from the autonomous, liberal, mobile subject as only ever a …
Re-Assembling "Risky" Subjects
Drawing upon ethnographic research in Winnipeg, Manitoba, we complicate simplistic epidemiological and sexual health discourses that position African newcomer teen girls and young women as "at-risk" for HIV/AIDS and other consequences of being sexually active. By tracing the trajectories of sexual health messages and utilizing the concept of assemblage, we seek to account for the ways in which risk is actively made and negotiated in practice by A…
Participant-Led Photographs and Repositioningel Mujeriegoor "the Hustler" in Costa Rica's Caribbean Littoral
By using participant-led photography, we examine the complexity in which Black and mixed-race masculinities are imagined and negotiated vis-à-vis interactions and intimate relations with foreign women, in the context of global tourism and transnational intimacies in the South Caribbean littoral of Costa Rica. Photographs were used to reposition local young men, who are often racialized in the tourist imagery, as “takers” of images of their daily …
Mostly with White Girls
In Winnipeg, a midsize city in the Canadian Prairies undergoing social and demographical transformations, male African newcomer youth face challenges in their settlement experiences relating to conflicting and heterogeneous norms around sexuality, sex, and dating. With its diverse population, the city is a space in which both racialization of blackness occurs and "multicultural" ethno-racial diversity is imagined. In this spatiality of youths' ev…
Negotiating the “Global” within the Global Playscapes of Mount Everest
En anthropologie du tourisme, les termes « touriste » et « local » sont souvent utilisés pour conceptualiser les relations sociales du tourisme international, où les sujets mobiles des « pays industrialisés » rendent visite aux « autres » du « tiers monde », non mobiles. La mondialisation, à la fois comme discours et comme condition, est en train de changer les contours et les conceptualisations des espaces touristiques. Dans cet article, l'auteu…
Who is Lhakpa Sherpa?' circulating subjectivities within the global/local terrain of Himalayan mountaineering
This paper traces different formations of subjectivities negotiated within the transnational circuits of mountaineering media and cultural production. Drawing from ethnographic research in Nepal and Canada in 2000, I examine various representations of the second Nepali woman to climb Everest in order to demonstrate the linkages between scales and geographies of media narratives and subjectivities. Appearing in newspapers, a research interview wit…
That playfulness of white masculinity’
This article draws upon ethnographic fieldwork carried out at mountain film festivals in three Canadian cities to show how women viewers reacted to and talked about the predominantly masculine narratives and active male subjects that they were bombarded with in the mediated hype of the festival. The women viewers’ interpretations of the films complicated the ‘alleged neutrality’ of men's bodies by drawing attention to nuanced constructions of the…
Wanting the Children and Wanting K2’
The death of British mountaineer Alison Hargreaves, in 1995 while climbing K2 in Pakistan, the world's second-highest mountain, sparked debates in Britain and North America within mountaineering communities and the press. Hargreaves was a contentious figure because she climbed distant, high mountains as the mother of young children, and was thus constructed a 'bad mother'. Drawing on ethnographic research in Banff, Canada and Nepal in 1999 and 20…
Fluid Exchanges
In a transnational tourist town in black Caribbean Costa Rica situated both on the margins of "white" Costa Rican society and squarely in global tourism, the mobility of European and North American women tourists in and out constitute a significant tourist flow. Central to the town's social sexual history and modes of sociability are economically ambiguous sexual and often intimate relations between female tourists and local predominantly black C…
Engaging ethnography in tourist research
Negotiating the public secrecy of sex in a transnational tourist town in Caribbean Costa Rica
My social positionality as an alleged sex tourist when I arrived as an `unaccompanied' woman traveling to a town in Caribbean Costa Rica to study women's adventure tourism, initiated a shift in ethnographic focus to female tourists' heterosexual sexual relations with locals. Using methodology that relies upon immersion I situated myself within the community and participated in everyday life in and beyond touristic events. I interacted with and in…
Pathos of Love in Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica
Most literature on local–tourist intimate relations focuses on the aspirational migration of Third World subjects, and often presumes the unencumbered mobility of tourists. Yet Northern tourists seek out belonging, emplacement and attachment in the global South for reasons to do with love. In this paper I draw upon research in Costa Rica with European and North American women whose emotional subjectivities, I suggest, shape their mobility shift f…
Naturalizing bodies and places
Heterosexual Profiling
This article unravels some of the complexities involved for heterosexual women aged 30 years and older using online dating to seek out intimate and sexual relationships with men. Drawing on interviews with online dating users in Canada and from media analysis of women's ‘women-seeking-men’ profiles posted on popular online dating sites, we analyse these data in terms of the discursive and material practices required to ‘become’ and perform hetero…
Sexuality, Women, and Tourism
This book is the first to focus on why and how foreign Western women engage in cross-border sexual and intimate relations as tourists travelling, or temporarily dwelling, in a Central American country. As an in-depth ethnographic account, the book traces the experiences of heterosexual North American and European women’s transnational encounters, and examines new sexual and social practices arising from contemporary global tourism, shifting sexua…
Intimate Tourism Markets
