Steven Fabian, associate professor of History, co-edited the latest issue of Radical History Review, a top history journal devoted to issues of gender, race, sexuality, imperialism and class that stretches the boundaries of historical analysis to explore Western and non-Western histories.
"Unpacking Tourism" (Issue 129, October 2017) posits a radical approach to the study of tourism, highlighting how tourism as a paradigmatic modern encounter bleeds into diplomacy, militarism and empire building. Contributors investigate, among other topics, how the United States has used tourism in Latin America as a tool of interventionist foreign policy, how Bethlehem’s Manger Square has become a contested space between Palestinians and the Israeli state, how Spain’s economy increasingly relies on northern European tourists and how the U.S. military’s Cold War-era guidebooks attempted to convert soldiers stationed abroad into “ambassadors of goodwill.”
Dr. Fabian has served as a member of the Radical History Review's Editorial Collective since 2014.
