Sessions in which Bryan Grimwood participates
Friday 4 August, 2023
In this presentation, we examine the world-making possibilities of posthuman affirmative ethics for more-than-human tourism research. Specifically, we consider the politics mobilized by concepts like sentience and agency in posthuman tourism research, and the relative capacities of each to facilitate an affirming openness towards entangled more-than-human tourism relations. Contextualized by the urgency of ...
Saturday 5 August, 2023
Tourism development is underpinned by a euro-centric philosophy manifested in western socio-economic values and systems that impose control over countries, and people (Escobar, 1998). As critical tourism scholars widely recognize, development discourses can work as a powerful, capitalist tool in the acquisition and commodification of land and cultures necessary for the growth and sustainability of the touri...