Event overview
A lecture by Raoul Bianchi.
The abrupt disruption of international travel which resulted from the COVID19 pandemic in the spring of 2020, rekindled interest in the relationship between tourism and crisis. Notwithstanding a few scattered critiques of tourism’s growth-led trajectory and questions directed at ‘unsustainable’ tourism business models, few studies have sought to reflect upon and interrogate the deeper, systemic dynamics (to paraphrase Sassen, 2014) of tourism crises in the light of the complex, operational logics of tourism capitalism and wider socio-political and environmental limits on its future growth. In this talk I will draw on Marxian theories of international political economy and political ecology, in particular Fraser’s (2022) conception of ‘epochal crisis’, to consider tourism’s possible future trajectories in the light of multiple, intersecting crises or ‘polycrisis’ (Tooze, 2022). In this way the talk hopes to contribute to current debate geared towards how we might address or indeed transcend tourism’s current crisis-prone trajectory and contribute to sustainable, post-growth future economies.
Raoul V. Bianchi is Reader in Political Economy at Manchester Metropolitan University. His research combines ethnographic fieldwork on visitor economy development with a wider theoretical engagement with the forces shaping the international political economy of tourism and its intersection with geopolitics, border governance and mobility regimes. He has codirected major European research projects (Mediterranean Voices, 2002-2005) and participated in numerous other research projects and training programmes financed by the European Union, British Council and British Academy/Leverhulme in Spain and across the Mediterranean. He is an Associate Editor of Annals of Tourism Research, Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) and a visiting scholar in the Cultural Geography Research Group at Wageningen University and Research in the Netherlands.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 23 Nov 2023 | 5:15pm - 7:00pm |
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