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This paper examines the significance of Strawberry Fields, the memorial to John Lennon in Central Park, New York City, as a place of secular pilgrimage. Situated within postmodern conceptualizations of secular pilgrimage, Strawberry Fields is shown to be the spatial focus of a variety of discourses related to John Lennon's life and music. Furthermore, this paper illustrates how autobiography as a qualitative research method can reveal the sentiments that motivate particular pilgrims to places associated with major figures in popular music.

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Geographers and other social scientists have largely neglected Malcolm X as a critical theorist. Unlike the attention accorded to Franz Fanon, the writings and speeches of Malcolm X have remained unexplored for their potential contribution to political geographic thought. As a corrective, in this paper we situate Malcolm X within the rubric of critical geopolitics and postcolonial theory. We contend that Malcolm X, during the last year of his life, was formulating a geopolitics of oppression. We further assert that the geopolitics of Malcolm X were decidedly critical and anti‐colonial, and that his discourse foreshadows elements of contemporary social theory. Specifically, Malcolm X instructed his audiences to educate themselves about the relationships between imperial power and he addressed the politics of representation by representing the issues of American racial oppression as one of global oppression.

Este artículo se centra en la ciudad de Point Pleasant, West Virginia, ubicada en la confluencia de los ríos Ohio y Kanawha en el valle de Ohio. Examina los procesos que intervienen en el desarrollo y coordinación de varios tipos de turismo. Además de promover el turismo de patrimonio, Point Pleasant se promociona como el lugar de los presuntos avistamientos del Mothman, una criatura monstruosa representada en una película protagonizada por Richard Gere. Point Pleasant también ganó la atención nacional en 1967 cuando el puente de plata/Silver Bridge se cayó/se derrumbó/se colapsó/se desplomó al río Ohio resultando en más de 40 muertes. Este proyecto proporciona un análisis de las formas en que las narrativas del turismo de patrimonio y paranormal se entrelazan con las narrativas y los marcadores de la catástrofe del puente. A través de entrevistas con los líderes locales y un análisis del paisaje turístico de Point Pleasant, este artículo ilumina las estrategias empleadas por los líderes locales para mejorar la economía local y moldear activamente la representación de la ciudad a sus visitantes.