2005 The End of Tourism?
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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS AND INVITED GUESTS
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'Networks on the Move'
At Lancaster, John Urry has been Head of the Sociology Department (1983-1989), Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences (1989-1994) and the University's Dean of Research (1994-1998). He was Chair of HEFCE's RAE Sociology Panel (1996 and 2001).
His original research interests were in the sociology of power and revolution and this resulted in Reference Groups and the Theory of Revolution (1973) and Power in Britain (1973). His early work at Lancaster was in the area of social theory and the philosophy of the social sciences. This resulted in the jointly written Social Theory as Science, (1975, 1982), which set out the main features of the realist philosophy of science. Critical confrontation with a number of Marxist traditions, of Althusserian structuralism, German state theory, and neo-Gramscian, resulted in The Anatomy of Capitalist Societies (1981) |
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Professor Michael Hall
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‘Are there laws of Mobility?
Geographic perspectives on tourism mobility ’ Author of acclaimed book, Tourism and Politics: Policy, Power and Place, C. Michael Hall is Head of the Department of Tourism at University of Otago, New Zealand. He was previously Professor of Tourism and Services Management at Victoria University of Wellington, and had held positions at the University of Canberra, Massey University, and the University of New England. He also holds an honorary professorship with Stirling University, Scotland and is a Senior Research Fellow of the New Zealand Natural Heritage Foundation at Massey University. |
