[URBANTH-L]PhD studentship available

Carl, Daniela D.Carl at leedsmet.ac.uk
Mon Feb 12 17:57:04 EST 2007


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 (d.picard at leedsmet.ac.uk - 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 (d.picard at leedsmet.ac.uk <mailto:d.picard at leedsmet.ac.uk> ). 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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Daniela Carl

Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change

Faculty of Arts & Society

Leeds Metropolitan University

The Old School Board

Calverley Street

Leeds

LS1 3ED

UK

 

phone +44 (0)113- 283 8541

x 28 541

fax +44 (0)113- 283 8544

www.tourism-culture.com

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