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- Title:
- Professor
- Teacher Group:
- Culture and Tourism
Classes
Tourism and Culture
Class Content
mobility / mixture / performance
Just as J. Urry says that "being a tourist is one of the defining characteristics of being ‘modern’”, it no less than ordinary custom in our society to move around space and practice tourism. Even if we would not move, we are necessarily and unavoidably to be entrapped in a social quicksand of tourism because mobility in general society is heightened in a syndromatic fashion. I would like to give some considerations with students from the viewpoints such as the theory of material, physical and experiential authentication and the performance theory towards: how and who we mix with as socio-cultural existence; what environment and relationship we create and construct; how we behave there under the social situations stated above.
Brief Outline of History & Achievements
MA in English Literature from Hokkaido University and MA in British Cultural Studies from Warwick University. Currently interested in Socio-cultural tourism studies and British studies. Main academic achievements include: “Leisure and festivity: Popularised leisure activities and social control in modern English society” in Advanced Tourism Studies, 6 (2009); “To be unbounded from the spell of image-making: Landscape beyond the tourist gaze in Biei” in CATS Library, 11 (2017).
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Academic Society Affiliations
Japan Society for Tourism Studies
knishi@imc.hokudai.ac.jp
Research Areas
Socio-cultural studies in tourism and modern British studies