Indigenous Mobilities, Tourism, and Racial Capitalism

Indigenous Mobilities, Tourism, and Racial Capitalism explores how Indigenous communities creatively respond to the cascading effects of mega-development projects and mass tourism—such as neglect of local needs, dispossession and displacement, destruction of local ecosystems, and other consequences—at various sites around the world. The main institute meeting will be hosted by Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán and held in Yucatán, Mexico from January 5–16, 2026.

Indigenous Mobilities, Tourism, and Racial Capitalism is a Global Humanities Institute sponsored by the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes and the Mellon Foundation. This Institute is a partnership between The Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Minnesota, The Unidad de Proyectos Sociales (Center for Social Projects) at the Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán (UADY), and Humanities Research Centre at Australian National University. Other collaborators include: Co’ox Mayab, Alba Sud, The Conflucenter for Creative Inquiry at the University of Arizona, and University of California San Diego Department of Communication.