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Turism och utveckling: kritiska perspektiv

Abstract

Under de senaste decennierna har det turistiska fältet i allt högre grad kommit att erkännas som ett ytterst komplext forskningsfält som ger upphov till frågor som är både lokala och globala, och som kan handla om såväl människors drömmar och självförståelse, som om mänskliga rättigheter, global ekonomi och internationella politiska relationer. Trots det saknas fortfarande läromedel där samtida turism och resande belyses ur ett kritiskt perspektiv, där frågor om global över- och underordning står i fokus. Syftet med detta projektet har därför varit att framställa läromedel där internationell turism och resande konfronteras med nya, kritiska, teoretiska perspektiv.


Keywords:

Colonial/postcolonial, Globalization, Transnational, Development

Description

Tourism and travel are phenomena which for long were considered too trivial to deserve any attention at all from the academic community. Many still look at tourism and travel only from the tourist's perspective, and then associate these phenomena primarily with allegedly banal things such as fun and relaxation. In recent decades, however, the academic interest in the field of tourism increased significantly. Researchers in a wide range of academic disciplines have been engaged in trying to understand, explain and problematize issues of tourism, travel an mobility. The tourist area has increasingly come to be recognized as a highly complex field of research that raises questions that are both local and global, questions that concern people's dreams and self-understanding, as well as human rights, labor conditions, global economy and international political relations. The growing interest in tourism and travel has meant that the supply of scholarly literature with a focus on tourism has grown considerably. Several international publishers have now special series of tourism literature, and among the range of international scientific journals, we now find a number of journals that publish only on tourism and travel. In addition, an increasing number of universities in Sweden and other countries courses as well as continuous training of tourism focus.
Although the academic interest in tourism-related issues has increased, it may be difficult to find introductory, theoretically-oriented literature on tourism. This is especially true if you are looking for Swedish literature. The Swedish tourism research has many merits, but in many cases have been more empirical andto their nature.
The purpose of this project has been to produce text books in Swedish, where contemporarty international tourism and travel are confronted with new, critical, theoretical perspective.

Publications

Slavnic, Z. (2013), ?Working in the ?Bleak House? ? an autoethnographic study of ethnic segmentation, precarization and informalization in the London hotel industry?, Hospitality & Society 3: 1, pp. 7?24, doi: 10.1386/hosp.3.1.7_1
Slavnic, Z. (2011). Arbetsvilkor. Perspektiv på turism och resande: Begrepp för en kritisk turismanalys. J. Syssner. Lund, Studentlitteratur.
Syssner, J (red.) (2011, in press) Perspektiv på turism och resande: Begrepp för en kritisk turismanalys, Lund: Studentlitteratur.
Syssner, J. (2010) Platser, människor, visioner - om Vimmerby som kommun och besöksmål, i Johnsson, Leif (red.) Samhällsutveckling och Kulturarv i Vimmerby kommun, Lund: Nordic Academic Press.
Syssner, J. och Khayati, K. (2010) Veni, Vidi, Adios, in Tesfahuney, M. and Shough, K. (red.). Det Globala Privilegiet. Sekel Förlag.


2010 - 2011

Funding

FAS/FORTE Research environment funding

REMESO Project Leader

Josefina Syssner, Research fellow

Participants from REMESO

Anna Bredström
Caroline Tovatt
Catarina Lundqvist
Khalid Khayati
Magnus Dahlstedt
Mekonnen Tesfahuney
Sabine Gruber
Stefan Jonsson
Tünde Puskas
Zoran Slavnic

Participants not from REMESO

  • Janicke Andersson (PhD), Linköping University.
  • Mats Brusman (PhD), Linköping University.
  • Svante Beckman (Prof.), Linköping University.

Contact for project

josefina.syssner@liu.se


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