Education 【 display / non-display 】

Education 【 display / non-display 】

• University of Otago   Department of Tourism   PhD  

• University of Otago   Department of Tourism   MTour  

• University of Alberta   School of Business   BComm  

Academic & Professional Experience 【 display / non-display 】

Academic & Professional Experience 【 display / non-display 】

• 2019

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  Wakayama University   Faculty of Tourism   Associate Professor

• 2016

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  2019

  Wakayama University   Center for Tourism Research (CTR)   Associate Professor

• 2014

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  2016

  University of Otago   Department of Management   Lecturer

• 2013

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  2014

  University of Otago   Center for Sustainability   Research Fellow

• 2010

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  2014

  University of Otago   Department of Tourism   Assistant Research Fellow/Sessional Lecturer/Tutor

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Research Areas 【 display / non-display 】

• Humanities & social sciences / Philosophy and ethics / Business Ethics, Relationality, Jean-Luc Nancy

• Humanities & social sciences / Tourism studies / Critical Tourism Studies, Tourism & Environment, Surf Tourism

• Humanities & social sciences / Sociology / Lifestyle Sports, Surfing & Surf Culture, Japan

Classes (including Experimental Classes, Seminars, Graduation Thesis Guidance, Graduation Research, and Topical Research) 【 display / non-display 】

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Research Interests 【 display / non-display 】

• Japanese Studies

• Ethics & Philosophy

• Surf Tourism

• Tourism and Coastal Environments

• Lifestyle Sports

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• In search of light: Ecohumanities, tourism and Fukushima's post-disaster resurgence

  Adam Doering, Kumi Kato （Part： Lead author )

  In Higgins-Desbiolles, Doering, & Bigby (Eds). Socialising Tourism: Rethinking Tourism for Social and Ecological Justice     175 - 194   2021  [Refereed]  [Invited]

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  In its simplest form the Japanese character (hikari) means light. The character is also included in the compound (kanko), meaning tourism or more literally “to see the light”. In this chapter, we approach post-disaster Fukushima in search of new light. Situating human-environment relations at the centre of our analysis, our aim is to illuminate the creativity of people and communities whose care and compassion animates the ongoingness of life as they seek to reconnect with their lands and seas. Inspired by the ecohumanities, we offer an affirmative, creative and exploratory ethos/methodology for scholars and practitioners of socialising tourism to consider, drawing attention to the importance of this life-affirming approach for post-disaster tourism environments. To give texture to this discussion, we share stories of how Fukushima communities are rebuilding a sense of dwelling with the land and sea in two settings: the creative and artistic tourism undertaken in central Nakadori Region around Iitate Village and the post-disaster surf tourism developments at Kitaizumi Beach in Minamisoma City. We argue that in addition to situating people and communities at the centre of tourism decision-making, similar attention needs to be paid to the often invisible, fragile and yet foundational relations between people and their lands and seas if we hope to build more ecologically just tourism futures.

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• Mobilizing stoke: A genealogy of surf tourism development in Miyazaki, Japan

  Doering, A. （Part： Lead author )

  In R. Sharpley & K. Kato Tourism Development in Japan: Themes, Issues and Challenges ( ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD )  15 ( 1 ) 102 - 118   2020  [Refereed]  [Invited]

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  © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This article presents a genealogy of domestic surf tourism development in contemporary Japan. Drawing on two months’ ethnographic fieldwork conducted between July and August 2016, and participant observation during three years working, living and surfing in the area, I trace the historical production of one of Japan’s most prominent surf tourism destinations, Miyazaki Prefecture. Detailing the convergence of surfing culture and tourism development from 1930 to 2016, I examine how surf tourism came to be mobilised in Miyazaki as a tool for revitalising the local economy. The article then addresses three important transformations of the Japanese seascape surf tourism development invites: the feminisation of surf capital, global cultural gentrification and the reinforcement of urban–rural disparities. The article concludes with a reflection on how surf tourism development may (dis)connect local surfing communities and identify areas for future research concerning surf destination development leading up to the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

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• Performative nationalism in Japan’s inbound tourism television programmes: YOU, Sekai! (The World), and the tourism nation

  Adam Doering, Tsz Hei (Terrance) Kong （Part： Lead author )

