According to several news outlets, the tourism industry is set to lose 50 billion to 1 trillion dollars and 50 million travel jobs due to the pandemic. Some destinations may be lost as well. It’s possible that some of our favorite spots may only exist in memory and the souvenirs we’ve collected.
In this edition of Radio Chipstone, contributor gianofer fields reaches back into the archives to bring us an interview recorded in the old Memorial Union. In it, fields gets to the very core of material culture with Dydia DeLyser, Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Environment at USC Fullerton and author of Ramona Memories: Tourism and the Shaping of Southern California.
About the Host:
Gianofer (JON nah fer) Fields is an Art Historian and Material Culture contributor and curates the Radio Chipstone series. The project is hosted by the School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and funded by the Chipstone Foundation; a decorative arts foundation whose mission is preserving and interpreting their collection, as well as stimulating research and education in decorative arts.
About the Guest:
Dydia DeLyser is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Environment at California State University Fullerton. She is a feminist, qualitative, cultural-historical geographer with research interests that span landscape, social memory, tourism, mobilities, practice and performance, materialities, and collaborative and participatory research. She is the author of Ramona Memories: Tourism and the Shaping of Southern California.
Image: Cover of “Ramona” by Helen Hunt Jackson. Photo by Michael on Flickr.
This segment comes from the Radio Chipstone Archives on WUWM Milwaukee Public Radio. See here.
