06 November
Local Date: Nov 06 2024 |
Local Time: 8:30 am - 10:00 am
Freya Higgins-Desbiolles is Adjunct Associate Professor with Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies, University of Waterloo, Visiting Professor Centre for Research and Innovation in Tourism, Taylor’s University of Malaysia and Adjunct with the Business Unit, University of South Australia. She has worked with industry, community and non-profits on projects that have worked at the cutting edge of just and sustainable tourism. She is the co-editor of the recent books Socialising Tourism: Rethinking Tourism for Social and Ecological Justice (2022) and The Local Turn in Tourism: Empowering Communities (2023). |
Bobbie Chew Bigby is an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and a native of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Bobbie is based primarily in Oklahoma where she has completed and is awaiting PhD examination results for her dissertation completed through the University of Notre Dame Australia, Nulungu Research Institute. This doctoral project focused on comparative Indigenous tourism, culture and resurgence. Bobbie is soon due to commence a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Waterloo (Canada) to expand upon these themes of Indigenous-led tourism and resurgence, particularly relating to Indigenous-led toxic tourism and Indigenous interpretations of animals and the living world through tourism. Her past research fellowships, including a Fulbright award and Rotary Peace Fellowship, have taken her to Indigenous Australia, Burma, Cambodia, China and India for research and community-based work. Bobbie is a recent co-edited/co-author of the edited volumes, Socialising Tourism: Rethinking Tourism for Social and Ecological Justice (Routledge, 2022) and A Local Turn in Tourism: Empowering Communities (Channel View, 2023). |
Can-Seng Ooi is a student of sociology and anthropology. He is Professor of Cultural and Heritage Tourism at the School of Social Sciences, University of Tasmania. A large chunk of his research focuses on community and tourism issues, addressing matters such as the moral limits of the tourism market, the distribution of benefits and costs in tourism and touristification. Australia, Antarctica, Denmark, Singapore, China and Malaysia are places where he has conducted research. He publishes extensively and engages keenly with the critical tourism studies community. More information on him is available at www.cansengooi.com. |
Dr Phoebe Everingham has PhD in Human Geography from the University of Newcastle. She is a lecturer in Environment and Society, department of Geography and Planning at Macquarie University Sydney, Australia and associate lecturer in the Faculty of Hospitality and Tourism Management Sarawak campus at USCI Malaysia. She takes a critical perspective to neoliberal capitalist models of tourism development, instead foregrounding the importance of community and environmental well-being, diverse economies perspectives and Southern/Indigenous worldviews. Working with multidisciplinary insights from Human Geography, Sociology and Anthropology she is deeply interested in embodied intercultural encounters within tourism spaces and the possibilities for emotions and affect to unsettle neo-colonial power dynamics. She is an internationally acclaimed scholar with an extensive publication record and sits on the editorial board of Tourism Geographies, Annals of tourism, Tourist Studies and Journal of Responsible Tourism. |
Dr Antonia Canosa is a Research Fellow with the Centre for Children and Young People, Southern Cross University, Australia. Antonia’s work focuses on children’s rights, wellbeing and safety in the tourism industry. Her research builds synergies between the interdisciplinary fields of childhood studies and tourism studies to advance knowledge informed by children and young people in the diverse tourism contexts of our increasingly globalised world. Her work is grounded in social justice and critical pedagogy with an emphasis on participatory, ethnographic, and visual methodologies to empower children and young people to contribute to research, policy, and practice. She has worked across a number of areas, including children's rights in the tourism industry; identity and belonging in childhood; youth activism for sustainable tourism; and ethical research involving children. Antonia's research has been published widely in highly ranked international journals and presented at national and international conferences. |
Jim Macbeth, PhD, Emeritus A/Professor, Murdoch University As a Foundation staff member at Murdoch, I was attracted to the sense of the new university carving out its own niche, something different from UWA (which I left for Murdoch). Sociology, environmental science and sustainability all came together for me and later informed my design of the new tourism course established in 1996. I completed my (paid) time at Murdoch as Dean of the School of Social Sciences and Humanities and retired to go offshore sailing, which I did and still do. But, I also stay connected through research and as a member of the TRINET International Advisory Board while reviewing for academic journals and doing the odd publication. |
Freya Higgins-Desbiolles Moderator | |
Bobbie Chew Bigby Panelist | |
Can-Seng Ooi Panelist | |
Phoebe Everingham Panelist | |
Antonia Canosa Panelist | |
Jim Macbeth Discussant | |