{"id":9780,"date":"2019-01-25T16:06:25","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T16:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=9780"},"modified":"2019-04-04T15:02:38","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T14:02:38","slug":"rebecca-ogden-fyre-festival-fiasco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2019\/01\/25\/rebecca-ogden-fyre-festival-fiasco\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebecca Ogden writes for &#8216;The Conversation&#8217; on Fyre Festival fiasco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/modern-languages\/staff\/ogden.html\">Dr Rebecca Ogden<\/a>, Lecturer in Latin American Studies in the Department of Modern Languages, has recently published an article for <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/uk\"><em>The Conversation<\/em><\/a> based on the controversial Fyre music festival, which was scheduled to take place in 2017 on the\u00a0Bahamian\u00a0island of\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Great_Exuma\">Great <\/a>Exuma and has been the focus of recent documentaries on Hulu and Netflix.<\/p>\n<p>In &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/fyre-festival-fiasco-exploitation-of-caribbean-islanders-highlights-colonial-legacy-of-tourism-110302\">Fyre festival fiasco: exploitation of Caribbean islanders highlights colonial legacy of\u00a0tourism<\/a>&#8216;, Rebecca writes: &#8220;Luxury, consumption, hedonism and sexual conquest are all tropes that have been long associated with travel to the Caribbean. The 2017 luxury music event Fyre Festival [and its organisers], repackaged these tropes for a millennial market. But thanks to drastically insufficient planning, the fantasy turned into a nightmare&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Fyre fiasco and the documentaries that have followed it expose the cruel reality of a global capitalist system where material resources and labour have been (often violently) extracted from \u201cperipheral\u201d countries by \u201ccore\u201d countries.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Rebecca Ogden, Lecturer in Latin American Studies in the Department of Modern Languages, has recently published an article for The Conversation based on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2019\/01\/25\/rebecca-ogden-fyre-festival-fiasco\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52167,"featured_media":10290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9780"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9780"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9805,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9780\/revisions\/9805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}