Akash Belsare and Sofía Martínez Rivera

Author Bio

Akash Belsare is an assistant professor of English at the University of Illinois Springfield and a Public Voices fellow with The OpEd Project. Sofía Martínez Rivera is a public history educator and the Director of Detours at Memoria (De)colonial.

January 16, 2026

Thoughts on colonialism when being a tourist

By Akash Belsare “[W]hen the natives see you, the tourist, they envy you, they envy your ability to leave your own banality and boredom, they envy your ability to turn their banality and boredom into…

≡