My contribution to the new Springer Encyclopedia of Tourism, on Carrying Capacity, has just been published. I blogged about this, and the possibilities for linking this concept to big data, last year -you can read this here.
If you would like a copy of the entry for research purposes, please contact me directly.
This looks set to be a really interesting event. As tourism has matured as an academic area, there has been increasing activity in this field, with academics and organisations producing and responding to an emerging ‘critical turn’ in tourism studies. This turn, which other disciplines such as (for example) history, literature and geography encountered at various stages in their own development, opens up new possibilities for tourism studies to engage with ‘bigger’ issues such as social justice, environmental politics and gender. This new ‘Critical Tourism Studies’ movement is inter-disciplinary and is moving beyond the narrow disciplinary focus of much tourism studies as a subject with business or management schools.
The next Critical Tourism Studies conference is being held in Sarajevo, the capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, on 25-28th June 2013. I’ve copied the call for paper below:
CALL FOR PAPERS
INTERNATIONAL CRITICAL TOURISM STUDIES CONFERENCE V
JUNE 25th – 28th 2013
SARAJEVO, BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA
Tourism Critical Practice: Activating Dreams into Action
Join us in Sarajevo for the 5th Critical Tourism Studies Conference. This is a conference with a difference, with a great line-up of keynote speakers and a strong CSR vision. For more information, take a look at our website:
http://somwp.som.surrey.ac.uk/cts/
Keynote speakers:
MICHAEL HALL (University of Canterbury)
TOM SELWYN (SOAS, University of London)
FREYA HIGGINS-DESBIOLLES & KYLE POWYS WHITE (University of Southern Australia & Michigan State University)
We welcome papers and offers to lead interactive workshops on the following themes:
Critical action in the classroom
Tourism and its potential as a social force
Critical tourism research practices
Critical scholarship in action
All abstracts should be written in English and must not exceed 300 words in length. Abstracts should be sent to cts@surrey.ac.uk and must include: author(s), affiliation(s), a summary of the research aims, approach and key arguments/findings.
Key dates
Abstracts: 31st January 2013. Authors will be notified of acceptance before 15th February 2013.
Full papers (5000 words) and working papers (2000 words) for online, refereed, free-access conference proceedings: April 1st 2013. Full and working papers should be submitted electronically to cts@surrey.ac.uk. Style for papers: Arial 11, double spaced, reference in Harvard style.
Contact the conference conveners:
Dr Lynn Minnaert – l.minnaert@surrey.ac.uk
Dr Senija Causevic – senija.causevic@soas.ac.uk
Dr Irena Ateljevic – irena.ateljevic@iztzg.hr
Professor Nigel Morgan – nmorgan@cardiffmet.ac.uk
Professor Annette Pritchard – apritchard@cardiffmet.ac.uk
Wesley Rykalski and I have had the abstract below accepted for the ATLAS 2011 conference in Valmeira, Latvia. The theme of the conference is ’Landscape and Tourism: a dualistic relationship”. Our plan for this paper is to take the methodology that we’ve been developing through the ‘Reading the Arcades / Reading the Promenades’ project over the last two years and apply it to other tourist spaces, in order to test its value as a new approach to engaging with the non-spaces (Auge 1995) of much touristic practice.
Ixia , the public art think tank, have produced some great stuff on public art, and this event has the best name I’ve come across for an event in a long time. On top of all that, it’s free!
I’ve been working on some new research with a colleague, Samantha Chaperon, which uses dependency theory as a framework for analysing the development of seaside towns. In particular, we’re interested in what light this research can shed on the new Local Enterprise Partnerships that affect these towns. We’ll be presenting the early stages of our research at the ATHE conference from 1-3 December in Canterbury, UK, and I’ve included the abstract for the paper below:
Peripherality in tourism has traditionally been a concept used to contrast remote, economically disadvantaged, often exotic locations, with the prosperous tourism generating core(s) of northern, western nations. Dependency theory highlights the tension that this creates between nations and populations whose relationships are constructed on the basis of inequality (Britton 1982). This ‘core-periphery conflict’ has produced global landscapes of tourism governance that reflect these inequalities (Jordan 2004).
There have been relatively few attempts to study the governance of domestic tourism within the context of core-periphery theory (CPT). This is a significant omission in tourism and governance literature as domestic tourism at the local level also manifests economic and social inequalities which can lead to conflict (Weaver 1998, Bianchi 2002).
This paper examines the historical and contemporary development of British seaside towns, and the governance of tourism in these towns from a CPT perspective, concentrating on three historical periods. Firstly, the mid 19th century in which their development was tied to the growth of British industrial centres. Secondly, the period in the second half of the 20th century when the growth of southern Mediterranean resorts presented a challenge to seaside towns and, finally, the first two decades of the 21st century in which attempts to regenerate seaside tourism in the UK have been governed by the spatial remits of Regional Development Agencies and the new Local Enterprise Partnerships (Kennell 2010).
