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Subject: ATLAS list REMINDER: CFP "Tourism Paradoxes", Chiang Mai 2016
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Dear Colleagues,
Please find below the Call for Papers for the upcoming conference on TOURISM PARADOXES: CHALLENGES TO SCHOLARSHIP AND PRACTICE in Chiang Mai, Thailand, April 2016 .
Abstracts of 300-350 words should be sent Shalini Singh (ssingh@brocku.ca) and Hazel Tucker (hazel.tucker@otago.ac.nz) by August 31st, 2015.
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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 31st, 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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Dr Rami K. ISAAC
Senior Lecturer in Tourism
http://nhtv.academia.edu/RamiIsaac
• Assistant Professor, Institute of Hotel Management and Tourism, Bethlehem University, Palestine, http://www.bethlehem.edu/academics/hotel/directory
• President Research Committee 50 (RC50) on International Tourism, The International Sociologist Association (ISA) (2014-2018), www.rc50.info
• Regional Editor: Middle East: Tourism Planning & Development, http://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=editorialBoard&journalCode=rthp21
• Editorial Board Member: Current Issues in Tourism, http://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=editorialBoard&journalCode=rcit20#.VSujnzj9mUk
• Editorial Review Board Member: International Journal of Tourism Cities, http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ijtc
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