Tourism Analysis Special Issue:

CRITICAL TOURISM STUDIES:

The Road Less Travelled

[Guest Editors: Dr. Senija Causevic, Dr. Lynn Minnaert, Professor Nigel Morgan and Professor Annette Pritchard]

 

Over the past 10 years, Critical Tourism Studies has profiled itself as a network of scholars who share a vision of producing and promoting social change in and through tourism practice, research and education. It has done this by seeking to legitimise the critical school of thought in tourism studies and by providing an inclusive environment for new and alternative voices in the academy.

This Special Issue aims to encourage and advance critical tourism research, be it theoretical, conceptual or empirical.  The emphasis is upon critically examining tourism and the way it is implemented, researched and taught – critiquing widely held assumptions that inhibit a fuller and more balanced understanding of these issues.  The objective is to showcase original and innovative international research that applies a critical perspective to theoretical, conceptual and methodological inquiries of tourism.

 

Topics:

 Critical tourism research practices

• The position of critical tourism studies over the past decade
• Innovative and critical research methods
• Positionality and the emotional dynamics of research
• Academic freedom
• Academic integrity

Critical action in the classroom

• Critical pedagogies in tourism, hospitality and events education
• Envisioning the future of tourism, hospitality and events education
• Fostering critical and socially active attitudes in students

Tourism and its potential as a social force

• Social justice, exclusion and social inequality
• ‘Worldmaking’ and the transformation of places and cultures
• Empowerment, developing sustainable communities and creative / social entrepreneurship
• Postcolonial readings of tourism
• Tourism and its relation to gender, class, race, sexuality, ethnicity and disability

 

 Important dates:

Abstracts of 500 words are required no later than 1^st February 2015.  Please submit your abstract to Dr Lynn Minnaert: l.minnaert@nyu.edu

Selected papers will be chosen by April 15^th 2015

First draft of papers to be submitted before September 1^st 2015

Abstracts will be required to fully reflect one or several of the themes indicated in this call.  Contributors to the Special Edition will be expected to ensure that the initial and final drafts of their manuscript demonstrably and coherently hit the identified critical theme.  Published papers in the special issue will not be longer than 7,000 words, inclusive of exhibits (tables / figures) and references.