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PhD studentship available
Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change
Leeds Metropolitan University
Faculty of Arts and Society
Leeds, United Kingdom
Rubbish Travels: Cultural and Political Dimensions to Tourism and Waste
The Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change at Leeds Metropolitan
University offers a three year PhD studentship within the broad theme
of 'Tourism and Waste'. The studentship is open to EU citizens with a
master's degree in a social sciences or humanities discipline, ideally
with proven research interest in critical tourism studies or related
fields (epistemology, distance-enchantment, representations, cultural
poetics, interculturality, contact zones, pilgrimage, material culture,
heritage policy). The studentship consists of an annual £12,300 and a
tuition fee waiver. Non-EU citizens may apply, but would have to cover a
reduced tuition fee of £ 5,300 per year. Successful candidates should not
start later than 1 July 2007.
'Waste' is one of the markers of tourism/tourists. As such it travels
and 'appears' within different social and cultural settings; sometimes
challenging localised hygienic systems and values while other times being
accommodated and transformed. We are interested in the changing status of
waste/rubbish within the scope of tourism and travel and the ways in which
it shapes tourist landscapes, tourism practices, host-guest relations,
hospitality and ways to deal with the stranger, etc.
The successful candidate would be expected to develop and conduct his or
her own research agenda and actively contribute to the CTCC's dynamic
interdisciplinary research environment (with currently around 20 full-time
staff and PhD researchers). We welcome all proposals that fit within the
broad spectrum outlined above. Possible research themes which could be
studied during this studentship include:
* Contested conceptions of waste in the tourism contact zone
* Rubbish communities and the materiality of tourism waste
* The aesthetics of wastelands/-landscapes
* Contagious strangers: distance, power, purity and danger in
host-tourist relationships
* Getting wasted: tourism and late-modern spoliation rites
* Inherited waste: the ethics of colonial collections and other
relics of the past
For further information or an informal dialogue, please contact Dr David
Picard during office hours ([log in to unmask] - 0113 2832600-ext.
29021).
How to apply
Please send an electronic copy of your filled-in registration form
(including referees' details), your cover letter not exceeding two pages
and your detailed CV to Dr David Picard ([log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> ). Please do also send a hard copy of
your filled-in and signed registration form, your cover letter and your
detailed CV to:
Dr David Picard
Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change
Leeds Metropolitan University
Faculty of Arts and Society
The Old School Board
Calverley Street
LS1 3ED, Leeds
United Kingdom
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