Dispossession, Tourism, and Desire

Through the lens of Indigenous Sovereignty, tourism, and development, an image analysis of a Florida landscape will be shared by Emily Velez Nelms. The image, however, offers more than a landscape; it provides a complex visual history that underscores the profound impact of cultural tourism on the built environment. This gallery talk will speak to the ‘politics of home’ in how notions of paradise and the exotic are deeply intertwined with local formations of race and suburbia.