Imagining the Alpha male of the tourism tribe

Ek, Richard; Larson, Mia

doi:10.1080/13032917.2017.1370778

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“…A major focus of gender research concerns the roles, careers and representation of women in academia (Bagilhole and White, 2013) and hospitality and tourism scholars have devoted considerable attention to these topics (Munar, 2017; Jeffrey, 2017; Ek and Larson, 2017; Pritchard et al , 2007; Swain and Momsen, 2002). The report “Gender Gap in the Tourism Academy” (Munar et al , 2015) concluded that women are under-represented in senior leadership positions in tourism academia, and that there is an imbalance in the number and influence of women compared with men.…”

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Gender disparities and positioning in collaborative hospitality and tourism research

Köseoğlu

King

Rahimi

2019

IJCHM

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Purpose This paper aims to explore gender disparities in the production of tourism knowledge with particular reference to academic journals. Design/methodology/approach Authorship and co-authorship analyses were conducted of data extracted from articles and research notes published between 1965 and 2016 in 25 hospitality and tourism journals. Findings Gender imbalances are evident in the production of knowledge, though the disparities appear to be decreasing. While heterophilic research collaborations (those between men and women) show some evidence of higher productivity, homophilic collaborations (between males) have greater impact. The findings highlight gender imbalances in international collaborations, in SSCI listed journals, in first authoring and by country. There is evidence of higher collaborative levels among male authors and the differences have increased over time. The positioning of men and women within tourism scholarly networks shows no marked differences. Practical implications This data-driven analysis provides decision makers and policymakers with evidence to support well-targeted programs that advance female contributions in hospitality and tourism research collaborations. For example, senior academics and University administrators might offer support for female researchers to become more actively involved in hospitality and tourism research groups and projects. Universities or schools might also seek to encourage collaborations between male and female researchers in their performance indicators. Originality/value This study is one of the first to examine gender disparities and positioning in collaborative hospitality and tourism research.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Gender disparities and positioning in collaborative hospitality and tourism research

Köseoğlu

King

Rahimi

2019

IJCHM

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“…The standard model of an academic career is presented as gender neutral but is in fact based on a masculine model. Bagilhole and Goode (2001) argue that a myth of individual merit disguises the importance of powerful male networks and conceals the support men often get from other men, as is evidenced in the citation practices and reification of senior male researchers reported in the field of tourism (Ek & Larson, 2017;Nunkoo et al, 2019). Collaboration is seen as key to academic success, but women often struggle to access influential collaborators and networks, which can negatively affect career progression (Hart, 2016;Zippel, 2019).…”

Section: Theorising Gender In the Tourism Academymentioning

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Gendering knowledge in tourism: gender (in)equality initiatives in the tourism academy

Dashper¹,

Turner²,

Wengel³

2023

Gender and Tourism Sustainability

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The tourism academy is a key site through which gender is produced, reproduced and, potentially, challenged. In this paper, we draw on Acker's (1990) concept of gendered organisations to present a case study of a tourism department preparing to apply for an international gender equality charter-accreditation, Athena SWAN. Ketso was used as a method to try to stimulate active involvement of all staff members and breakdown traditional hierarchies within the team, and to encourage honest discussion about gender and inequality in this context. This was only partially successful, however, and we discuss how explicit focus on gender (in)equality through this process both enabled discussion of usually ignored topics and revealed entrenched gender power dynamics and structural and institutional barriers to reform. The paper illustrates both the possibilities of gender equality initiatives like Athena SWAN to highlight many of the gendered practices of tourism academia and the limitations they hold for overcoming deep-rooted gender inequality.

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“…A logic of particularity that always already is inherent to the discipline of tourism studies and permeate its world-view. The world as an oyster of extraordinary, distinguished, and exceptional touristic places for the (usually male) tourism scholar to explore and conquer (Ek & Larson, 2017), in stark contrast to the mundane and ordinary home (Nilsson & Tesfahuney, 2018). Tourism has been framed as the search for and the experience of the authentic other (so central to the discipline's core conceptual apparatus) and the spatiotemporal sublimity of mythic and extraordinary touristic places (nowadays increasingly transformed into alienating touristic enclave by a relentless market-based commodification machinery), or if you like, touristic spaces of exception.…”

Section: The Citizen and The Touristmentioning

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Topologies of tourism enclaves

Tesfahuney

2019

Tourism Geographies

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Research on tourism enclaves has relied mainly on topographical understandings of the phenomenon. The focus has been on the ontic, that which is or exists instead of the relational qualities or properties of tourism enclaves. Topographical conceptions thus tend to simplify enclavic processes and attributes that are much more complex than meets the eye. In this article, we make the case for topological understandings of tourism enclaves, based on a relational ontology, as a complement. We thereby strive to offer more nuanced conceptions of tourism enclaves. We depart from Agamben's political ontology to illustrate our claim. Seen topologically, tourism enclaves are not simply spaces marked-off from the norm, but rather constituents of the norm. Tourism enclaves need to be theorized as 'prototypes' or 'laboratories' of new subjectivities (ways of being, relating, and experiencing the world). The tourist thus emerges as a model figure of biopolitics in the contemporary, the norm rather than the exception. The tourist is not that which is abandoned by the sovereign in the manner of Agamben, but rather a free exilant, a subject that self-willingly chooses abandonment. We deploy topological concepts, like Agamben's the ban, the camp, and state of exception. Such a conception, we argue, widens the ontological register or horizon of tourism theory.

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Imagining the Alpha male of the tourism tribe

Cited by 13 publications

References 81 publications

Gender disparities and positioning in collaborative hospitality and tourism research

Gender disparities and positioning in collaborative hospitality and tourism research

Gendering knowledge in tourism: gender (in)equality initiatives in the tourism academy

Topologies of tourism enclaves

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