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Alluring Opportunities - Tourism, Empire, and African Labor in Colonial Mozambique (Hardcover)
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Alluring Opportunities - Tourism, Empire, and African Labor in Colonial Mozambique (Hardcover)
Series: Histories and Cultures of Tourism
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Alluring Opportunities examines the lives of African laborers in
the tourism industry in the Portuguese colony of Mozambique and the
social ascension that many of these workers achieved in spite of
demanding conditions. From the origin of the colonial period until
its end in 1975, the tourism industry developed on the backs of
these laborers and ultimately became an important source of foreign
exchange for Portugal. Todd Cleveland explores the daily
experiences of local tourism workers in the genesis and expansion
of this vital industry with an analytical utility that transcends
Africa's borders by complicating the narrative established and
reinforced by an expansive body of literature that stresses the
exploitation of indigenous tourism workers. He argues that just as
foreign tourists embraced the opportunity to travel to various
locations in Mozambique, so too did many Indigenous laborers seize
opportunities for employment in the tourism industry in an effort
to realize social mobility via both the steady wages that they
earned and their daily interactions with sojourning clientele.
Alluring Opportunities reconstructs these workers' lives,
highlighting their critical contributions to the local industry,
while also prompting a reconsideration of Indigenous labor and
social mobility in colonial Africa. As a result, Cleveland reveals
new ways of thinking, more broadly, about the ways that tourism
shapes processes of empire, interracial interactions, and power
relations.
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