Emerging  Conference Themes

The CTS-AP conference encourages paper and panel submissions on ANY thematic, theoretical, or methodological topic that engages with critical tourism scholarship. 
Theme 1: Responsibility
Inspired by Donna Haraway’s (2016) concept of “response-ability”, this theme examines the cultivation of the capacity to collectively and affectively respond to the changing world with/through/against tourism. How might tourism engage with this concept of responsibility and/or response-ability? What role can tourism play in cultivating a capacity to respond in increasingly troubled times? Themes may include:
  • ​Ethics and Responsibility
  • Moral tourism encounters
  • Diversity and Equity
  • Community and Environment
  • Intergenerational equity
  • Tourism and SDGs
  • Gender and tourism
  • Animal ethics
  • Ethics of care (transformative potentialities of love, kindness, patience)
  • Climate change
  • The Anthropocene
  • Degrowth
  • Volunteer tourism
  • Activism and policy
  • Indigenous methodologies
  • Embodiment and affect 
Theme 2: Resistance
When the tourism industry goes awry how do/can individuals, communities and collectives resist power in the face of such a powerful global industry? The theme also examines the ways tourism can itself be an act of resistance. Topics may include:
  • Political ecology
  • Tourism politics
  • Decolonization
  • Postcolonial tourism studies
  • Small acts of resistance
  • Tourism & (intercultural, non-human, ecological) communication
  • Social justice
  • Tourism labour
  • Transnational networks
  • Creative resistance
  • Overtourism
  • Queering tourism scholarship
Theme 3: Resurgence
Resurgence explores the potential role of tourism in rebuilding meaningful lives, communities, and human and non-human relations in the midst of disaster and ruin.
Themes may include:
  • Tourism and environmental justice
  • Multispecies assemblages in tourism
  • Indigenous rights
  • Indigenous ways of knowing
  • Rural revitalization
  • Sustainability and tourism
  • Toxic tourism and polluted leisure
  • Tourism and risk
  • Resilience
  • Post-disaster tourism
  • Tourism in marine ecologies