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0000-0001-6424-0749
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University of South Australia
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Publisher: Routledge
Date: 16-07-2022
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 14-07-2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 1991
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 22-07-2014
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 11-01-2017
DOI: 10.1002/JRS.5088
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 08-01-2016
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2021
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 28-05-2022
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 08-2015
Publisher: Inderscience Publishers
Date: 2018
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 16-07-2022
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2012
Publisher: Intellect
Date: 06-2014
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 28-04-2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2014
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 31-10-2018
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 22-11-2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 29-05-2019
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2013
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2021
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 27-01-2017
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 2019
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2013
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 16-07-2022
Publisher: Cognizant, LLC
Date: 04-2018
DOI: 10.3727/108354218X15210313504544
Abstract: A climate of neoliberalism challenges the work of scholars whose research focuses on societal well-being through embedded community research and critical analysis of public policy, planning, and industry practices, what we call academic activism. This article draws on the autoethnographic insights and critical narratives of four tourism scholars to describe and analyze in a systematic manner the experiences of these researchers each engaged in what they consider to be academic activism. Our aim is to bring into focus and raise as matters of concern the future of tourism research in the neoliberal university and the need for greater critical and reflexive engagement by researchers in their positionality and agency. Although the contexts in which we work and our experiences differ greatly, the article identifies common themes, challenges, and opportunities within our approaches to research and action. Four emergent themes arose through the narrative analysis that helped to structure insights and findings: experiential journeys that shaped our current academic positionality and philosophical approaches to research and practice a preference for embedded situated methodologies a reflexive understanding of our political positioning and a critical situated approach to understanding the external influences upon our research and strivings to contribute to the public good. The article raises challenging questions on the meaning of tourism research and the "public good" in the neoliberal university, and what being an academic activist entails in this context.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 04-04-2014
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2022
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 28-08-2022
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2009
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2019
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Date: 31-12-2023
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2020
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 14-08-2006
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 25-05-2020
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2018
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-12-2020
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2021
Publisher: OpenEdition
Date: 21-08-2018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2021
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2014
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 02-01-2020
Abstract: This paper aims to consider growing calls for ersity and inclusion in tourism scholarship, practices and operations. It briefly overviews evolution in the thinking on ersity in tourism and considers issues arising for the future. Drawing on theories of intersectionality and decolonial thinking, this paper offers a review of the evolution of thinking on ersity in tourism. Diversity is essential to the future of tourism to build more just, equitable and sustainable futures. The tourism academy and the tourism industry must engage in all forms of ersity to respond to a rapidly changing world. Engagement with ersity also allows for innovative and creative thinking that will be essential for a just and sustainable future. This paper addresses an under-studied development in tourism: transitions to ersity. It reviews concepts emerging in tourism scholarship, including intersectionality and decolonial thinking. These are essential tools for understanding ersity in tourism and developing just and sustainable futures.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2022
Publisher: eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd
Date: 02-04-2019
DOI: 10.7554/ELIFE.43481
Abstract: For countries aiming for malaria elimination, travel of infected in iduals between endemic areas undermines local interventions. Quantifying parasite importation has therefore become a priority for national control programs. We analyzed epidemiological surveillance data, travel surveys, parasite genetic data, and anonymized mobile phone data to measure the spatial spread of malaria parasites in southeast Bangladesh. We developed a genetic mixing index to estimate the likelihood of s les being local or imported from parasite genetic data and inferred the direction and intensity of parasite flow between locations using an epidemiological model integrating the travel survey and mobile phone calling data. Our approach indicates that, contrary to dogma, frequent mixing occurs in low transmission regions in the southwest, and elimination will require interventions in addition to reducing imported infections from forested regions. Unlike risk maps generated from clinical case counts alone, therefore, our approach distinguishes areas of frequent importation as well as high transmission.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 20-02-2022
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 16-07-2022
Abstract: This article considers the possibilities of and barriers to socialising tourism after the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Such an approach allows us to transform tourism and thereby evolve it to be of wider benefit and less damaging to societies and ecologies than has been the case under the corporatised model of tourism. This conceptual analysis draws on the theorisation of “tourism as a social force” and the new concept of “socialising tourism”. Using critical tourism approaches, it seeks to identify the dynamics that are evident in order to assess the possibilities for socialising tourism for social and ecological justice. It employs an Indigenous perspective that the past, present and future are interconnected in its consideration of tourism futures. COVID-19 has fundamentally disrupted tourism, travel and affiliated industries. In dealing with the crisis, borders have been shut, lockdowns imposed and international tourism curtailed. The pandemic foregrounded the renewal of social bonds and social capacities as governments acted to prevent economic and social devastation. This disruption of normality has inspired some to envision radical transformations in tourism to address the injustices and unsustainability of tourism. Others remain sceptical of the likelihood of transformation. Indeed, phenomena such as vaccine privilege and vaccine tourism are indicators that transformations must be enabled. The authors look to New Zealand ex les as hopeful indications of the ways in which tourism might be transformed for social and ecological justice. This conceptualisation could guide the industry to better stakeholder relations and sustainability. Socialising tourism offers a fruitful pathway to rethinking tourism through a reorientation of the social relations it fosters and thereby transforming its social impacts for the better. This work engages with the novel concept of “socialising tourism”. In connecting this new theory to the older theory of “tourism as a social force”, this paper considers how COVID-19 has offered a possible transformative moment to enable more just and sustainable tourism futures.
