Caton, Kellee

Chiao Ling Yang, Elaine

Eger, Claudia

Jeffrey, Heather

Khoo-Lattimore, Catheryn

Morgan, Nigel John

Munar, Ana María

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Critical Tourism Studies Proceedings 
Volume 2017 Article 46 
2017 
The Beauty and the Abuse: A Workshop for Dialogue, Reflexivity, 
and Action 
Ana María Munar 
anm.mpp@cbs.dk 
Kellee Caton 
Thompson Rivers University, kcaton@tru.ca 
Claudia Eger 
University of Warwick, c.eger@warwick.ac.uk 
Heather Jeffrey 
University of Bedfordshire, h.l.jeffrey@mdx.ac.ae 
Catheryn Khoo-Lattimore 
Griffith University, c.khoo-lattimore@griffith.edu.au 
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Munar, Ana María; Caton, Kellee; Eger, Claudia; Jeffrey, Heather; Khoo-Lattimore, Catheryn; Morgan, Nigel 
John; and Chiao Ling Yang, Elaine (2017) "The Beauty and the Abuse: A Workshop for Dialogue, 
Reflexivity, and Action," Critical Tourism Studies Proceedings: Vol. 2017 , Article 46. 
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The Beauty and the Abuse: A Workshop for Dialogue, Reflexivity, and Action 
Authors 
Ana María Munar, Kellee Caton, Claudia Eger, Heather Jeffrey, Catheryn Khoo-Lattimore, Nigel John 
Morgan, and Elaine Chiao Ling Yang 
This workshop is available in Critical Tourism Studies Proceedings: https://digitalcommons.library.tru.ca/cts-
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Title: The Beauty and the Abuse: A Workshop for Dialogue, Reflexivity, and Action 
Author: Ana María Munar1, Kellee Caton2, Claudia Eger 3, Heather Jeffrey 4, Catheryn Khoo-
Lattimore5, Nigel Morgan6, & Elaine Yang5 
Affiliation: Copenhagen Business School1; Thompson Rivers University2; University of 
Warwick3; Middlesex University & University of Bedfordshire4; Griffith University5; Swansea 
University6 
Contact: amm.int@cbs.dk 
Session Type: Workshop 
 
Abstract: 
This workshop presents a handbook and a method to enhance dialogue, reflexivity, and 
action on the beauty and the abuse which characterizes human relationships and emotions in 
academic environments. Academic lives are often characterized by a blurring of boundaries 
between personal and professional spheres. The main aim of this workshop is to help create 
spaces of trust, where academics can reflect on experiences and complex issues, which are often 
considered taboo, shameful, or private, although these experiences have a major impact on our 
wellbeing and working lives. A series of vignettes inspired in real stories are presented. These 
stories all have in common that they deal with the lights and the shadows of how eroticism, love, 
sex, power, prejudice, and gendered academic identities and cultures shape our working 
environments and influence our career choices and trajectories. Each vignette section deals with 
one or several of the following themes: friendship love, romantic love, flirting, eroticism, sex, 
desire, dating cultures, committed relationships, paternalistic sexism, hostile sexism, sexual 
harassment, and jealousy. 
The vignettes have been anonymized but provide veridical accounts of stories and 
experiences in academia. Each story consists of the vignette’s narrative and the presentation of a 
personal dilemma for discussion. The handbook includes a thematic list of resources for 
inspiration and further action, which includes recommended readings, literature, and online 
materials, such as guidelines and policies, links to online forums, associations, and initiatives 
that can provide support. 
Workshop Method 
After a brief introduction, the participants will be divided into groups. The group 
activities (describing, reflecting, and sharing) will be facilitated by the authors: 
Describing: The vignette narrative is read out loud. 
Reflecting: The dilemma is presented, and participants are asked to write down their own 
feelings and thoughts related to the vignette narrative and to consider aspects such as these: 
Embodiment and feeling. How did they feel when listening to this story? Where did the emotion 
feel in their bodies? Identification and empathy. How do they think they would have felt or acted 
in relation to the narrative (1) if they were the protagonist of the story and (2) if they were a 
colleague who was a witness to the story? 
Sharing: The facilitator moderates the dialogue and asks each of the participants to share 
what they have written and their thoughts and opinions. 
The activity ends with pointing out the available resources and asking participants to 
share their knowledge about other resources they may know about which may benefit the group. 
 
This workshop is developed as one of the initiatives of the online community Women 
Academics in Tourism. 
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