Lectures Feb/March 2015
Sustainable development and global tourism 791632S
GO227 14.15-16.00
Introduction and practicalities; and Sustainability and development Thursday 19th February
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Introductions and Practicalities;
Sustainability and Development;
Course book: Mowforth and Munt (XXXX*). Tourism and sustainability: Development, globalisation and new
tourism in the Third World. Routledge, London
Conceptualising sustainable tourism I Friday 20th February
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why sustainable development and tourism are linked;
policy principles and practices: issues and challenges in policies and implementation
Saarinen, J. (2014). Critical Sustainability: Setting the Limits to Growth and Responsibility in Tourism.
Sustainability 6(11), 1–17. (OPEN ACCESS journal)
Sharpley, R. (2000). Tourism and sustainable development: exploring the theoretical divide. Journal of
Sustainable Tourism 8(1),1–19.
Conceptualising sustainable tourism II Tuesday 24th February
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cases; global tourism, local realities
how to fix the problem: beyond sustainability or back to basics? ;
Saarinen, J. (2015). Conflicting Limits to Growth in Sustainable Tourism. Current Issues in Tourism. DOI:
10.1080/13683500.2014.972344
Regina Scheyvens (2007). Exploring the Tourism-Poverty Nexus. Current Issues in Tourism 10(2-3), 231254
Conceptualising globalisation Wednesday 25th February
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shortcomings of concepts such as westernisation and overly economic perspectives;
historical cleavages and their contemporary resonance;
how sustainable forms intersect with (two-way) processes of globalisation.
Pieterse, J. N. (1994). Globalisation as hybridisation. International Sociology, 9(2), 161-184.
Bramwell, B., & Lane, B. (2014). The “critical turn” and its implications for sustainable tourism research.
Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 22(1), 1-8.
Imaginaries of development Thursday 26th
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Between ‘D’ development and ‘d’ development;
Role of GCS and IFIs
Development discourse, eurocentrism, neoliberalism etc;
Postdevelopmentalism, participatory approaches and the rise of sustainable tourism.
Lectures Feb/March 2015
Simpson, K. (2004). ‘Doing development’: The gap year, volunteer‐tourists and a popular practice of
development. Journal of International Development, 16(5), 681-692.
Amin, S., & Sridhar, V. (2003, January). For struggles, global and national. In World Social Forum.
Challenging Empires. New Delhi.
Postcolonial perspectives on ‘new’ tourism Friday 27th
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Postcolonial perspectives on old and new forms of tourism;
Insights and limits.
Sylvester, C. (1999). Development studies and postcolonial studies: disparate tales of the ‘Third World’.
Third World Quarterly, 20(4), 703-721.
Echtner, C. M., & Prasad, P. (2003). The context of third world tourism marketing. Annals of Tourism
research, 30(3), 660-682.
Wainaina, B. How to write about Africa. (short article) Available at:
http://www.granta.com/Archive/92/How-to-Write-about-Africa/Page-1
International volunteering: “giving back”? Tuesday 3rd
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Responsibility and the new tourist;
Power and responsibility;
Volunteering from a historical perspective;
Jackson, P. (2002). ‘Commercial Cultures: Transcending the Cultural and the Economic’ Progress in
Human Geography, 26:1, pp.3-18.
Griffiths, M (2014) ‘I’ve got goose bumps just talking about it!: The affective life of neoliberalized
international volunteering’, Tourist Studies. 1-17
Monbiot ‘Africa’s new friends’ (short article) available at:
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2005/jul/05/internationalaidanddevelopment.development
Hosts Wednesday 4th
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Participatory approaches to development;
Positionality, speaking to hosts;
What counts as data?
The presence of the researcher;
Research performances.
Sundberg, J. (2006). Conservation encounters: transculturation in the ‘contact zones’ of empire. cultural
geographies, 13(2), 239-265.
Griffiths, M. (2014). Transcending neoliberalism in international volunteering. In K. Dashper (Ed.).
Rural Tourism: An International Perspective. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars.
Future directions in sustainable tourism Thursday 5th
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North-north, south-south and south-north movements;
Research agendas;
Research performances;
Lectures Feb/March 2015
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An oxymoron?
McIntosh, A. J., & Bonnemann, S. M. (2006). Willing Workers on Organic Farms (WWOOF): the
alternative farm stay experience?. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 14(1), 82-99.
Thursday 19th and Friday 20th Seminars GO224 13.15-16.00