The theme of the 2nd Critical Hospitality Symposium, to be held at Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand, from 2-4th July 2018 is ‘Hospitality is Society’. This theme aims to raise critical debate about the myriad of ways in which hospitality is society, and the different ways of theorizing, understanding and sustaining hospitality toward social change for the future. In David Bell’s article in Hospitality & Society (2012), he reminds us that, conceptually, hospitality serves both as a means of understanding society and as a specific area of social analysis. It can represent ‘the things that make society happen’; the ‘throwntogetherness’ and relational, moral, affective and interpersonal encounters in different settings that build and maintain society.
As a vehicle to bring together scholars from across a range of disciplines to trace out aspects of hospitality across various aspects of society, we invite contributions exploring the themes below.
- Critical perspectives in hospitality education, pedagogy, careers and global citizenship
- Gender and hospitality
- Global, international, national and civic hospitality interest
- Hospitality practices, food, identity and culture
- Hospitality, public health and care
- Hospitality as welcome; advocacy, faith, compassion, inclusion
- Hospitality across borders; mobility, migration, displacement, refugees
- Hospitality space and place
- Hospitality, human rights and social marginalisation
- Hospitality as ethics; life politics and ‘being with’
- Hospitality, art, therapy
- Manaakitanga and indigenous worldviews
- Moving beyond/outside Western hospitality perspectives
- Sustainability, Corporate Social Responsibility and hospitality
- Technology and hospitality for the future
- The hospitality workforce; sustainability, diversity and critical hospitality management
- The language and discourses of hospitality
- Other critical perspectives of hospitality
References:
Bell, D. (2012). Hospitality is Society. Hospitality & Society, 1(2): 137-152.
Lynch, P., Molz, J., McIntosh, A., Lugosi, P. and Lashley, C. (2011) Theorizing Hospitality, Hospitality & Society, 1(1): 3-24.
Please submit your abstracts (max. 300 words) here or via the Online Submissions link in the About section of this site.
Deadline for submission of abstracts extended: March 30 2018.
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We encourage full papers to be considered for publication in Hospitality & Society. Please see the Journal Guidelines for Submission: https://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=194/
Submissions for this conference were closed on 2018-03-31.
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