Academic conferences: a female duo-ethnography

Mair, Judith; Frew, Elspeth

doi:10.1080/13683500.2016.1248909

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“…The findings of these research studies all highlight the challenges associated with inclusionary practices, especially with regard to diverse and marginalized communities. MICE, especially academic conferences, have had some limited critical examination to date (Henderson, 2018;Mair & Frew, 2018;Walters, 2018), often relying on ethnographic approaches and concentrating on consumer/client perspectives. This provides scope for further exploration of the multi-layered processes and practices concerning accessibility, diversity, and inclusion in the experiential industries, especially with regard to employee and practitioner points of view.…”

Section: Accessibility Diversity and Inclusion In The Mice Industrymentioning

confidence: 99%

Accessibility, diversity, and inclusion in the UK meetings industry

Dashper

Finkel

2020

Journal of Convention & Event Tourism

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Issues of accessibility, diversity, and inclusion are becoming increasingly important for MICE managers around the globe and need to be considered in terms of both event attendees and employees/meetings professionals. The UK MICE sector is facing an unprecedented period of disruption in relation to the recent COVID-19 pandemic and the uncertainty of Brexit, the impacts of which may have far-reaching consequences in terms of equality and diversity. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 13 stakeholders-meeting planners, venue managers, entrepreneurs and member organization leaders-this paper considers how issues of accessibility, diversity, and inclusion are playing out in the changing landscape of the UK meetings industry. Findings suggest that although the MICE sector is paying increasing attention to the importance of accessibility, there is evidence of persistent inequality and marginalization on the grounds of gender, age, 'race' and (dis)ability. We question if a focus on diversity remains a priority in economically, politically, and socially unsettled times, and what this may mean for an inclusive future for the UK meetings industry.

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Section: Accessibility Diversity and Inclusion In The Mice Industrymentioning

confidence: 99%

Accessibility, diversity, and inclusion in the UK meetings industry

Dashper

Finkel

2020

Journal of Convention & Event Tourism

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“…Moreover, the importance of conference attendance for developing networks and collaborations has been demonstrated by a number of researchers (e.g. Campos et al 2018;Mair and Frew 2018;Wang et al 2017). Conference travel as a form of 'high mobility' that characterizes elite professionalism in the contemporary era contributes to an academic's participation in a global elite of interconnected researchers.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…It is important to highlight that academics with caring responsibilities do value conference travel, as gendered expectations of motherhood (in particular) include assumptions of acquiescence to gendered immobility (Nielsen 2017;. For the participants in the study, conference mobility was valued for a number of reasons and was discussed in its catalytic function as leading to further collaborations as well as having intrinsic value as a vehicle for sharing research, maintaining an academic identity and research profile, and also providing occasions for work-related socializing (Mair and Frew 2018). Equally strong was the thread regarding the challenges posed to conference mobility by ongoing caring responsibilities.…”

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Sticky care and conference travel: unpacking care as an explanatory factor for gendered academic immobility

Henderson

2020

High Educ

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While there is increasing awareness of the contributing effect of the academic mobility imperative on gendered inequalities in the academic profession at large, there is a missing link in current research on this topic. Namely, while 'care' is often named as the explanatory factor for why women, and to an extent professionals of any gender at peak childrearing age, are less mobile, this article argues that care is insufficient as an explanatory factor for immobility. Care and other terms such as 'family responsibilities' and 'domestic obligations' come to serve as a shorthand or explanatory factor for gendered immobility, but these terms elide the complexity of the relationship between care and mobility. This article argues that, without a fuller understanding of how care and mobility intersect, inclusivity drives run the risk of misunderstanding or even reproducing the problem. The specific mobility addressed here is international conference travel as a form of short-term academic mobility which contributes to academic career success and the perpetuation of a mobile academic ideal. The article elaborates a novel conceptual construct, 'sticky care', which is applied to empirical data from a diary-interview study of the impact of caring responsibilities on academics' conference participation. Two dominant mobility-related strategies are elaborated: 'night/s away' and 'get back'. The overarching ambition of this article is at a conceptual level: to bring more complexity and nuance to the concept of care when it is mobilized as an explanatory factor for (gendered) immobility and indeed for inequalities in the academic profession at large.

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“…The phenomena as such pose a question of what conference space can enable and dis-enable for long-term knowledge-making. Do academic conferences ignore or even reinforce the very problems they claim to criticize (Mair & Frew, 2016;Walters, 2018)? If tourism academia strives to be more open and inclusive, what kind of conference space is desirable?…”

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“…Emerging from conversations on the authors' own experiences at international tourism conferences, this article regards international conferences as an important yet neglected social space and context for understanding how non-Western scholars experience and perceive their own interactions with others in the academic world, and how these interactions and experience have influenced their knowledge-making process. Conferences are traditionally viewed from an organizational perspective, and most previous studies tend to focus on the motivations of conference attendees and the functionalities of the conferences, such as networking, getting feedback, developing career paths, keeping up with research trends, and encountering research interests (Mair & Frew, 2016). Recently in tourism studies, some scholars situate issues relating to knowledge production, such as gender and social justice, in the context of conferences (Munar et al, 2015;Walters, 2018).…”

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Ontological mingling and mapping: Chinese tourism researchers’ experiences at international conferences

Zhang

Xiaoyue

2020

Tourism Geographies

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Within tourism studies, the 'critical turn' has evoked growing reflective and critical perspectives on the role of the researcher in producing knowledge. This has also led to calls for building an inclusive research community, particularly through including non-Western and non-positivist methodologies. While it is noted that non-Western scholarship has gained more visibility in the international tourism research community through publications in prestigious academic journals, few studies discuss non-Western scholars' interactions with other scholars in a qualitative and individual manner. Based on in-depth interviews with nineteen Chinese tourism scholars, we explore how their experiences at international conferences have shaped their positionality as 'Chinese researchers' in the international scientific community and thus contributed to their knowledge making. A process of mingling and mapping is shown in the narratives, where Chinese scholars attempt to find meanings of being at an academic conference and to understand the relations embedded in the conference space. Dynamics and reflexivity are seen in terms of how one goes around certain constructed binaries, such as 'Western/ non-Western', 'male/female' and 'junior/senior'. Finally, such a process of mingling and mapping affects the participants' views on who will make the non-Western knowledge and how. With these voices from Chinese tourism scholars, we therefore contribute to the discourse of non-Western knowledge-making.

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Academic conferences: a female duo-ethnography

Cited by 52 publications

References 62 publications

Accessibility, diversity, and inclusion in the UK meetings industry

Accessibility, diversity, and inclusion in the UK meetings industry

Sticky care and conference travel: unpacking care as an explanatory factor for gendered academic immobility

Ontological mingling and mapping: Chinese tourism researchers’ experiences at international conferences

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