RTS Session for the AAG, Los Angeles Meeting, April 2013

Tourism As Development in Asia

According to the UN World Tourism Organization (2012), the largest growth in tourism over the coming decade is expected to take place in the Asia-Pacific region, where arrivals are forecasted to increase from 204 million in 2010 to 535 million by 2030. As one of the world’s largest industries that generates millions of jobs globally, tourism is often heralded as a means for economic development and poverty alleviation. However, its influence on host destinations and their surrounding natural environment is complex and remains a subject of contentious and continuous debate. How can tourism positively impact the livelihoods of those who need it most? Does this booming sector offer hope or hindrance for marginalized peoples in Asian countries?

This session will examine tourism as a development strategy within the context of developing and developed nations in Asia. Possible topics of interest may include, but are not limited to:

·       Urban and rural economic development

·       Local development and community empowerment

·       Sustainable tourism (including responsible, pro-poor, and alternative tourism; ecotourism)

·       Sustainable livelihoods and wellbeing

·       Protected areas and resource management

·       Political economy of tourism development

·       Backpacker tourism

·       Entrepreneurship and regional development

·       Cultural and heritage tourism

·       Cross-cultural learning and education

Enquiries are welcome. Please submit abstracts (no more than 250 words) to the session organizers no later than October 15.

Session organizers:

Heidi Karst, University of Waterloo, hkarst@...

Li Yang, Western Michigan University, li.1.yang@...

Reference:

United Nations World Tourism Organization [UNWTO] (2012). Tourism Highlights. Madrid: UNWTO.

+ + + + + + + + +

please circulate CFP pasted below.

cheers, George

--
George F Roberson, PhD
Capitol Hill - Denver, Colorado  USA
c720.878.1698

Partners for International Collaboration and Education (PICE) -- Worldwide
Collaborative Media International (CMI) -- Denver, Amherst, Tangier
Annual International Conferences -- Tangier
Geography Human Dimensions Research Group -- University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Fulbright Scholar -- Morocco
Fulbright Association -- Colorado Board of Directors

Info: http://interactive-worlds.blogspot.com/2007/04/editor.html

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RE: (ROBERSON) CFP: Performing the (Arab) public sphere | Tangier,
Morocco | June 2013

(kindly disseminate widely)

Call for Papers
Performing the (Arab) Public Sphere
9th Annual International Conference

Tangier - Tetouan, Morocco
1-2-3 June 2013

The conference aims at reframing the discussion on the public sphere
and questioning the performative articulations of political critique.
It is a continuation of our discussions in the “Performance and
Transformations” conference (2012).

The normative Habermasian model of the “public sphere” generates a
discursive arena of free flow of information and formation of public
opinion culminating at pragmatic consensus. However, the public sphere
is also an arena wherein pluralities of competing publics contest each
other. It is a “battleground” as Chantal Mouffe once put it. Some
activist performers bring into play the public sphere to call
attention to their political standpoints; they deploy the politics of
visibility to make statements in public without discussion. In this
context, “activist performance” is a “form of political action which
is located outside the political consensual realm of party politics as
it is not institutionally affiliated with parties, unions, or other
organizations…” (Pia Wiegmink, 2011: 31). Performance and theatre
function as constant players in a turbulent public sphere. For
example, the Seattle “giant puppets” march against the World Trade
Organization in 1999, the ongoing “Occupy Movements” and so-called
“Arab Spring” protests, community theatre forums, and even the
phenomenon of self-immolation in public… all share the politics of
impersonation as imitative political behaviors.

The Arab world “has long being characterized by its Orientalizers,
past and present, as not only lacking in civility but also in
public-ness and public-ity.”(Seteney Shami, 2009: 14). Is there an
“Arab Public Sphere”? Does it conform to the Habermasian model? Or
else, it is a post-Bourgeois model? Is it different from the public
sphere of the North? Or else, an exemplary instance of what Gayatri
Spivak calls the “Feudal North-in-the-South”? The aftermath of the
Arab Spring exposes conflicting “communities of interpretation” with
the rise of the Islamist tide in the region. The public articulation
of religion and particularly its relationship with the arts have
recently been subject to more thorough reflection in public debate.
Many Arabs today consider modernity a fortress to be defended against
religious extremism. Such reaction brings into play the risk of
another kind of fundamentalism, that of modernity itself –or at least,
the Arab version of modernity. “However, must we not look at a similar
impasse from the other side, too?” asks Habermas, “[i]s a learning
process only necessary on the side of religious traditionalism and not
on that of secularism, too?”

