Journeys from the east: the popular geopolitics of film motivated Chinese tourism

Over the past five years the number of outbound travellers from the People's Republic of China (PRC) doubled, making Chinese tourists the largest group of international travellers in the world. Drawing on media reports of the impact of box office hits on Chinese outbound tourism, we explore how popular cinema informs the Chinese tourism boom's impact on the everyday geopolitics of Sino-host tourism encounters. Through a critical discourse analysis of representations of tourism practices in Chinese film, we highlight key tropes of economic and political power that present touristic practices as imaginable, aspirational, and attainable. We then examine how actual tourism encounters compare to their onscreen imaginaries. Drawing on theoretical and methodological insights from film studies, political anthropology and geography, this article contributes to emerging multi-disciplinary work on how filmic representations of Chinese tourism mediates the ongoing rearticulation of geopolitics within what has been dubbed the 'Chinese Century'

Rethinking media responsibility in the refugee ‘crisis’: a visual typology of European news

In this paper, we analyse how news images of the 2015 Syrian refugee ‘crisis’ visualise refugees and how, in so doing, they mobilise various forms of moral responsibility in ‘our’ mediated public life – various practical dispositions of action towards the misfortunes of migrants and refugees at Europe’s border. On the basis of empirical material from European news (June-December 2015), we construct a typology of visibilities of the ‘crisis’, each of which situates refugees within a different regime of visibility and claim to action: i) visibility as biological life, associated with monitorial action; ii) visibility as empathy associated with charitable action; iii) visibility as threat, associated with state security; iv) visibility as hospitality, associated with political activism; and v) visibility as selfreflexivity, associated with a post-humanitarian engagement with people like ‘us’. In conclusion, we argue that, important as these five categories of visibility are in introducing public dispositions to action towards the vulnerable, they nonetheless ultimately fail to humanise migrants and refugees. This failure to portray them as human beings with lives that are worth sharing should compel us, we urge, to radically re-think how we understand the media’s responsibility towards vulnerable others

Zarząd majątkiem wspólnym małżonków : zagadnienia wybrane

The large number of commentaries in this special issue reflect the need that so many people have to express themselves as a way of releasing the anxieties and integrating the hopes that the COVID-19 pandemic has engendered in individuals and groups around the world. The guest editors of this special issue provide the following comments in reflecting on the major themes that are envisioned for travel and tourism in a COVID-19 world. Comments from the guest editors are individually identified in this conclusion editorial

First Test Results of the Trans-Impedance Amplifier Stage of the Ultra-fast HPSoC ASIC

We present the first results from the HPSoC ASIC designed for readout of Ultra-fast Silicon Detectors. The 4-channel ASIC manufactured in 65 nm CMOS by TSMC has been optimized for 50 um thick AC-LGAD. The evaluation of the analog front end with \b{eta}-particles impinging on 3x3 AC-LGAD arrays (500 um pitch, 200x200 um2 metal) confirms a fast output rise time of 600 ps and good timing performance with a jitter of 45 ps. Further calibration experiments and TCT laser studies indicate some gain limitations that are being investigated and are driving the design of the second-generation pre-amplification stages to reach a jitter of 15 ps.Comment: 7 pages, 6 figure

Negotiating stigmatisation of deviant behaviour: an exploration of locals’ perceptions of nude tourists

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Generation tourism: towards a common identity

The purpose of this article is to highlight the implications of the indiscipline of tourism academia for a new generation of tourism academics. Generation Tourism is characterised by scholars with a multi-disciplinary education associated with a broad field of study and commonly considered to lack the advantages of a discipline-focused education with its strong theoretical and methodological foundations. The problem this article addresses relates to how new generations of scholars and their views on knowledge creation achieve ascendancy in ways that move on from existing paradigms and earlier cohorts of scholars. Our main argument is that Generation Tourism scholars would benefit from a more clearly developed and common academic identity. To begin the critical conversation around the identity of Generation Tourism we outline five possible points of departure. These points are: (1) learning from historical developments in parent disciplines; (2) spearheading inter-disciplinary scholarship; (3) working towards theoretical developments; (4) embracing mediating methodologies and (5) forming tourism nodes and networks. Recognising these as starting points rather than final statements, we hope that the conversation about Generation Tourism identity will continue in other forums

Solidarity in spaces of ‘care and custody’: the hospitality politics of immigration detention visiting