The Association for Tourism in Higher Education is pleased to announce its Annual Conference and Call for Papers and Call for Papers
ATHE Annual Conference 2010 1st – 3rd Dec 2010 BACK TO THE FUTURE: RESTATING THE CASE FOR TOURISM IN HIGHER EDUCATION
http://www.athe.org.uk/conference/default.aspx
Hosted by Canterbury Christ Church University and Canterbury Cathedral Lodge
KEYNOTES
John Penrose (Tourism Minister) TBC
Kurt Jansen (Tourism Alliance)
Professor David Airey (University of Surrey)
Noel Josephides (Sunvil)
THEMES
Changing landscapes of the Tourism Industry
Changing landscapes of Tourism governance
Changing Landscapes of Higher Education and Tourism in Higher Education
Papers are welcomed under the following subthemes:
Horizon scanning
Importance of ethics/sustainability/globalization
The changing HE environment
Issues of employability
Corporate social responsibility
Relevance of tourism in wider society
Tourismification of society / of cities.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Full papers, presentation of works in progress and posters, which support the conference aim and within the conference themes, are invited. Papers from other themes not listed above but reflecting the conference’s overall aim are also welcome.
ABSTRACTS
You are invited to submit an abstract of +/-200 words by 30th September 2010 using the attached abstract form, which can also be downloaded from the website: http://www.athe.org.uk/conference/
Abstracts should be submitted by e-mail to secretary@athe.org.uk and should indicate background, practical implications, methods and/or data sources, and indicative findings of the paper. All abstracts will be subject to a review process.
REGISTRATION
Registration details will be published shortly.
INFORMATION
For further information please contact Dr Marion Stuart-Hoyle, ATHE Vice-Chair/Secretary: marion.stuart-hoyle@canterbury.ac.uk
I’ve recently had this monograph, based on my Master’s research, published as a book called ‘Simulated Cities: cultural regeneration, branding and representation in urban development’. Click on the image below to find out more information…
Wesley has posted up the latest contribution to our ‘Reading the Arcades, reading the Promenades’ blog, where we are attempting to bring together our readings of Walter Benjamins’ ‘Arcades Project‘ and apply these to the British seaside promenade.
A taster of Wesley’s piece:
“Benjamin is, very, clear and, far too, concise in his summation of the method of The Arcades Project. Convolute N, which deals with his historical method and his analysis of that method (moving into the philosophy of method and history), contains a very great deal of material but the following are his key methodological statements on the Project itself.
This work has to develop to the highest degree the art of citing without quotation marks. Its theory is intimately related to that of montage.
[N1,10]Method of this project: literary montage. I needn’t say anything. Merely show. I shall purloin no valuables, appropriate no ingenious formulations. But the rags, the refuse – these I will not inventory but allow, in the only way possible, to come into their own: by making use of them.
[N1a,8] “
This looks to be an excellent event. Wesley Rykalski and I will probably be submitting a paper, based on some of our work on our arcades / promenades project.
Symposium
Liverpool John Moores University
1st July 2010
Convenors
Dr Hazel Andrews, (Tourism, Consumer and Food Studies, LJMU)
Dr Kevin Meethan, Department of Sociology, University of Plymouth
Dr Les Roberts (School of Architecture, University of Liverpool)
Ideas and concepts of liminality have long shaped debates around the uses and practices of space in tourism. Victor Turner’s writings on ritual and communitas, Graburn’s theory of tourism as a sacred journey, or Shield’s discussion of ‘places on the margin’ have secured a well-established foothold in the theoretical landscapes of travel and mobility. The unique qualities of liminal landscapes, as developed by these and other writers on the subject, are generally held to be those which play host to ideas of the ludic, consumption, carnivalesque, inversion or suspension of normative social and moral structures of everyday life, deterritorialisation and ‘becoming’, and so on. While these arguments and tropes remain pertinent, and their metaphorical appeal evermore attractive, the extent to which these spaces provoke counter ideas of social control, terror, surveillance, production and territorialisation, invites an urgent call to re-evaluate the meanings attached to ideas of the ‘liminal’ in tourism studies. The deaths of 21 Chinese migrant workers in Morecambe Bay in 2004 has prompted a sobering re-assessment of the coastal resort as a site of tourism, leisure and consumption. The shifting social geographies associated with these landscapes has meant that the example of the beach may equally be looked upon as a space of transnational labour, migrancy, racial tension, death, fear, uncertainty and disorientation. In this instance, the precarious and un-navigable natural landscape of Morecambe sands becomes a metonym for the increasingly de-stabilising landscapes of trans- or post-national capitalist mobility. Moreover, the settlement of asylum seekers and refugees in UK coastal resorts such as Margate has exposed the underlying tensions and social divisions between representations that play on the ludic, touristic heritage of these resorts and those which address the marginality and exclusion that characterises the other set of mobilities and meanings evoked by these spaces. In addition, the appropriation of liminal landscapes by, for example, local authorities, commercial bodies and marketeers constructs an increasingly mediated or textualised space of performance that re-fashions the embodied (and embedded) spaces as lived by those who make up their diverse social fabric.
