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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Donna Chambers

Donna Chambers is Professor of Tourism at the University of Sunderland, UK. She is Research Lead for the Department of Tourism, Hospitality and Events and is also Chair of her Faculty Equality, Diversity and Social Responsibility Committee. She is a lay member of the Central University Research Ethics Committee at Oxford University, UK. Donna’s research focuses on how we represent peoples and places primarily through cultural/heritage tourism, the link between heritage and national identity, postcolonial and decolonial epistemologies, visuality in tourism, and in critical and innovative approaches to tourism research and scholarship. She has published several peer reviewed journal articles, book chapters and edited texts which reflect these research interests. She has also delivered numerous conference presentations and keynote addresses in these areas. Donna also serves as a Resource Editor for Annals of Tourism Research, is a Board member of the Leisure Studies journal and is a regular reviewer for these and other tourism journals including Tourism Management, Hospitality & Society and Tourist Studies. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG). In her personal life Donna is an active campaigner against injustice and discriminatory practices as a member of the UK Labour Party and in her formal role in the University and College Union (UCU), the largest trade union for higher and further education in the UK.

Hazel Tucker

Hazel Tucker is Associate Professor in Tourism at the University of Otago, New Zealand, and specialises in the area of tourism’s influences on socio-cultural relationships and change. Originally from the UK, Hazel conducted her PhD research (Social Anthropology, University of Durham, UK) on tourism development in Cappadocia, central Turkey. Since then, Hazel has continued to be engaged in a longitudinal ethnographic study in that region of Turkey, exploring issues concerning gender and women’s involvement in tourism work, host-guest interaction and tourism representations and identity in relation to World Heritage. Other areas of Hazel’s research and publishing include colonialism/postcolonialism, tours and tour guiding, the social dynamics of commercial hospitality, and emotional and affective dimensions of tourism. She has more recently been engaged in a project on the relationship between tourism and apocalypticism. Along with a number of published articles in refereed journals and books, Hazel is author of Living With Tourism: Negotiating Identity in a Turkish Village (Routledge 2003), and co-editor of Tourism and Postcolonialism (Routledge 2004) and Commercial Homes in Tourism (Routledge (2009). Hazel is engaged in curriculum development at the postgraduate level and teaches courses on tourist culture and research methodologies, as well as leading a Masters level ethnographic fieldschool course in northern Thailand. Along with serving on the Editorial board of several journals, Hazel is a Resource Editor for Annals of Tourism Research and Co-Vice President of the RC50 International Tourism Research Committee of the International Sociological Association.

PANEL SPEAKERS

PLENARY PANEL

TOURISM IN TRANSITION

RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF THE BALEARIC ISLANDS

An Interdisciplinary panel and debate

Taking the point of departure in the history of tourism development in the Balearic Islands, this multidisciplinary research panel will discuss a series of questions such as: What have we learnt after 50 years of tourism development? Is there a possible sustainable future for mass tourism? Which are the main gaps and challenges in tourism knowledge and research? How can we improve tourism knowledge transfer to politicians, civil society and industry? Are we providing the tourism education that our societies need?

Speakers:

Macià Blázquez. Professor, Department of Geography; UIB

Apol.lònia Martínez. Professor, Department of Private Law, UIB

Marc Morell. Dr. Politics, Work and Sustainability, Research Group, UIB

María Tugores, Professor, Department of Applied Economics.

Chairs:

Bartolomeu Deyá. Dean, Faculty of Tourism. Professor Department of Business and Economics, UIB

Catalina N. Juaneda. Professor, Department of Applied Economics, UIB

PLENARY PANEL

ETHICS, CREATIVITY AND DIVERSITY: UNDERSTANDING AND CHANGING EDITING AND PUBLISHING IN TOURISM

The landscape of publishing in academia has been radically altered during the past decade. There are several structural changes behind this transformation such as the digital revolution and the possibilities of online access, self-publishing, open access, sharing platforms etc. are key to this evolution, but these are only some of the main drivers of change. Others are the enforcement of new performance measures and policies at universities, and the metric frenzy that dominates much of academic cultures at the moment. All of this has implications in book publishing for example, with many younger academics being advised not to publish book chapters. And while there is an increased focus on the adoption of open-access policy for state funded research outcomes, the effect of journal rankings exacerbates the ‘winner takes it all’ effect that we know so well from cultural economics and other similar areas, with top journals receiving several hundreds of submissions. This massive volume raises questions about how it is possible to do a high quality job as top editor and still maintain a normal academic life, and if we are dealing with the work of others in an ethical manner when we treat their manuscripts as items in a factory line. We also believe that this evolution has major implications for creativity and knowledge production (e.g. in relation to diversity of writing genres with a total article-genre dominance as form of knowledge expression), for what we consider to be ‘good’ editorship, and for the implications that this has for the creation of new journals and publication outlets (the ranking and ‘winner takes it all’ effect creates a major barrier of entry for newcomers). And finally, we should not forget the debate about who should have the power of appointment in publication outlets which act as main gatekeepers in academic career progression, what does it mean that it is the publishers and not the academic communities who make these appointments?, how transparent are these processes? Which criteria are used? How are diversity and inclusion considered? For how long should top-editorial positions be maintained? and what are the consequences of academics being so concerned on fairness of criteria for promotion internally at universities when we do not seem to have control on the criteria for career progression in editorship?

Speakers:

Alison McInstosh, Professor, Auckland University of Technology

Kellee Caton, Associate Professor, Thompson Rivers University

David Spencer, Publisher, Elsevier

Marina Novelli, Professor, University of Brighton

Paul Lynch, Professor, Edinburgh Napier University

Sarah Williams, Production Manager/Commissioning Editor, Channel View

Sally North, Editorial Director, Goodfellow Publishers

Chair:

Jafar Jafari, Professor, University of Wisconsin- Stout

FEATURED ARTIST

CONFERENCE DISCUSSANTS

Elisa Banal Juaneda is a documentary filmmaker born and raised in Mallorca. She graduated in Social Anthropology in 2014, from the University of Barcelona, where she developed an interest in Visual Anthropology. Following that interest she enrolled in the MA on Visual Anthropology, from the University of Manchester. Still Strangers is her final Master’s project, and it explores the impact of tourism on the local community of Cala Ratjada, in the east coast of Mallorca.

"STILL STRANGERS"