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3rd International Critical Tourism Studies (CTS) Conference, Zadar, Croatia, 21.-24.06.2009 |
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Written by Joachim Willms [Managing Director]
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3rd International Critical Tourism Studies (CTS) Conference
CONNECTING ACADEMIES OF HOPE: CREATIVE VISTAS AND CRITICAL VISIONS
21 - 24 June 2009, Zadar, Croatia
Following the success of the first two CTS conferences, the third
conference will be held in the beautiful and historic coastal city of
Zadar, Croatia, once again hosted by the Socio-Spatial Analysis Group
(Wageningen University, the Netherlands), the Welsh Centre for Tourism
Research (University of Wales Institute, Cardiff) and the Institute for
Tourism, Zagreb and Venevent, Zagreb.
CONFERENCE AWARD For this, our third conference, we are delighted to
announce a collaboration with The Annals of Tourism Research to
recognise excellence in doctoral research. The outstanding full paper
presented at the event by a doctoral candidate will be awarded The
Annals of Tourism Research/Carole L. Green Prize worth US$500.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Professor Adrian Franklin, University of Tasmania, Australia
Professor Peter McClaren, UCLA, USA
PRE-CONFERENCE SYMPOSIUM
There will also be an opportunity to register for a separate symposium
that will provide critical tourism researchers with the opportunity to
explore the ethical complexity of engaging in empirical research in
tourism studies, organised by Professor Scott Fleming and Dr Fiona Jordan.
The critical tourism studies conference series
Previous CTS conferences (Dubrovnik 2005 and Split 2007) have sought to
legitimise the critical school of thought developing in tourism studies
and to provide an inclusive environment for new and alternative voices
in the academy. Inspired by bell hooks’ advocacy of an academy imbued
with inclusivity, partnership and love ethics, the CTS network comprises
scholars who share a vision of producing and promoting social change in
and through tourism practice, research and education. In this context
there are many different interpretations of what it means to be
‘critical’ and many ways to challenge dominant discourses and
hegemonies. In pursuit of this ambitious agenda we invite scholars from
tourism studies and the wider social sciences to join us at our 3rd CTS
conference to learn and share experiences in their efforts to
reconceptualise educational praxis.
Conference aims:
• To reach out to critical pedagogies in tourism and the social sciences
which embrace the academy of hope ethos in order to share and cohere our
critical projects.
• To advance tourism studies as a thriving interdisciplinary field of
the social sciences.
• To explore the worldmaking power of tourism and to promote its study
as a progressive force for engagement in and analysis of the global
political and cultural economy.
• To provide a forum for research collaboration and the mentoring of
emerging tourism researchers.
Conference themes:
We welcome papers and offers to lead interactive workshops on the
following themes:
Education & the academy:
• Connecting critical pedagogies across disciplines and locations; •
Envisioning the future of tourism education and research;
• Building a new consensus in tourism studies and tourism management;
• Partnering critical hospitality studies;
• Exploring gender and leadership in academia.
Tourism in the world:
• Bridging critical scholarship with action and
activism;
• Social justice and social inequality;
• ‘Worldmaking’ and the transformation of places and cultures;
• Representation, language and culture;
• Empowerment, developing sustainable communities and creative
entrepreneurship;
• Postcolonial readings of tourism theory and practice.
Tourism and identity:
• Embodiment, performance and identities;
• Mobilities and globalisation;
• Gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, class and disability;
• Experiencing, constructing and consuming tourism spaces and places;
• Materiality, lifestyle & cultural practices;
The cultural politics of research:
• Academic renewal;
• Positionality and the emotional dynamics of research;
• Celebrating qualitative scholarship;
• Ethics and research choices;
• Negotiating the research process from proposal to publication.
All abstracts should be written in English and must be not more than 300
words in length. All full and working paper submissions will be subject
to a double-blind review and published in the refereed conference
proceedings. Following the conference, selected papers will be invited
for inclusion in the second edition of The Critical Turn in Tourism
Studies, to be published by Routledge in 2010.
Abstracts and workshop proposals should be e-mailed to Dr Irena
Ateljevic
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or Professor Nigel Morgan
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Abstracts must include: title; author(s);
affiliations; a summary of the research aims; approach and key
arguments/findings.
Style for abstract: times new roman, font 11, single
spaced and references in Harvard style.
The best full paper presented by
a doctoral student will be awarded The Annals of Tourism Research/Carole
L. Green Prize worth US$500. In their abstracts authors should indicate
their eligibility for this award.