Publisher: Cognizant, LLC
Date: 2023
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 02-08-2013
DOI: 10.1108/IJCTHR-05-2012-0038
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to examine the omission of Indigenous narratives in battlefields and sites of conflicts while also highlighting how certain battlefields and sites of conflicts have attempted to address dissonant heritage by ersifying interpretation strategies and implementing elements of collaborative management approaches, thereby addressing Indigenous erasure. The study uses a content analysis, field studies and case studies to examine dissonant heritage in warfare tourism sites involving Indigenous peoples in Australia and North America. The content analysis reveals that aboriginal erasure is still prevalent within the literature on warfare and battlefield tourism. However, the case studies suggest that dissonant heritage in warfare tourism is being addressed through collaborative management strategies and culturally sensitive interpretation strategies. The content analysis is limited to tourism journals. The case studies highlight sites that are using adaptive management and integrating Indigenous peoples. The study of dissonant heritage and warfare tourism, while relatively young, is beginning to address aboriginal erasure and cultural dissonance this study is a contribution to this area of research. Addressing the impacts of aboriginal erasure and heritage dissonance in colonial settings heals the hurts of the past, while empowering communities. It also provides Indigenous communities with opportunities to ersify current tourism products. This is a collaborative international paper involving Indigenous and non‐Indigenous scholars from Australia, Canada, and the USA.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 04-2010
DOI: 10.1057/THR.2009.31
Abstract: Sustainable tourism is perhaps the most prominent feature of contemporary tourism discourse. However, despite its prominence for several decades, achieving sustainability remains as elusive as ever. This article explores the concept of the culture-ideology of consumerism developed by sociologist Leslie Sklair (2002) in order to ascertain the implications it holds for understanding how to secure meaningful sustainable tourism. Demonstrating that the current system of neoliberalism and its attendant culture-ideology of consumerism are inherently unsustainable, this article argues we must consciously move away from this value system to one less damaging.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-08-2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-08-2022
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 27-04-2018
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 30-07-2014
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-2016
Publisher: Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
Date: 02-2023
Abstract: Every convex homogeneous polynomial (or form) is nonnegative. Blekherman has shown that there exist convex forms that are not sums of squares via a nonconstructive argument. We provide an explicit ex le of a convex form of degree 4 in 272 variables that is not a sum of squares. The form is related to the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality over the octonions. The proof uses symmetry reduction together with the fact (due to Blekherman) that forms of even degree that are near-constant on the unit sphere are convex. Using this same connection, we obtain improved bounds on the approximation quality achieved by the basic sum-of-squares relaxation for optimizing quaternary quartic forms on the sphere. Funding: This work was supported by the Australian Research Council [Grant DE210101056].
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2018
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-2013
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2006
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2009
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-06-2023
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2012
DOI: 10.1017/JHT.2012.7
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 23-04-2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-2011
Publisher: Channel View Publications
Date: 30-11-2022
DOI: 10.21832/HIGGIN8793
Abstract: This book considers the vital importance of local communities to just and sustainable tourism futures. The contributors examine how tourism can be reoriented to better connect people, place and planet. This local turn starts by centring local communities at the heart of tourism and identifies ways to ensure local community rights and benefits.
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 17-04-2018
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-07-2014
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 22-04-2019
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 14-12-2015
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2016
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Date: 31-12-2023
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2021
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Date: 31-12-2023
No related grants have been discovered for Freya Higgins-Desbiolles.