We invite contributions from across a broad interdisciplinary field, including scholars and practitioners working in tourism and mobility studies, anthropology, geography, film and cultural studies. We also invite multimedia submissions on the topic of liminal landscapes.
For enquiries and further details contact Dr Hazel Andrews H.J.Andrews@ljmu.ac.uk.
Please submit proposals for papers (300 words maximum) by e-mail to H.J.Andrews@ljmu.ac.uk. We also welcome proposals for panels and exhibits.
Deadline for proposals: 30 September 2009
Notification of acceptance: November 2009
Date for Registration: March 2010
Final submission deadline for full papers: 7 January 2010
Papers selected from the conference proceedings will be published in Journal of Tourism Consumption and Practice (www.tourismconsumption.org.).
Faculty of
Education, Community and Leisure
Dr Hazel Andrews PhD, MA, BSc
Senior Lecturer Tourism, Culture and Society
Centre for Tourism, Consumer and Food Studies
IM Marsh, Barkhill Road, Aigburth, Liverpool, L17 6BD
t: 0151 231 5234 e: H.J.Andrews@ljmu.ac.uk
w: www.ljmu.ac.uk
Symposium
Liverpool John Moores University
1st July 2010
Convenors
Dr Hazel Andrews, (Tourism, Consumer and Food Studies, LJMU)
Dr Kevin Meethan, Department of Sociology, University of Plymouth
Dr Les Roberts (School of Architecture, University of Liverpool)
Ideas and concepts of liminality have long shaped debates around the uses and practices of space in tourism. Victor Turner’s writings on ritual and communitas, Graburn’s theory of tourism as a sacred journey, or Shield’s discussion of ‘places on the margin’ have secured a well-established foothold in the theoretical landscapes of travel and mobility. The unique qualities of liminal landscapes, as developed by these and other writers on the subject, are generally held to be those which play host to ideas of the ludic, consumption, carnivalesque, inversion or suspension of normative social and moral structures of everyday life, deterritorialisation and ‘becoming’, and so on. While these arguments and tropes remain pertinent, and their metaphorical appeal evermore attractive, the extent to which these spaces provoke counter ideas of social control, terror, surveillance, production and territorialisation, invites an urgent call to re-evaluate the meanings attached to ideas of the ‘liminal’ in tourism studies. The deaths of 21 Chinese migrant workers in Morecambe Bay in 2004 has prompted a sobering re-assessment of the coastal resort as a site of tourism, leisure and consumption. The shifting social geographies associated with these landscapes has meant that the example of the beach may equally be looked upon as a space of transnational labour, migrancy, racial tension, death, fear, uncertainty and disorientation. In this instance, the precarious and un-navigable natural landscape of Morecambe sands becomes a metonym for the increasingly de-stabilising landscapes of trans- or post-national capitalist mobility. Moreover, the settlement of asylum seekers and refugees in UK coastal resorts such as Margate has exposed the underlying tensions and social divisions between representations that play on the ludic, touristic heritage of these resorts and those which address the marginality and exclusion that characterises the other set of mobilities and meanings evoked by these spaces. In addition, the appropriation of liminal landscapes by, for example, local authorities, commercial bodies and marketeers constructs an increasingly mediated or textualised space of performance that re-fashions the embodied (and embedded) spaces as lived by those who make up their diverse social fabric.
We invite contributions from across a broad interdisciplinary field, including scholars and practitioners working in tourism and mobility studies, anthropology, geography, film and cultural studies. We also invite multimedia submissions on the topic of liminal landscapes.
For enquiries and further details contact Dr Hazel Andrews H.J.Andrews@ljmu.ac.uk.
Please submit proposals for papers (300 words maximum) by e-mail to H.J.Andrews@ljmu.ac.uk. We also welcome proposals for panels and exhibits.
Deadline for proposals: 30 September 2009
Notification of acceptance: November 2009
Date for Registration: March 2010
Final submission deadline for full papers: 7 January 2010
Papers selected from the conference proceedings will be published in Journal of Tourism Consumption and Practice (www.tourismconsumption.org.).
Faculty of
Education, Community and Leisure
Dr Hazel Andrews PhD, MA, BSc
Senior Lecturer Tourism, Culture and Society
Centre for Tourism, Consumer and Food Studies
IM Marsh, Barkhill Road, Aigburth, Liverpool, L17 6BD
t: 0151 231 5234 e: H.J.Andrews@ljmu.ac.uk
w: www.ljmu.ac.uk
