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The call for papers has opened for the Nordic Symposium on Tourism and Hospitality Research, hosted by Mid Sweden University, 19-21 September (https://www.miun.se/Forskning/forskningscentra/etour/nordicsymposium2023/)
Please find below a call for one of the special sessions at the conference. Please submit abstracts by the 21st April 2023 through the submission system EasyChair https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nsthr2023.
Session title: Decent and Meaningful: Tourism and Hospitality Work in Sustainable Tourism Futures
Contributors (corresponding contributors: Anu Marju-Myllyaho and Tara Duncan):
Anu Harju-Myllyaho, Lapland University of Applied Sciences, [log in to unmask]
Mari Vähäkuopus, Lapland University of Applied Sciences, [log in to unmask]
Sini Kestilä, Lapland University of Applied Sciences, [log in to unmask]
Tara Duncan, Dalarna University, [log in to unmask]
Susanna Heldt Cassel, Dalarna University, [log in to unmask]
Maria Thulemark, Dalarna University, [log in to unmask]
Tone Therese Linge, University of Stavanger, [log in to unmask]
Olga Gjerald, University of Stavanger, [log in to unmask]
Åsa Helene Bakkevig Dagsland, University of Stavanger, [log in to unmask]
This session intends to be two-fold. Firstly, and immediately below, is a call for papers for a ‘traditional’ paper session where we ask colleagues to critically and thoughtfully engage with the topics suggested. Secondly, we will host a workshop session where we call for engagement in intellectual activism following the lead of the GHRA (Global Hospitality Research Alliance) as we aim to work towards our critical research making a difference to society.
Firstly, we invite submissions for a paper session that will discuss current challenges concerning the future of decent, meaningful, and socially sustainable tourism and hospitality work. The tourism and hospitality sectors continue to struggle with many issues including labour shortages, precarious working conditions, skills and competency incongruities, abuse and harassment issues and high levels of turnover. We know, for instance, that COVID-19 has had a definite, often negative, impact on tourism and hospitality labour, and amplified worklife challenges identified in previous decades of research.
At the same time, working life is in constant transition. How we work and who is employed is ever-changing as, for example, people with broader cultural and demographic backgrounds, values and principles enter working life. More attention needs to be paid to employees possibilities of experiencing a sense of meaningfulness at work, yet with consideration to ethical structures and practices of the working community.
The future is built on the realities of today and thus, a way to make progress is through the formation of alternative scenarios and (re)construction of (socially) sustainable futures. This demands critical discussion and scrutiny of the current state of tourism and hospitality research around work, employment and labour, its developments and the ability to deconstruct the realities of today.
We welcome active, critical, engaged presentations as part of this paper session. Topics for consideration might include, but are not limited to:
• Social sustainability and tourism/hospitality work
• Meaningful work and career paths in tourism/hospitality
• Intersectional approaches to tourism/hospitality work
• Inhospitality workplaces: abuse, harassment and the treatment of staff
• Critical/alternative perspectives to meaningful tourism/hospitality work
• Work identities and work culture in tourism and hospitality
• Innovations in research methods
• Embodiment and performativity
• Precarity and the tourism/hospitality worker
• Affective labour and tourism/hospitality spaces
The second part of this call will be for a workshop session which will build on the collection of papers presented in session(s) above. It will also utilise the impetus of the GHRA to bring together scholars and other interested parties to discuss how, in a Nordic context, our research, outputs and dissemination can be utilised to make a difference, specifically to tourism and hospitality workplaces. Thinking through ways in which we can employ multi-stakeholder engagement in our dissemination processes, this workshop will involve group activities, lively discussion and scenario planning to work towards tangible ways forward for students, academics and workers to engage, promote and ensure opportunities and possibilities for decent, meaningful and sustainable work in tourism and hospitality.
Thanks
Tara Duncan
School of Culture and Society
Dalarna University, Falun, Sweden
T: +46 (0)23 778697
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