We invite scholars from around the world to join the debate and offer
elements of reflection on the various problematics related to the
following proposed panels:

- Theatre/performance studies and public sphere theories
- The role of theater and performance in the public sphere
- The Performance of protest in/and the “transnational public sphere”
- Shifting terms of public debates in post-Arab-Spring: morality,
community, and theatre
- Religion, spirituality, performance and/in the public sphere
- Religious mobilization and the “theatrical public sphere”

Arabic, English, French: simultaneous interpreting in all panel sessions

- Keynote presentations by leading practitioners and scholars
- Round tables with guest speakers from the fields of performance and academy
- Paper sessions for debate and dialogue
- Performances
- Creative installations
- Workshops
- Emerging scholars panel
- Public events
- Receptions and gala dinners
- Book launches
- Exhibitions
- Networking
- Granting opportunities
- Publication of select papers

Submission: a 250 word abstract (specific to the above issues) along
with a one paragraph curriculum vitae, should be submitted
electronically by 31 January 2013 to the scientific committee in care
of Professor Khalid Amine, Conference Convener (khamine55@...,
Tél/Fax: (212) 5393330466, Portable: 0664596791)

View/download/print full CFP:
http://collaborativemedia.blogspot.com/2012/09/cfp-performing-tangier-2013.html

Conferences hosted by the International Centre for Performance Studies
(ICPS) – Tangier
http://icpsmorocco.org/new/

ICPS conferences/publishing founded by Fulbrighters and supported by
dozens of Fulbrighters (to Morocco and to USA)
http://interactive-worlds.blogspot.com/2012/08/affliated-fulbrighters.html

ICPS / CMI publishing program, featuring "No Man's Land" and "Moroccan Arabic"
http://collaborativemedia.blogspot.com/2009/03/welcome.html
http://icpsmorocco.org/new/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&page=shop.browse&cate\
gory_id=7&Itemid=81


Information:

George F Roberson, PhD
Capitol Hill - Denver, Colorado  USA
c720.878.1698

Geography Human Dimensions Research Group -- University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Fulbright Scholar -- Morocco

george.roberson@...
http://interactive-worlds.blogspot.com/2007/04/editor.html

--
Partners for International Collaboration and Education (PICE)
George F Roberson, Chair

----- Forwarded Message -----
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2012 11:46:08 AM

Apologies for cross-posting

Call for Papers

AAG 2013

April 9-13, Los Angeles

Leisure, Tourism, and Political Ecology

During the last decade there has been something of a surge in texts broadening the scope of tourism and leisure studies through engagements with tourism and political economy (Bianchi 2009, Mosedale 2011, Williams 2004), how exertions of power permeate tourism (MacLeod & Carrier 2010, Church & Coles 2007), and so forth. While these share some common influences with influential Political Ecology texts there has to date still been very few texts striving to engage with issues concerned with tourism and leisure explicitly in relation to this nowadays rather broad field. Though leisurely consumption plays a key role in today�s capitalist economy, and given the strategic and economic value of ecological discourses together with the increasing use of the concept of sustainability, many important issues remain surprisingly under-theorized. With some notable exceptions tourist and leisure scholars have neglected the vantage points that might open up through engagements with Political Ecology. Conversely, scholars working to develop our understanding of political ecologies have during the last decade engaged with issues ranging from forestry in the global south to cutting edge research on molecular biology, but have seldom considered the roles of various leisure activities in shaping socio-ecologies worldwide.

We do not in any way think this represents a tension or unbridgeable gap. Rather we see this as an opportunity to exchange key insights from two, heuristically and loosely defined, research fields to perhaps reach a fuller understanding of the socio-ecologies of leisure and tourism. Therefore we invite theoretically and empirically informed papers which strive to scrutinize aspects of leisure, tourism and political ecology. Examples of possible topics include but are certainly not limited to the following:

�����The ways analyzes of the political ecologies of various production processes can inform our understanding of touristic experiences as commodities and vice versa.

��������� Discursive constructions of Nature, production of socio-natures, and tourism.

��������� Nature and national identity in tourism planning.

��������� (Biodiversity) conservation policy and tourism development.

�� �Land degradation, socio-ecological transformation and the production of leisure landscapes.

