I am keen on learning how tourism is entangled in World(s) making and unmaking processes, particularly its role in unveiling and perhaps countervailing the power relations within the bastions of the capitalist superstructure, where Marx and Engels’ (1919) prognosis, “exploitation of the many by the few” (p. 29) has become a dreadful neoliberal symbiosis. If given the opportunity, I am interested in dialogue...

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 ...

Cette communication vise à analyser le processus de la résistance paysanne contre le mégaprojet touristique Destination Ile-à-Vache (Haïti). Cette analyse se base sur une enquête empirique réalisée entre décembre 2019 et janvier 2020 à Ile-à-Vache. Les résultats de cette recherche qualitative nous permettent d’avancer que le mouvement de résistance paysanne résulte d’un processus de construction impliquant ...

Climate change tends to be framed in long timescales by institutional actors. However, some territories are already facing the effects of climate change, particularly in island environments. As tourism plays an important role in these spaces, it is important to understand how humans and their tourism organizations are dealing with the effects of climate change (Scott & Gössling, 2022). To study the resp...

In recent years, I have been an active member of two distinct scholarly fields of study: Critical Tourism Studies and Critical Refugee Studies. I have consistently noted remarkable overlaps in the two fields. For example, as critical projects, the fields of Critical Tourism Studies and Critical Refugee Studies share the fundamental objectives of examining border controls and how governmental power normalize...

This presentation considers how affects animate and uphold tourism and settler colonialism. Engaging a “curious” postdisciplinary research methodology informed by the relational power of listening, I trace the emergence of two interrelated atmospheres in the city of Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, both of which exemplify how settler colonialism is built and maintained as a structure of feeling (Robinson, 20...

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...

Tourism literature has highlighted the growth in tourism education as an important area in institutions of higher learning since the 1980s (Fidgeon, 2010; Liburd, Hjalager, & Christensen, 2011; Sheldon, Fesenmaier, & Tribe, 2011). This phenomenon is attributed to the growth in the global tourism industry, and the consequent need to develop a pedagogical understanding of tourism and hospitality studi...

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 In this workshop we will con...