Displacing the Gaze: Mapping and Re-filming a Travelogue Film In/Of Quintana Roo, Mexico

• In Event: Research In Progress Roundtables Session 4
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Abstract

In this inter/transdisciplinary study, I am enacting a research/education experience by “mapping” and “re-filming” a 1978 travelogue film that depicted a quasi-nonfictional journey to tourism sites in Quintana Roo, Mexico. I am incorporating concepts across disciplines including education philosophy, geography, and curriculum studies and working with qualitative methods—such as ethnographic fragments and inventive methods—that draw from arts-based practices, the (digital) humanities, and social science research. The main site of the study has a large Indigenous population and has undergone profound ecological, social change since a development campaign from the Mexican government in the 1970s. I am concurrently creating media that aims to “deconstruct” and “reassemble” the original film along with new multimedia texts created during the research process.

Author

• Randall Beaver, Florida International University