International Critical Tourism Studies Conference V

Tourism Critical Practice: Activating Dreams into Action

When?

Tuesday 25 June 2013 to Friday 28 June 2013

Open to:

Staff, Students, Public

Conference aims

Over the past four conferences, CTS 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 so far 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. The fifth conference in the series focuses on (if there is indeed a more accepting attitude developing in tourism towards critical studies) whether and how the ‘production and promotion of social change’ can be facilitated and achieved. In this context we invite scholars from tourism studies and the wider social sciences to explore the potential of critical practice and activism in academia, and the role of the academic community in achieving social change. We welcome papers and offers to lead interactive workshops on the following themes:

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

Critical tourism research practices

• Innovative and critical research methods
• Positionality and the emotional dynamics of research
• Academic freedom

Critical scholarship in action

• The relationship between academia and activism
• Impacts of and empowerment through critical research
• Public evaluation and dissemination of critical research