����The notion of hybridity in understanding various tourist practices and the political implications of shedding light on non-human nature.

If you are interested in presenting a paper in the session send an abstract of no more than 250 words to Erik J�nsson (erik.jonsson@...) and Linda Boukhris (lindaboukhris@...) no later than Friday, October 19, 2012.

This session is sponsored by the Recreation, Tourism, and Sport Specialty Group. �For additional sessions sponsored by RTS, please visit:�http://www.geog.nau.edu/rts/sessions/2013.html

Call for Papers

AAG 2013

April 9-13, Los Angeles

Re-framing Sustainable Tourism

The term sustainable tourism has been in existence since the late 1980�s and since that time, debates in the field have been challenged by varying notions of what sustainable tourism is and to what purposes does it serve. In a world that is increasingly globalized and interconnected, contentious and complex, is sustainable tourism limited to small firms located in rural environments, or does the concept have broader applicability. Technology, environmental issues and global- local interactions have changed enormously in the last 25 years thus necessitating an evaluation of the concept as an organizing tool for research and practice. As such, academics and others continue to re-define and reframe issues of sustainable tourism in interesting and innovative ways. This session proposes to highlight some of those ways in which sustainable tourism is being re-framed to include among other things:

• Its place in complex social-ecological systems
• Challenges to assumptions treated as facts
• An increasing focus on justice and governance
• The relevancy of the notion of resiliency to sustainable tourism
• The politics of sustainable tourism
• More nuanced understandings of scale and sustainable tourism
• Managing and planning sustainable tourism

We invite both empirical research and critical essays on the idea of Reframing Sustainable Tourism. Authors of abstracts chosen for this session will be asked to develop a paper for possible inclusion in a special issue of the journal Sustainability and as a chapter in an upcoming edited volume on re-framing sustainable tourism.

Please send abstracts and PINs for inclusion in the session no later than October 24^th

Keith Bosak PhD
Associate Professor of Nature-Based Tourism
Department of Society and Conservation
College of Forestry and Conservation
32 Campus Drive
University of Montana
Missoula, MT 59812
Ph: 406.243.6062
Fax: 406.243.6656

SUBJECT: Kaouti’s "No Man's Land" now available worldwide in both ebook
(instant digital delivery) and print editions

Hailed as "one of the most important plays in the Moroccan artistic repertoire
following independence.."

--Khalid Amine, Professor and President of the International Centre for
Performance Studies (ICPS) Tangier

Ready for course adoption: “Arab Sprint”, human rights, Arabic to English
translations, contemporary Moroccan literature, Arab theatre/performance

And situated as “a product of Morocco's traditional 'open space' for debate -
the theatre, No Man's Land foregrounds and predicts the “Mouvement du 20
Février”. It shrewdly highlights the seemingly irreconcilable struggles,
conflicting aspirations, and complex socio-political realities of postcolonial
Morocco. As various groups vie for power in the still-unfolding “Arab
Spring”, Kaouti’s No Man’s Land reminds us that we ought to be paying
closer attention to artists, the voices of 'insiders' and to performative
powers."

--George F Roberson, Chair, Partners for International Collaboration and
Education

Includes the forward, “No Man's Land: Voices From 'Deep Morocco'” by Khalid
Amine

Translated from Arabic by Mohamed Yassin El Harruchi

Paperback – print edition $15
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0982440944/

Ebook – Kindle edition $2.99
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00987M2UC/

Free e-reader apps for Kindle books (PC, Ipad, etc)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=sv_kstore_1?ie=UTF8&docId=1000493771

View this announcement on the web
http://collaborativemedia.blogspot.com/2012/09/nml-ebook-edition.html

Bulk orders and reprint permissions through the Publisher
http://collaborativemedia.blogspot.com/2009/03/welcome.html

The English-language print and ebook editions of “No Man’s Land” were made
possible through the generous support of the Crossroads Institute for
Interweaving Cultures (CIFIC) and in partnership with Collaborative Media
International (CMI) and International Centre for Performance Studies (ICPS)
Tangier, Morocco.

