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Gender, Advertising and Ethics: Marketing Cuba
Nigel Morgan 
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Annette Pritchard
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Annette Pritchard
Tourism Planning & Development, Pages: 1 - 18
Swansea University Author:
Nigel Morgan
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DOI (Published version): 10.1080/21568316.2017.1403372
Abstract
Online advertisements are representations of ethnographic knowledge and sites of cultural production, social interaction and individual experience. Based on a critical discourse analysis of an online Iberia Airlines advertisement and a series of blogs, this paper reveals how the myths and fantasies...
| Published in: | Tourism Planning & Development |
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| ISBN: | ISSN: 2156-8324 |
| ISSN: | 2156-8316 2156-8324 |
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2017
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa36343 |
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Online advertisements are representations of ethnographic knowledge and sites of cultural production, social interaction and individual experience. Based on a critical discourse analysis of an online Iberia Airlines advertisement and a series of blogs, this paper reveals how the myths and fantasies privileged within the discourses of the advertising and travel industries entwine to exoticise and eroticise Cuba. The paper analyses how constructions of Cuba are framed by its colonial past, merging the feminine and the exotic in a soft primitivism. Tourism is Cuba’s largest foreign exchange earner and a significant link between the island and the global capitalist system. These colonial descriptions of Cuba create a rhetoric of desire that entangles Cuba and its women in a discourse of beauty, conquest and domination and have actual consequences for tourism workers and dream economies, in this case reinforcing the oppression of Afro-Cuban women by stereotyping and objectifying them. |
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| Keywords: |
advertising; ethics; social responsibility; airlines; race. |
| College: |
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
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1 |
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18 |