You Never Know What Will Happen
Youth, Affect, and the Eventfulness of Tourism Encounters
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2262174 |
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| Authors | Susan Frohlick (0000-0002-4511-826X, University of British Columbia, corresponding author), Carolina Meneses Zamora (Neighbourhood Pharmacy Association of Canada) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 260-278 |
| Publication date | 2020-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropology & Humanism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1548-1409 • E-ISSN: 1559-9167 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/anhu.12292 |
| OpenAlex | W3095636177 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 19 |
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 future something. For youth like Fred, affective encounters with tourists instantiated the future, or rather, moved the future along, in indeterminate rather than predetermined or inevitable ways. Nevertheless, the hopefulness felt by Fred about the next tourist encounter that lay before him was tempered by his devaluation vis-à-vis a well-off expat patrona (boss), who both stirred and deterred his dreams for "a" future
Aesthetics · Affect (linguistics · Art · Boss · Devaluation · Economics · Hopefulness · Political science · Sociology · Tourism · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Engineering · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Music History and Culture · Psychology · Social Psychology
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