Collaborative Media International (CMI) is an all-volunteer USA-based book
publishing cooperative with all proceeds reinvested for more books and
conferences:
http://collaborativemedia.blogspot.com/2009/03/welcome.html

International Centre for Performance Studies (ICPS) Tangier is a Morocco-based
academic NGO, founded by Fulbrighter to the USA, Khalid Amine. ICPS organizes
the Annual Tangier International Conferences (8 editions complete) co-founded
with Barry Tharaud (Professor, Fulbrighter) and Andrew Hussey (Dean of the
Institute, University of London Institute in Paris):
http://icpsmorocco.org/new/

Also from Collaborative Media International (CMI):

“Moroccan Arabic: A Practical Guide to Learning Moroccan Darija - the Arabic
Dialect of Morocco
(2nd edition)” By Aaron Sakulich, Edited by Rajae Khaloufi, ISBN 9780982440933
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0982440936/

Coming soon, new francophone edition, "L'arabe Marocain"

9th Annual International Conference, Tangier - Tetouan
Call for Papers: Performing the (Arab) Public Sphere
Morocco, June 1-3, 2013

Hosted by the International Centre for Performance Studies (ICPS) – Tangier

The conference aims at reframing the discussion on the public sphere and
questioning the performative articulations of political critique. It is a
continuation of our discussions in the “Performance and
Transformations” conference (2012).

Excerpt: The Arab world “has long being characterized by its Orientalizers,
past and present, as not only lacking in civility but also in public-ness and
public-ity.”(Seteney Shami, 2009: 14). Is there an “Arab Public Sphere”?
Does it conform to the Habermasian model? Or else, it is a post-Bourgeois model?
Is it different from the public sphere of the North? Or else, an exemplary
instance of what Gayatri Spivak calls the “Feudal North-in-the-South”?

Arabic, English, French: simultaneous interpreting in all panel sessions.
Proposal deadline: 31 January 2013

View/download/print full CFP:
http://collaborativemedia.blogspot.com/2012/09/cfp-performing-tangier-2013.html

ICPS conferences/publishing founded by Fulbrighters and supported by
dozens of Fulbrighters (to Morocco and to USA)
http://interactive-worlds.blogspot.com/2012/08/affliated-fulbrighters.html

Join us!

Partners, co/granters, proposals, manuscripts, inquiries, etc., always welcomed

Information:

George F Roberson, PhD
Capitol Hill - Denver, Colorado  USA
c720.878.1698

Geography Human Dimensions Research Group -- University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Fulbright Scholar -- Morocco

george.roberson@...
http://interactive-worlds.blogspot.com/2007/04/editor.html

--
Partners for International Collaboration and Education (PICE)
George F Roberson, Chair

RTS Session for the AAG, Los Angeles Meeting, April 2013

Tourism as Development in Asia

According to the UN World Tourism Organization (2012), the largest growth in tourism over the coming decade is expected to take place in the Asia-Pacific region, where arrivals are forecasted to increase from 204 million in 2010 to 535 million by 2030. As one of the world's largest industries that generates millions of jobs globally, tourism is often heralded as a means for economic development and poverty alleviation. However, its influence on host destinations and their surrounding natural environment is complex and remains a subject of contentious and continuous debate. How can tourism positively impact the livelihoods of those who need it most? Does this booming sector offer hope or hindrance for marginalized peoples in Asian countries?

This session will examine tourism as a development strategy within the context of developing and developed nations in Asia. Possible topics of interest may include, but are not limited to:

• Urban and rural economic development
• Local development and community empowerment
• Sustainable tourism (including responsible, pro-poor, and alternative tourism; ecotourism)
• Sustainable livelihoods and wellbeing
• Protected areas and resource management
• Political economy of tourism development
• Backpacker tourism
• Entrepreneurship and regional development
• Cultural and heritage tourism
• Cross-cultural learning and education

Enquiries are welcome. Please submit abstracts (no more than 250 words) to the session organizers no later than October 15.

Session organizers:

Heidi Karst, University of Waterloo, hkarst@...
Li Yang, Western Michigan University, li.1.yang@...

Dear colleagues,
I wanted to remind you about the THREE open-rank, nine-month,
tenured/tenure-track positions (see full announcement below) in the Department
of Recreation, Sport and Tourism at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign.  We are excited about expanding our faculty and look forward
to talking with folks interested in joining our department.

Kind regards,
Carla Santos


Three Open-Rank Faculty Positions
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Department of Recreation, Sport and Tourism
College of Applied Health Sciences

Positions:  The Department of Recreation, Sport and Tourism invites applications
for three open-rank, nine-month, tenured/tenure-track positions.

