Alluring Opportunities : : Tourism, Empire, and African Labor in Colonial Mozambique / / Todd Cleveland.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
• VerfasserIn: Cleveland, Todd,
• MitwirkendeR: Zuelow, Eric G. E.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Histories and Cultures of Tourism
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (216 p.) :; 8 b&w halftones, 3 maps
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Foreword --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction: The Codevelopment of Tourism in Colonial Mozambique --; Chapter 1 The Promise and Delivery of Tourism in a Colonial Space --; Chapter 2 “Europe in Africa” Tourism in Lourenço Marques --; Chapter 3 Urban Nightlife The Powerful Allure of the “Forbidden Fruit” --; Chapter 4 The Lure of the Game International Hunters and African Guides --; Chapter 5 Safari Shooting Mozambique’s Wildlife with a Camera --; Epilogue Postcolonial Legacies of Colonial-era Tourism --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501768330; 9783110751833; 9783111319292; 9783111318912; 9783111319131; 9783111318189
• DOI: 10.1515/9781501768330
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Todd Cleveland.

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 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, inter-racial interactions, and power relations.