Social Sciences Hub
Date: Tuesday 20 May 2025
Time: 15:00 - 16:30
Venue: Online Webinar
Category: Public lectures, Academic events, Student events, Staff workshops and seminars

JUST TOUR Seminar Series: Unsettling the Human: More-than-human Provocations for Justice in Tourism

Our next seminar will be Tuesday 20 May 2025, at 3.00pm (BST / UK Time). 

This seminar will explore how more-than-human framings allow us to challenge the centrality of humans in justice discourse, and tune into the complex relationship between humans and non-humans. We will consider the various theoretical underpinnings that serve to unsettle justice discourse (e.g. posthumanism, new materialism and theories of affect), as well as the methodological complexities in attending to more-than-human framings in just ways. Speakers will articulate how such framings allow an unsettling of justice discourse, with the impetus to advocate for cross-species justice and the rights of non-humans in the spaces and places of tourism. 

 

Seminar Participant Activity

We are looking forward to having you join us as part of the panel discussion on Wednesday 20th May. As part of that session we would like you to share something with us that represents tourism mobilities to you. This could be something that has a direct association with that concept, feeling, or experience, or it may be something that stands in a more symbolic relationship to it.

We will invite people to use the chat to describe what they have with them and tell us about the rationale for their choice.

It may be a piece of music, or a sound, or something else ephemeral. Your artefact does not need to be a tangible thing. As part of the panel discussion, we will share some of the items (and their rationales) posted in the chat. It is important that you look to express your own thoughts, feelings and/or experiences through what you share and how you share them, rather than looking for something you think other people would like to hear. There are no right or wrong things that can be shared. What is interesting is the rationale for your choice.

Thank you. We really hope you feel OK to participate with us all, in this way.

Very best wishes,

Lucia & Ian

 

Speakers:

Michela Stinson, University of Waterloo Alumni / Independent Scholar, Canada 

Lucia Tomassini, Senior Research Lecturer, NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands 

Ian Lamond, Independent Researcher, UK 

Annaclaudia Martini, Researcher, University of Bologna, Italy 

 

Moderator:

Anna de Jong School of Social & Environmental Sustainability, University of Glasgow

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