Carina Ren
As a researcher and university teacher, I am interested in how tourism links to other fields of the social through cultural innovation. Using ethnographic and design methods, I explore connections between tourism, business and city development through branding and event initiatives and strategies within theses field. This is often - and preferably - done in research collaboration with relevant stakeholders and users such as industry, government, citizens and students.
In my research, I look at how innovative and often collaborative set-ups (public-private, volunteering, digital) interferes with how tourism is organised, developed and valued. I explore Smart Tourism initiatives and mega-events such as the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 and Arctic Winter Games 2016 as innovative collaboration platforms. In the recent past, I have engaged in my research with user-centered Green City Tourism development in Copenhagen, the materialities of branding at the Danish 'Welfairytale' pavilion at the World Expo in Shanghai 2010 and the 'Possible Greenland' exhibition at the Venice Biennale 2012 as a 'futuring device'.
In my research, I look at how innovative and often collaborative set-ups (public-private, volunteering, digital) interferes with how tourism is organised, developed and valued. I explore Smart Tourism initiatives and mega-events such as the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 and Arctic Winter Games 2016 as innovative collaboration platforms. In the recent past, I have engaged in my research with user-centered Green City Tourism development in Copenhagen, the materialities of branding at the Danish 'Welfairytale' pavilion at the World Expo in Shanghai 2010 and the 'Possible Greenland' exhibition at the Venice Biennale 2012 as a 'futuring device'.
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This is the first book to critically engage with the use of ANT in tourism studies. By doing so, it challenges approaches that have dominated the literature for the last twenty years and casts new light on issues of materiality, ordering and networks in tourism. The book describes the approach, its possibilities and limitations as an ontology and research methodology, and advances its use and research in the field of tourism.
The first three chapters of the book introduce ANT and its key conceptual premises, the book itself and the relation between ANT and tourism studies. Using illustrative cases and examples, the subsequent chapters deal with specific subject areas like materiality, risk, mobilities and ordering and show how ANT contributes to tourism studies. This part presents examples and cases which illustrate the use of the approach in a critical way. Inherently, the study of tourism is a multi-disciplinary field of research and that is reflected in the diverse academic backgrounds of the contributing authors to provide a broad post-disciplinary context of ANT in tourism studies.
This unique book, focusing on emerging approaches in tourism research, will be of value to students, researchers and academics in tourism as well as the wider Social Sciences.
Papers by Carina Ren