This article contributes to criminological understanding of immigration detention by highlighting the volunteer visiting as a space of embodied thinking about critical responses to the burgeoning crimmigration system. It draws from interview material with volunteer visitors and people held in immigration detention centres to assess conceptual relevance of critical hospitality studies for anti-border practice. Both within Derridean scholarship on hospitality and in social-discourses on migration, host/citizen and guest/migrant identifications are understood as stable subject positions. I argue that to support resistance to deportation and establish mutual solidarity and cooperation in this context, detention visitors adopt multiple strategies of hospitality that position themselves as visitors as well as hosts. By counter-posing differing ways that volunteers occupy these roles, I show how the co-presence of divergent ways of offering hospitality allow visitors to navigate the complicities that necessarily afflict support in solidarity with migrants in carceral spaces of border control

Effective practices of international volunteering for health : perspectives from partner organizations

Abstract: The demand for international volunteer experiences to promote global health and nutrition is increasing and numerous studies have documented the experiences of the international volunteers who travel abroad; however, little is known about effective practices from the perspective of partner organizations. This study aims to understand how variables such as the skill-level of volunteers, the duration of service, cultural and language training, and other key variables affect partner organizations’ perceptions of volunteer effectiveness at promoting healthcare and nutrition..

La pollution de l'air en Thaïlande du Nord : d'un phénomène saisonnier à une crise écologique

Durant la saison sèche, entre février et avril, un épais nuage de pollution recouvre une grande partie de l'Asie du Sud et du Sud-Est, provoquant de nombreux problèmes sanitaires (maladies respiratoires) et économiques (baisse de la fréquentation touristique, perturbation du trafic aérien). Contrairement aux aspects physico-chimiques et biophysiques (absence de précipitations en saison sèche, inversion des températures, combustion de biomasse notamment), les facteurs sociaux et économiques à l'origine de ce phénomène n'ont pas (ou peu) été étudiés pour l'instant. Dans le cadre d'un projet collaboratif nous montrons que ce nuage de pollution est aussi une production sociale : usages coutumiers du feu pour la gestion des forêts et des champs, transitions rapides vers l'agriculture de marché, exode rural, résidences secondaires dans les campagnes et développement de l'économie touristique, etc. Tous ces éléments contribuent à la constitution de savoirs, de récits et de représentations sur l'environnement qui font partie intégrante du problème de la pollution de l'air : ils en questionnent l'ancienneté, la réalité et la mesure ; ils en désignent fréquemment les responsables, avec pour conséquence de renforcer les divisions, réelles ou fantasmées, entre groupes ethniques, entre classes sociales ou entre urbains et ruraux ; enfin, ils sont repris, tout ou partie, par les décideurs locaux et influencent directement les politiques environnementales. Notre article présente les premiers résultats d'une recherche démarrée à l'automne 2018, en insistant sur son apport pour la sociologie de la connaissance, l'ethnologie de l'Asie du Sud-Est et l'anthropologie des crises environnementales en zone tropicale

La pollution de l'air en Thaïlande du Nord : d'un phénomène saisonnier à une crise écologique

Durant la saison sèche, entre février et avril, un épais nuage de pollution recouvre une grande partie de l'Asie du Sud et du Sud-Est, provoquant de nombreux problèmes sanitaires (maladies respiratoires) et économiques (baisse de la fréquentation touristique, perturbation du trafic aérien). Contrairement aux aspects physico-chimiques et biophysiques (absence de précipitations en saison sèche, inversion des températures, combustion de biomasse notamment), les facteurs sociaux et économiques à l'origine de ce phénomène n'ont pas (ou peu) été étudiés pour l'instant. Dans le cadre d'un projet collaboratif nous montrons que ce nuage de pollution est aussi une production sociale : usages coutumiers du feu pour la gestion des forêts et des champs, transitions rapides vers l'agriculture de marché, exode rural, résidences secondaires dans les campagnes et développement de l'économie touristique, etc. Tous ces éléments contribuent à la constitution de savoirs, de récits et de représentations sur l'environnement qui font partie intégrante du problème de la pollution de l'air : ils en questionnent l'ancienneté, la réalité et la mesure ; ils en désignent fréquemment les responsables, avec pour conséquence de renforcer les divisions, réelles ou fantasmées, entre groupes ethniques, entre classes sociales ou entre urbains et ruraux ; enfin, ils sont repris, tout ou partie, par les décideurs locaux et influencent directement les politiques environnementales. Notre article présente les premiers résultats d'une recherche démarrée à l'automne 2018, en insistant sur son apport pour la sociologie de la connaissance, l'ethnologie de l'Asie du Sud-Est et l'anthropologie des crises environnementales en zone tropicale