Listen "Flight mode: travel, privilege, and identity (ft. Chris Patterson)"
Episode Synopsis
Like many of us travelling for the first time, Isa’s first solo-trip to Asia brought about a lot of conflicting feelings, questions and thoughts — What privileges might our passports and accents afford us as we move through the world? What does it mean to be marked foreign or have to deliberately mark yourself foreign in places where everyone looks like you? What happens when we voyage to places and find ourselves caught in the middle of existing conflicts larger than ourselves?
Hoping to find some answers, this month she sat down with Chris Patterson, author of Stamped: an anti travel novel, and lead developer of “Stamped: an anti travel game” to discuss these hard questions around travel, privilege and identity.
Tune in now.
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Guest bio - Christopher B. Patterson is an Associate Professor in the Social Justice Institute at the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on transpacific discourses of literature, games, and films through the lens of empire studies, queer theory and creative writing.
Hoping to find some answers, this month she sat down with Chris Patterson, author of Stamped: an anti travel novel, and lead developer of “Stamped: an anti travel game” to discuss these hard questions around travel, privilege and identity.
Tune in now.
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Guest bio - Christopher B. Patterson is an Associate Professor in the Social Justice Institute at the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on transpacific discourses of literature, games, and films through the lens of empire studies, queer theory and creative writing.
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