Phil Karber

Postmarks from a Political Traveler (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

As spring and summer vacations beckon, this book invites and incites a whole new approach to travel. "e;Postmarks from a Political Traveler"e; is a series of travel recollections confronting the troubling topics of roots and racism, polar bears and climate change, anti-Americanism, and the war in Afghanistan. The book opens with the story of the author s experience growing up in the Jim Crow South, traveling in apartheid South Africa, and living in the post-apartheid South Africa of 2009 and 2010. It explores the not-so-dissimilar roots and racism of the United States and South Africa, as well as the cross-fertilization of ideas between the two countries. The next installment chronicles two trips to Churchill, Manitoba, where the planet s largest population of polar bears congregate each October. It recounts the dramatic changes that have occurred in both the human and the polar bear communities in just the last decade and shows how the bears have become an Arctic version of the proverbial canary in the coalmine. Then the book shifts to the author s journey back to the United States on a German freighter with a rabidly anti-American captain. Woven into this account of life aboard a long haul ship are threads of the author s travels and anti-American encounters over a decade of living in Africa and Asia. The book concludes with reflections on trips to Afghanistan in 2004 and in 2012, describing the effects of war and conflict zone politics on women, education, refugees, and aid workers. What ties these episodes together is the author s commitment to social justice and to changing the world through travel and writing that is, affirming travel as a political act."e;

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317253730
• Artikelnr.: 49353706

Autorenporträt

Authored by Karber, Phil

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I Down at the Blue Lagoon
Chapter 1 Two Minds, Two Worlds, One Country
Chapter 2 Lest We Forget
Chapter 3 Go Hunting Where the Ducks Are
Chapter 4 The Cross-Fertilization of Attitudes and Practices
Chapter 5 Religion, Education, Poverty, Xenophobia, and Rainbows
Part II Polar Bears
Chapter 6 The Hudson Bay Train to Churchill
Chapter 7 A Blue-Ribbon Day and a Blue Moon
Chapter 8 Canaries in the Coal Mine
Part III An Anti-American Age
Chapter 9 Beauty Is As Beauty Does
Chapter 10 Pirates at Sea
Chapter 11 Tiger Cages and Torture
Chapter 12 We Believe
Therefore It Must Be True
Chapter 13 Mooning the Russian Army
Chapter 14 Bush, Brickbats, and Bouquets in the Koreas
Chapter 15 Welcome Home, Man
Part IV Return to Kabul
Chapter 16 Testing Our Resolve
Chapter 17 An Improvised Excursion through Kabul
Chapter 18 Fortress America and an Army of Aid Workers
Chapter 19 Let Me Die in My Footsteps