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*Call for Papers ASEAS*
*Focus: Tourism and Development in Southeast Asia*
The upcoming issue of the Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies
(ASEAS) 8(2) puts its focus around critical discussions on the topic of
tourism and development in Southeast Asia. Tourism in Southeast Asia is
without doubt an ever-growing economic sector and income generator for
millions of people directly or indirectly involved in the industry. At
the same time it constitutes a social phenomenon connecting people not
only the Western tourist and their hosts, but also those local to the
region, based on a rise in domestic and intra-regional travel. However,
tourism has also caused increasing socioeconomic inequality and vast
disruptions to local ecosystems, societies, and cultures, above all
through the expansion of an industry that often exceeds local carrying
capacity limits, supported through injections of capital by external
funding bodies with little local initiative. Nevertheless, although
tourisms repercussions are well known, it constitutes a widely used
tool for poverty alleviation and development in Southeast Asia.
A growing awareness exists particularly of the value of grassroots
tourism projects that are led by local communities. These grassroots
initiatives assist in uplifting the livelihoods of a number of Southeast
Asians for whom opportunities are created to use their skills as well as
the available social, cultural, and environmental assets to diversify
local incomes. Politicians, activists, academics, local decision makers,
and community members themselves appear to have learned a great deal of
how to do development correctly in terms of increasing local capacity,
creating linkages to other sectors, or empowering those that are
affected most by tourism: locals themselves. While this special issue
welcomes contributions on best-practice examples of tourism for
development in Southeast Asia, it equally discusses local challenges,
such as issues of ownership and unequal power relations between
communities, governments, NGOs, and tourists.
Therefore, this issue welcomes critical contributions on the broader
topic of tourism and development from a variety of disciplines, such as
geography, tourism studies, development studies, anthropology, political
science, or environmental studies. Topics include but are not limited to
the following aspects:
tourism for sustainable development
eco- or community-based tourism initiatives
community empowerment through tourism
international, local, and regional cooperation in tourism for development
the social, environmental, and political processes and challenges of
tourism as development tool
best-practice examples in tourism for development
approaches to development through tourism
*Deadline for submissions: 31 March 2015*
Further Details:
If you intend to submit a paper, please contact: [log in to unmask]
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Please note that we also accept contributions outside the focus; in
this case please get in touch via email (see above).
You can find the ASEAS Guidelines for Submissions and the link to our
Editorial Platform (to submit your paper) here.
Find this Call for Papers 8(2) on our website
(http://www.seas.at/our-journal-aseas/our-journal-aseascall-for-papers-aseas-82-tourism-development/)
and as a PDF attached to this email.
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