RASUL A. MOWATT

Research Affiliate

Rasul A. Mowatt, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Departments of American Studies and Geography in the College of Arts + Science at Indiana University. Relevant areas of focus are the: Geographies of Race, Geographies of Violence and Threat, and the Political Animation of Public Space. Selected published work has discussed: The ways that White nationalists have used public space and events for the coalescing and bureaucratization of their ideologies in Leisure Studies; In a year-long community-based organization embedment looking at public participation across Race and class lines in the creation of large scale event capital campaigns tied to Olympic bidding in Revue Loisir et Societe - Leisure and Society; The liminality of identity and activism in protest events in Liminality and Critical Event Studies: Boundaries, Borders and Contestation; The complex role of racial identity, historical trauma, and destination management in touring Ghanaian Slave Castles in Annals of Tourism Research; The intersections of historical racial violence and racial discrimination that informs Black travel in Current Issues in Tourism; and, The utilization of archival maps and materials of the work of W. E. B. Du Bois’ The Philadelphia Negro to consider how cities have historical and racialized impacts on quality of life.

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Contact: ramowatt@indiana.edu

Selected Publications