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Sent: 29 April 2015 10:37
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Subject: ATLAS list Research Committee 50 Conference, April 2016, Thailand
Dear colleagues,
Its my pleasure to announce the RC50 in-between conference that will be held in Chiang Mai, Thailand, early April 2016, and the launch of the website for the conference: http://hom4309.wix.com/rc50-website-build1#!__2016-chiang-mai
For registration, conference fee, keynote speakers, please visit the website.
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
For further details of the conference, registration fee, see the direct link http://hom4309.wix.com/rc50-website-build1#!__2016-chiang-mai
During its course of nearing four decades tourism studies has covered much disciplinary, thematic and methodological ground. Whilst the field has forged significant practical and conceptual benchmarks, international tourism is said to be entering something of a 'new era', and so scholarship in tourism now stands at a philosophical and ethical crossroads. The "International Tourism" Research Committee (RC50) of the International Sociological Association thus proposes an opportunity to reengage with these salient issues in tourism studies and thereby develop possible pathways for its future. By identifying the often incongruent and paradoxical dyads in tourism studies, the conference aims to consider what is needed, conceptually and methodologically, in order to equip tourism studies to interpret this new era.
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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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 Committee Member: International Journal of Tourism Cities, http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ijtc
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