 I just received an advance copy of my book, A Landscape of Travel: The Work of Tourism in Rural Ethnic China, which is now featured on the University of Washington Press website and in the Spring 2014 catalog.
It's amazing to see this project finally coming into being as a book. I'm really looking forward to sharing it with my friends and collaborators in China, as well as discussing it with colleagues, students, and anyone else interested in tourism, labor, and ethnicity in contemporary China. The Tourism Studies Working Group at UC Berkeley has just added announced my book on their website too! Visit the page and learn more about TSWG here. Carol Clark, of Emory's eScienceCommons blog, has just published an article on my research about tourism's impact in rural Guizhou and Guangxi.
Read all about it here: http://esciencecommons.blogspot.com/2014/02/a-close-look-at-tourisms-impact-in.html I had a great conversation with Carol last December about my work in China, and I'm pleased to be featured (along with some of my photographs) on the blog! I'm very happy to learn that my film, 农家乐 Peasant Family Happiness, will be screened in a special session during the 2014 Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in March! I'll be there in person for a post-film q&a.
The theme of this meeting is "Destinations," and I'm looking forward to discussing my work with professionals and scholars working on tourism, cultural heritage, preservation, and related issues across the academic and applied spectrum. There are also plans for panels, lectures, and related events on tourism studies in anthropology, so it'll be a great chance for me to engage more fully with current work in the field. The details for the screening are: Saturday, March 22, 2014 12-1:20 Hotel Albuquerque at Old Town www.sfaa.net
The call for papers is now closed, and we are excited to have received an unexpected number of submissions! I have been working closely with the organizers in AES and the SVA to pull together a number of sessions that will feature extended video presentations. A preliminary program is now available online.
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