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Professor Dean MacCannell University of California Davis, USA Professor and Master Advisor on Landscape Architecture, Dean McCannell is internationally recognised as the founder of tourism studies with his 1976 book, "The tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class", which has just been republished in a new edition by The University of California Press (1999) with a "Foreword by critic Lucy Lippard, and a new "Epilogue" by the author. Professor MacCannell's recent book, "Empty Meeting Grounds", is a major synthesis of his research on community and landscape change. The book has been widely reviewed and represented a major contribution to the literature on landscape, community, and culture. In addition to his research and writing, Professor MacCannell maintains an active lecturing schedule. He has spoken at UCLA, Berkeley, the Davies Forum in San Francisco, and gave lectures on the history of landscape representation in England and Finland. |
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Dr Sarah Pink Loughborough University, UK Sarah Pink is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Programme Director, at Loughborough University. Her book "Doing Visual Ethnography: images, media and representation in research" draws on her own and other researchers' work and experiences to outline the potential for using these media in ethnographic research and representation. Her current main research focus is an ethnographic study of the Cittàslow (Slow Cities) and Slow Food movements currently based in the UK. Funded by the Nuffield Foundation this study focuses on how the identities, everyday realities, experiences, aspirations and sense of well-being of local residents are constituted through engagement with Cittàslow and Slow Food ideologies, practices and criteria. |
Workshop by Dr. Christina Silver, University of Surrey