FW: ATLAS list Ethical Tourism, Care and Global Citizenship

 

 

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Tourism Geography session at the American Association of Geographers (AAG) conference in Chicago, April 21-25, 2015. See http://www.aag.org/

 

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Title:	Ethical Tourism, Care and Global Citizenship
Description:	Civic republican citizenship assumes a distinctly political relationship between  citizen and nation state. More recent discussions of citizenship - notably global and cosmopolitan citizenship  - look beyond the state to the globe, and often beyond traditional notions of politics to lifestyle and consumption. In this vein non-governmental organisations and commercial tour operators propose that their volunteer tourism trips promote global citizenship, and governments have linked ethical gap year projects  to this agenda. To buy an ethical holiday has been theorised as an attempt to care for distant others in the course of one's leisure life. It has been linked to civic and even political action, and is a focus for the laudable impulse to "make a difference".  Also the advocacy of global citizenship via travel often carries its own pedagogic assumptions, premised upon the value of learning through experience ("being there") as opposed to formal education (being "book smart"). We seek critical analyses of ethical tourism, focusing on its relationship to citizenship and to care. Papers that broach this from a variety of perspectives welcome. Organisers: Jim Butcher, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK  / Heather Hindman, University of Texas, Austin  / Cori Jakubiak, Grinnell College, Iowa  / Peter Smith, St Mary's University, UK Please send abstract plus your pin number from your AAG registration to jim.butcher@canterbury.ac.uk in the first instance.
Sponsorships:	AAG Recreation, Tourism, and Sport Specialty Group

 

 

 

 

Dr Jim Butcher

School of Social and Applied Sciences

Canterbury Christ Church University
North Holmes Road
Canterbury
Kent
CT1 1QU

 

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