Available: August 16, 2013

Description: The Department of Recreation, Sport and Tourism seeks qualified
faculty candidates with expertise in recreation, sport and tourism management.
We are particularly interested in candidates who can make linkages among
recreation, sport and tourism.  Preference will be given to applicants with an
existing line of scholarly research, teaching experience and the ability to
acquire external funding to support their research.

Qualifications: Applicants must hold an earned doctoral or terminal degree in an
affiliated field at the time of appointment.

Responsibilities: Responsibilities include conducting research in chosen area of
expertise, advising and directing student research including theses and
dissertations, instructing undergraduate and graduate courses, contributing to
the Department's curriculum, seeking external funding for research efforts,
serving on Department, College, and University committees and engaging in
professional and public service activities.

The Department: Faculty and staff of the Department of Recreation, Sport and
Tourism (RST) at the University of Illinois work to advance knowledge about the
choices that people make for their discretionary time throughout the lifespan,
including outcomes of those choices at personal, family, community, and
institutional levels. RST faculty and staff apply their expertise to enhance the
delivery of leisure services, recognizing that recreation, sport and tourism are
synergistic elements of a unique and multifaceted industry. RST appreciates the
significance of play, the contribution of arts, and the value of diversity. The
research and engagement of RST foster healthy lifestyles, environmental
stewardship, effective management and marketing of organizations, and social and
economic development of communities (see www.rst.illinois.edu for additional
information).

The Community Champaign-Urbana combines natural Midwestern beauty with cultural
resources typically found in larger metropolitan areas.  The community retains
the charm, friendliness, safety and affordability of smaller communities.  The
downtown areas provide vibrant public spaces with unique dining and
entertainment options.  The community also offers a thriving arts and culture
atmosphere as well as varsity and community sports. Outdoor enthusiasts can
enjoy 80 parks within the two communities with easy access to three major forest
preserves in Champaign County (see www.visitchampaigncounty.org for additional
information)

Salary:  Commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Closing Date: Screening of candidates will begin on October 25, 2012 and will
continue until positions are filled.  Please create your candidate profile at
http://jobs.illinois.edu and upload your cover letter, CV, and names, addresses
and phone numbers of three references.  Please include a statement of
anticipated rank in your cover letter.  All requested information must be
submitted for your application to be considered. For assistance with the
application/upload process, contact Indria Clay at (217) 333-2723 or at
iclay@....  For additional information regarding the positions, contact
Kim Shinew at (217) 333-5201 or at shinew@...

The University of Illinois is an Affirmative Action Equal Opportunity Employer.
The administration, faculty and staff embrace diversity and are committed to
attracting qualified candidates who also embrace and value diversity and
inclusivity.

Dear colleagues,

I'm sending this for and on behalf of Prof Leonardo (Don) Dioko at the Institute
for Tourism Studies. Apologies for cross-postings.

Dino





________________________________
From: Don
Sent: 31 October 2012 18:08
To: EST; THS Academic Staff
Subject: 6th Int'l Conference on Services Management, Cyprus 24-25 June 2013 and
the ICTTL Conference, Paris 14-16 February 2013

Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to announce that we are co-organizing the 6th International
Conference on Services Management, partnering with Oxford Brookes University,
Virginia Tech and IIMT of India, which will take place in Cyprus, 24-25 June
2013. The Services Management Conference is one of the leading forums for the
latest ideas and research in the services management field and attracts highly
respected and prominent scholars. We are pleased to join the consortium behind
the SM Conference and to be counted in the company of esteemed institutions
behind it. Professors Levent Altinay, Muzzafer Uysal, Anna Mattila and other
prime movers of this consortium are among the editors of prestigious journals in
the services management and tourism fields.

I would like to encourage all of you to seriously consider next year�s SM
conference in your conference agenda for 2013. I do hope you can join the
conference and submit a paper (and possibly get it published in one of the
several respectable journals supporting the conference.) Please peruse the
website located here:

http://www.jsr-iimt.in/sconf2013/index.htm

At the same time, I�d like to remind everyone also that the abstract submission
deadline for another conference which we are also co-organizing, the inaugural
ICTTL Conference in Paris (14-16 February 2013) is also coming up on 30 November
2012. Do get more info about the ICTTL Conference in Paris from here:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/International-Conference-on-Tourism-Transport-and\
-Logistics-2013/429635863738452?ref=hl.

With thanks and kindest regards,
Don


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