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Sent: 14 July 2015 12:14
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Subject: ATLAS list TOURISM PARADOXES: CHALLENGES TO SCHOLARSHIP AND PRACTICE
Dear colleagues,
CALL FOR PAPERS
“Tourism Paradoxes: Challenges to scholarship and practice” . For more information on registration, and conference fee, please visit the website http://hom4309.wix.com/rc50-website-build1#!__2016-chiang-mai
Abstracts of 300-350 words should be sent to Shalini Singh (ssingh@brocku.ca) and Hazel Tucker (hazel.tucker@otago.ac.nz) by August 15th, 2015.
THEME: TOURISM PARADOXES: CHALLENGES TO SCHOLARSHIP AND PRACTICE
LOCATION: Chiang Mai, Thailand
DATES: 6-9 April 2016
****Keynote Speakers****
Professor Erik Cohen
Professor Vincent Platenkamp
Dr. Ana Maria Munar
We invite papers which engage a social / cultural studies approach to tourism in the following subfields:
Dyads identified (but not limited to):
(i) Colonization ---- Post-colonization & De-colonization
(ii) Political Prowess ---- Peoples’ Empowerment
(iii) Production ---- Consumption (Continuum )
(iv) Symbolism ---- Signification Dynamics
(v) Formal Sector ---- Informal Economies (incl. Entrepreneurs)
(vi) Assimilation ---- Diversity
(vii) Globally Standardized ---- Locally Stylized
(viii) Singular ---- Multiple Identities (Ethnic, National, Trans)
(ix) Borders ---- (De)Militarized Zones
(x) Anglo-Western Centrism ---- Decentering tourism studies
Methodology Matters:
(i) Modes of Knowledge: ontological and epistemological pluralism
(ii) Key turns of social science (constituents, rejections, advances)
(iii) Realist/neo-positivist approaches and methods
(iv) Soft science/Interpretive approaches and methods
(v) Discourse ---- Praxis
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
Abstracts of 300-350 words should be sent to Shalini Singh (ssingh@brocku.ca) and/or Hazel Tucker (hazel.tucker@otago.ac.nz) by August 15th, 2015.
When submitting your abstract please indicate which area of the conference theme / dyad(s) your paper addresses.
Abstracts for papers that extend beyond these sub-thematic areas but which relate to the theme of Tourism Paradoxes: Challenges to Scholarship & Practice will also be considered.
Notifications of acceptance will be sent by October 15th, 2015. Registration opens November 1st, 2015
The International Sociological Association’s Research Committee on International Tourism RC50 aims to encourage the international dissemination and exchange of information on significant developments in tourism social studies.
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