Tourism and Language in Vieques: An Ethnography of the Post-Navy Period

Luis Galanes Valldejuli

doi:10.5771/9781498555425

Summary

After more than sixty years of occupation by the U.S. Navy and intensive community struggles, the Puerto Rican island of Vieques was finally returned to civilian control in 2003. But, as this book documents, the Viequenses’ struggles were far form over after the departure of the Navy. The Viequenses were left to contend with the devastating effects of sixty-two years of bombing; the environment and health of the population had been severely harmed. Yet this was a minor issue in comparison to the effects of the newly instated tourism industry on the island. Drawing from ethnographic research conducted between 2004 to 2016, Luis Galanes Valldejuli captures the larger social conflict derived from the arrival of tourists, who brought change to the island in the form of land speculation, work conflicts, racism, language barriers, and neoliberalism. A close observer of the Viequenses, Valldejuli details the deleterious effects of tourism on the voice of the Viequenses: they were no longer heard. This book is recommended for scholars of anthropology, tourism studies, linguistics, cultural geography, political science, and history.

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Edition: 1/2017
Copyright year: 2017
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4985-5541-8
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4985-5542-5
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 158
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
3. Introduction No access
1. The Division Between Hosts And Guests No access
2. The Division Between Positive And Negative Assessments Of Tourism No access
3. Notes No access
1. Land Titles No access
2. The Land Recovery Movements No access
3. Verde Vieques No access
4. La Hueca No access
5. La Hueca Meeting In 2011 No access
6. El Monte No access
7. Ethics Of The Land For The Land No access
8. Final Remarks No access
9. Notes No access
1. Discourse About The Laziness Of Viequenses Produced By Foreigners No access
2. A Viequense Response No access
3. The Viequense Acceptance Of The Accusation Of Laziness As Valid And Truth No access
4. First Element: The Discourse Of Viequenses Is Not An Anti-work Discourse No access
5. Second Element: The Link Between Work And No access
6. Third Element: The Puerto Rican Tradition Of Talking About Their Own Laziness No access
7. Fourth Element: The Acceptance Of The Accusation Using The Third-person Plural No access
8. Fifth Element: Clash Between Discourses Separated By No access
9. Final Remarks No access
10. Notes No access
1. The Dangers Of Essentialism No access
2. Heritage Tourism And Authenticity No access
3. Typologies Of Tourists No access
4. The Creole Or Pidgin Metaphor No access
5. Final Remarks No access
6. Note No access
1. The Bipolar Black-white Model Of American Citizenship No access
2. Racial Categorization Systems In Vieques And The Hispanic Caribbean No access
3. Typology Of Gringos: The Old Ones And The New Ones No access
4. Struggle For The Control Of Esperanza And The MalecÓn No access
5. The History Of Danny’s Burger No access
6. Final Remarks No access
7. Notes No access
1. Crime No access
2. Final Remarks No access
1. Sun Bay Resort No access
2. Dos Palmas No access
3. Mosquito Village No access
4. Final Remarks No access
5. Notes No access
Conclusion No access Pages 133 - 136
Bibliography No access Pages 137 - 148
Author Index No access Pages 149 - 152
Subject Index No access Pages 153 - 156
About the Author No access Pages 157 - 158