{"pk":58087,"title":"Excerpts from THE ROMANCE OF SIAM: A POCKET GUIDE","subtitle":null,"abstract":"These pieces are excerpts from the forthcoming book THE ROMANCE OF SIAM: A POCKET GUIDE, which is a subverted travel guide that interrogates the desire White people have to lose and reinvent themselves in Thailand. I track how this “White love” manifests in the tourism industry, popular American media and the western imaginary in order to reveal the connections between tourism and colonization.","language":"en","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Articles","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0cf8m7zg","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Jai","middle_name":"Arun","last_name":"Ravine","name_suffix":"","institution":"","department":""}],"date_submitted":"2015-10-29T17:51:39Z","date_accepted":"2015-10-29T17:51:39Z","date_published":"2016-05-17T07:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/ucdavislibrary_streetnotes/article/58087/galley/44251/download/"}]}