Dear Colleagues, apologies for cross postings,
We've several updates regarding the Hospitality and Society Journal.
1. Books available for review
The following books are available for review in the Journal. We are looking for critical but professional reviews around 800-1000 words in lengths that discuss the book's content and its contributions to the interdisciplinary understanding of hospitality. We usually ask for reviews to be returned to us in 6 weeks.
Mark Jayne, Gill Valentine and Sarah Holloway (2011) Alcohol, Drinking and Drunkenness: Disorderly Spaces. Ashgate.
Danielle de Vooght (2011) (ed) Royal Taste: Food, Power and Status at the European Courts After 1789. Ashgate.
Please contact Peter Lugosi ([log in to unmask]) if you are interested in writing a review.
2. Contents for issue 1.2
Editorial
111-116 Sustaining hospitality by Conrad Lashley, Oxford Brookes University and
Peter Lugosi, Oxford Brookes University.
Refereed articles
117–136 Work-life mobility and stability: The employment histories of immigrant workers at a unionized Toronto
hotel PAUL WATT
137–152 Hospitality is society, DAVID BELL
153–172 Commensality in French and German young adults: An ethnographic study, GIADA DANESI
173–188 Hidden injuries of class and bourgeoisie dreams: Casino workers, traditional shipbuilders and boutique
hotels in Macao, CHIN EE ONG
189–201 At home with Elvis: Home hosting at the Parkes Elvis Festival, JEN LI AND JOHN CONNELL
Book reviews
203–205 The Hungry Cowboy: Service and Community in a Neighborhood Restaurant, Karla A. Erickson (2009)
205–208 Moving Pictures/Stopping Places: Hotels and Motels on Film, David B. Clarke,
Valerie Crawford Pfannhauser and Marcus A. Doel (eds) (2009)
209–210 Thinking Through Tourism (ASA Monograph 46), Julie Scott and Tom Selwyn (eds) (2010)
A free version of Volume 1: 1 is available at:
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/hosp/2011/00000001/00000001
The contents for 1.3 should be online very soon.
3. Call for papersHospitality & Society is an international multidisciplinary
social sciences journal focusing upon hospitality and exploring its
connections with wider social and cultural processes and structures. The
journal welcomes submissions from various disciplines and aims to be an
interactive forum expanding frontiers of knowledge and contributing to
the literature on hospitality social science. Articles that stimulate
debate, discussion and exchange across disciplines are welcomed, as well
as review essays or short topical pieces that are provocative and
problematic in nature. Further details of the Journal, including the aims and scope, editorial board and guidance on submissions can be found at:
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Peter Lugosi, PhD
Reader
Oxford School of Hospitality Management
Faculty of Business
Oxford Brookes University
Gipsy Lane
Oxford
OX3 0BP
Tel: +44 (0)1865 484 404
Fax: +44 (0)1865 483 878