This article focuses on heterosexual North American and European tourist women in a transnational town in Atlantic Costa Rica renown for its intimate "vibe" and independent eco-oriented tourist development, where they grappled with the unexpected monetary aspects of intimate relations with Caribbean-Costa Rican men. Drawing from three women's narratives, I explore the particularities of how North American women give money to men with whom they ar…
Feeling sexual transgression
Participating in sexual tourism and cross-border sex, heterosexual Euro-North American women are a targeted social group whereby accusations, such as ‘fucking gringa’, label them as sexual transgressors for violating multiple boundaries of heteronormativity. The complex power dynamics of women's cross-border sex are due to negotiations of race, gender, and class that are played out in specific locales and political economies of desire. Within the…
Introduction
Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-07T13:13:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1\nwos_000366216000006.pdf: 360493 bytes, checksum: 453e5efbb0c3533c8214efa3a3928a60 (MD5)\n Previous issue date: 2016
Mostly with White Girls
In Winnipeg, a midsize city in the Canadian Prairies undergoing social and demographical transformations, male African newcomer youth face challenges in their settlement experiences relating to conflicting and heterogeneous norms around sexuality, sex, and dating. With its diverse population, the city is a space in which both racialization of blackness occurs and "multicultural" ethno-racial diversity is imagined. In this spatiality of youths' ev…
Participant-Led Photographs and Repositioningel Mujeriegoor "the Hustler" in Costa Rica's Caribbean Littoral
By using participant-led photography, we examine the complexity in which Black and mixed-race masculinities are imagined and negotiated vis-à-vis interactions and intimate relations with foreign women, in the context of global tourism and transnational intimacies in the South Caribbean littoral of Costa Rica. Photographs were used to reposition local young men, who are often racialized in the tourist imagery, as “takers” of images of their daily …
Re-Assembling "Risky" Subjects
Drawing upon ethnographic research in Winnipeg, Manitoba, we complicate simplistic epidemiological and sexual health discourses that position African newcomer teen girls and young women as "at-risk" for HIV/AIDS and other consequences of being sexually active. By tracing the trajectories of sexual health messages and utilizing the concept of assemblage, we seek to account for the ways in which risk is actively made and negotiated in practice by A…
Reproductive mobilities
This special issue brings reproduction into a critical mobilities framework. We extend scholarship in cross-border reproductive care and medical mobilities into new theoretical and empirical directions. Reproductive mobilities articulates the mutual constitution of reproduction and mobilities. Human (and nonhuman) movement not only shapes reproduction but produces reproductive imaginaries, desires, futures, trajectories, as well as the subjectivi…
Canada's forced birth travel
The mandatory travel for birth experienced by Indigenous women living in rural and remote areas of Canada is examined using an emergent lens of Indigenous reproductive mobilities. Current evacuation practices are contextualized within the historic and ongoing systems of oppression experienced by Indigenous people in Canada. Indigenous feminist and decolonial theoretical approaches are used to outline one way in which Indigenous women counter sett…
Reproductive vibes
Drawing on a conceptual framework of therapeutic atmospheres, I explore the question of how a tourist destination reverberated with reproductive potentiality or a ‘reproductive vibe.’ I draw on ethnographic fieldwork attentive to the ‘charged atmosphere of everyday life’, to consider how reproductive possibilities unfolded in the Costa Rican Caribbean for some tourist women. Moving away from the autonomous, liberal, mobile subject as only ever a …
You Never Know What Will Happen
In a small town in the Caribbean region of Costa Rica, affective tourism economies shape the ways that the future is imagined and played out for racialized local youth. We tell a story of one interlocutor, Fred, a sanguine young man with a troubled childhood, to explore how intensities and emotions in his encounters with a wealthy tourist during his late teen years generated possibilities. Events unfolded to become eventfulness that made the futu…
Gender, Holidays, and Tourism
Histories, cultures, practices, and embodied experiences of tourism and holiday making are thoroughly gendered, and anthropologists have been at the forefront of documenting and analyzing the intersections of gender, tourism, and holidays. Questions of difference are central to anthropological accounts of the possibilities and limitations of desire, pleasure, and mobility that stem from the naturalization of gender differences. The initial concep…
Messy Free-For-All Or An “Aha!” Moment
This paper traces a collaboration between a White settler anthropologist and Black community liaison and researcher in the design and implementation of HIV awareness strategies. Based on ethnographic research with young people from African newcomer communities who settled in Winnipeg, Canada, their sense that HIV did not exist in Canada was the impetus for our movement of knowledge-to-action. Rather than deliver the facts to them as a passive aud…
Loss, Commemoration, and Listening… For Yoko
In this exploratory piece, I draw from sound studies and the anthropology of sound to find my way in to a long overdue commemoration of a participant-interlocutor and friend who died in 2018. In thinking back on the significance of sound and listening in our evolving relationship, I work through my grief and loss. I offer two “listening stories” as a means to both honour Yoko and to reflect upon my own “listening habits, privilege and biases” (Ro…
Emerging from the shadows of the Covid-19 pandemic and building back better
Four papers on tourism in Asia constitute this issue.Thus, the first issue of 2023 offers our readers a platform to reflect upon Asian critical tourism scholarship and the journal's support of this growing area within tourist studies. A call for Asian tourism scholarship in post-COVID-19 or still-viral timesPrior to the COVID-19 pandemic, tourism economies in Asia were booming in ways unimagined previously.References to 'The Asian Century', a ter…
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