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Podcast: Tourism Geographies Podcast
Episode: The spectral geographies of slavery: tourism and the hauntings of dissonant colonial heritage
Description: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14616688.2024.2328612AbstractThe spectral geography of the colonial legacy in Bristol is marked by a series of absences from official and tourist narratives about the city. The people and practices of the Atlantic slave trade are part of the historical and contemporary fabric of the city and persist as ever-present spectres. There are significant differences of view that agree with little beyond that the city was a major port of Empire and a significant site in the triangular trade. Bristol is commonly portrayed as a multicultural city...