{"id":921,"date":"2018-12-03T17:38:06","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T17:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/globalmobilities\/?p=921"},"modified":"2018-12-03T17:38:06","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T17:38:06","slug":"new-call-for-papers-on-the-theme-of-critical-thinking-in-tourism-studies-for-tourism-culture-and-communication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/globalmobilities\/2018\/12\/03\/new-call-for-papers-on-the-theme-of-critical-thinking-in-tourism-studies-for-tourism-culture-and-communication\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW Call for Papers on the theme of \u2018Critical Thinking in Tourism Studies\u2019 for\u00a0Tourism, Culture and Communication"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dear colleagues,<\/span><\/p>\n

We are pleased to announce a NEW Call for Papers on the theme of \u2018Critical Thinking in Tourism Studies\u2019 for\u00a0Tourism, Culture and Communication<\/span><\/a><\/i>, managed by Guest Editors\u00a0Rodanthi Tzanell<\/span><\/a>i, University of Leeds, UK and\u00a0Maximiliano Korstanje<\/span><\/a>, University of Palermo, Argentina.\u00a0This Special Issue is a COLLABORATIVE PUBLICATION between TCC and ISA (The International Sociological Association) via the latter’s Research Committee (RC50) on ‘International Tourism’\u00a0\u00a0Commissioning Editors are Keith Hollinshead (TCC) and Rukeya Suleman (RC50 \/ ISA).<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

The importance of criticality in the development of different analytical traditions in tourism studies is indisputable. Whether they focus on Marxist-inspired critiques of industrial production, in which tourism is a \u2018consciousness industry\u2019 (Enzensberger 1974), on Wallerstein\u2019s \u2018systems theory\u2019 in which an exploitative European \u2018world centre\u2019 caters for tourist demand to consume peripheral exoticism (Greenwood 1977; Britton 1989), on\u00a0\u00a0occulocentric practices organised by \u2018experts\u2019 and consumed by clients (Urry 1999, 2002; Hollinshead 2009), or on the deployment of tourism as a performative tool for collective self-aggrandizement by states and communities (MacCannell 1973; Edensor 2002), such arguments seek to promote particular modes of critical thinking.<\/p>\n

As early as the 1940s, Frankfurt School-inspired critical theory equipped tourist studies scholarship with appropriate tools to examine tourism as an economic process, a multi-industry and a social fact (von Wiese 1930; Bornmann 1931). Indeed tourism\u2019s contribution to an essential division of human activities between work and leisure in Western and European societies (Krippendorf 1986) — which coincided with the institution of paid holidays as a universal right (1940) — fed into such arguments, so the critical turn became entangled in globalised\/Europeanised institutional changes, inducing new objections to treating tourism as a universal value. From the late 1990s-2000s, a \u2018new mobilities paradigm\u2019 (with its \u2018critical mobilities\u2019 branch (S\u00f6derstr\u00f6m et al. 2013)) breathed new life into these debates by employing new methodological and epistemological tools from Complex Adaptive Systems and Actor-Network Theory, in which \u2018systems\u2019 comprise more or other-than-human actants that propel different types of human performance in tourism (Sheller and Urry 2004; Hannam et al. 2006).<\/p>\n

Regardless of their differences, all these arguments and schools share an interest in the promotion of critical thinking. This Special Issue seeks to bring to academic discourse what \u2018critical thinking\u2019\u00a0truly is<\/i>\u00a0as an epistemic mode favouring systems, or a form of structural and\/or agential meaning-making performed by host communities, tourists, tourist design industries and scholars in tourist studies and other cognate fields.<\/p>\n

Topics:<\/b><\/p>\n

Some\u00a0indicative but not exhaustive themes\u00a0<\/i>for possible papers are:<\/p>\n