Key dates for submission & publication opportunities Abstracts:
31st
January 2009.
Authors will be notified of acceptance on 6th February 2009.
Full papers (max 5,000 words) and working papers (max 2,000 words) for
conference proceedings: April 1st 2009.
Full and working papers should
be submitted electronically to the conference administrator, Victoria
Richards (
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11, double spaced and references in Harvard style.
Conference convenors Dr Irena Ateljevic (
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Professor Nigel Morgan (
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Professor Annette Pritchard (
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Conference details See http://www.sal.wur.nl/UK/Conferences/Zadar2009
for conference details.
For all registration and accommodation details,
please contact Slaven Reljic
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Please note the
registration deadline is May 1st. 2009.
The conference fee is 495 euro
(which includes the conference programme, all meals and entertainment).
The conference venue is Hotel KOLOVARE where delegates are entitled to a
special conference rate of single room 75 euro, double room 112 euro
(inclusive of breakfast). Hotel website: http://www.hotel-kolovare.com.
To see a recent New York Times article on Zadar, Croatia, go to:
http://www.tzzadar.hr/events.php?id=1&el_id=2752
Conference keynote speaker biographies
Adrian Franklin is Professor of Sociology in the School of Sociology &
Social Work, University of Tasmania. He is internationally renowned for
his research on the relationship between nature and society, the place
of animals in Australian global cultures, the development of ‘green’
issues and movements, environmental harm and regulation and
environmental management. Professor Franklin is editor of Tourism
Studies and author of Tourism - An Introduction (Sage 2003) and Nature
and Social Theory (Sage 2002).
Peter McLaren is Professor of Education, Graduate School of Education
and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. He is
internationally recognized as one of the leading architects of critical
pedagogy worldwide. An advocate for social justice, particularly those
in the Exploited World (misnamed the Third World) he has developed a
reputation for his uncompromising political analysis influenced by a
Marxist humanist philosophy and a unique literary style of expression.
His latest book Pedagogy and Praxis in the Age of Empire: Towards a new
humanism (Sense Publishers 2007) is co-authored with Nathalia Jaramillo.
During the last few years Peter McLaren and Nathalia Jaramillo have
given numerous lectures, workshops and seminars to students, teachers
and community activists around the world. Dr. Nathalia Jaramillo is
Professor of Education in Purdue University College of Education. She
has published widely in the area of critical pedagogy and multicultural
educa
tion.
Pre-conference symposium Researching tourism: Ethical issues and
debates, 21st. June 2009
Many of the topics addressed by critical tourism scholars raise
interesting ethical questions about issues such as researching
potentially sensitive subjects, power relations in the research process,
gender, ethnicity, (dis)ability, researching with vulnerable
populations, new technologies and tourism research, the challenges of
cross-cultural research, etc. This symposium will offer tourism
researchers the opportunity for discussion and debate about the ethics
of undertaking such research. The organisers are Dr Fiona Jordan and
Professor Scott Fleming, who have previously organised events of this
kind - one of which yielded an edited volume published by the LSA
(Fleming & Jordan, 2006). Please note that this event has a separate
registration fee and process. Please contact
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further details.
Indicative conference programme at the Hotel Kolovare
Sunday 21st June 10.00 -16.00 Optional Researching Tourism Symposium:
Ethical Issues and Debates
Sunday 21st. June 17.00 – 19.30 Conference Registration
19.30 – 21.30 Welcome Cocktail & Buffet
Monday 22nd. June 2009
8.30 – 9.30 Conference Registration
9.00-10.30 Keynote Presentation
10.00-10.30 Coffee Break
10.30-12.30 Parallel sessions and workshops
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30-15.30 Parallel sessions and workshops
15.30-16.00 Coffee
16.00-17.00 Parallel sessions and workshops
18.30 - late City tour & free night in Zadar
Tuesday 23rd June 2009
9.00-10.00 Keynote Presentation
10.00-10.30 Coffee Break
10.30-12.30 Parallel sessions and workshops
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30-15.00 Parallel sessions and workshops
15.00-15.30 Coffee
15.30-17.00 Training workshop for educators and activists led by Peter
McLaren and Nathalia Jaramillo
20.00 - late Gala dinner (with entertainment) and The Annals of Tourism
Research/Carole L. Green Prize award ceremony
Wednesday 24th. June 2009
10.00-11.00 Closing Plenary
11.30-19.00 Optional day tour to Kornati Islands National Park
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