  In Hideki Endo (Ed.) Understanding Tourism Mobilities in Japan     138 - 157   2020  [Refereed]

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  This chapter examines how inbound tourism offers a familiar yet new context for understanding the complexities and contradictions of national identity and nationalism in the context of Japan’s tourism nation-building efforts. Over the past decade international inbound tourism has garnered unprecedented attention by the Japanese national government and is now recognised as a major pillar of the economic growth strategy and a critical industry for facilitating rural and regional revitalization. For much of the twentieth century tourism was not a national priority for the Japanese government. The launch of the Visit Japan Campaign in 2003 marked the beginning of a national branding strategy to encourage inbound tourism, initially aiming to attract 10 million international tourists annually by 2010. A close reading of Japan’s governmental policy between 2003 and 2016 reveals that inbound tourism is as much about national cultural revitalisation as it is economic.

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• Maintaining Masculinities in Japan’s Transnational Surfscapes: Space, Place, and Gender

  Adam Doering, Clifton Evers

  Journal of Sport and Social Issues ( SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC )  43 ( 5 ) 386 - 406   2019.10  [Refereed]

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  © The Author(s) 2019. This article examines the local practices, histories, and transnational circulation and exchange of gender ideologies within Japanese surfscapes. A focus on gender in relation to Japanese surf culture is critical as the ways surf spaces in Japan are governed and/or have changed in recent years has as much to do with transnational gender surf ideologies as with its domestic gender norms. More specifically, we examine how gendered ideologies in Japan are mobilized in particular ways depending on the conditions of possibility—the cultural, social, geographical, historical, and networked elements—that comprise any given surfscape. To draw attention to the complexities involved in the relationship between space, place, and gender in Japan, the enquiry is undertaken in a highly localized, territorial, and big-wave surf site in Wakayama Prefecture and surrounding Kansai region. This site has been chosen because of how it localizes a unique mode of trans-Pacific surf culture, thereby offering insight into the nuances, issues, and strategies of social change as surfing continues to evolve in the region. The aim of the analysis is twofold. The first is contextual, highlighting the importance of the culturally and site-specific character of how surf culture and gender relations are assembled in the Japanese context. The second is to offer insight into the specific histories and transnational relationships informing the gendered practices of surfing in Japan today. The intention is to highlight the diversity of surf cultures throughout East Asia and the different ways surfing lifestyles are localized in relation to socio-political-ecological place-making and gender.

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• Mobilising Stoke: A Genealogy of Surf Tourism Development in Miyazaki, Japan

  Adam Doering （Part： Lead author )

  Tourism Planning and Development   15 ( 1 ) 68 - 81   2018  [Refereed]

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Books etc 【 display / non-display 】

• Socialising tourism : rethinking tourism for social and ecological justice

  Higgins-Desbiolles, Freya, Doering, Adam, Chew Bigby, Bobbie

  Routledge  2022  ISBN: 9780367759223

• Transport Transitions in New Zealand: A scoping study

  Ford, R., Doering, A., & Stephenson, J( Part： Joint author,  Work： A report prepared for the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority (EECA))

  Centre for Sustainability, University of Otago. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10523/4841.  2014 

• Energy Transitions: Lighting in Vanuatu

  Walton, S., Doering, A., Gabriel, C.-A., & Ford, R.( Part： Joint author,  Work： Project Report submitted as part of Independent Completion Report, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australian Aid.)

  Centre for Sustainability, University of Otago. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10523/4859  2014 

• Independent Completion Report: Lighting Vanuatu.

  Swete-Kelly, D., Doering, A., Ford, R., Gabriel, C., Walton, S.

  Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australian Aid.  2014 

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• Preface

  Freya Higgins-Desbiolles, Adam Doering, Bobbie Chew Bigby

  Socialising Tourism: Rethinking Tourism for Social and Ecological Justice     xxix - xxx   2021.01

• Socialising Tourism: Rethinking Tourism for Social and Ecological Justice

  Freya Higgins-Desbiolles, Adam Doering, Bobbie Chew Bigby

  Socialising Tourism: Rethinking Tourism for Social and Ecological Justice     1 - 264   2021.01

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  Once touted as the world’s largest industry and also a tool for fostering peace and global understanding, tourism has certainly been a major force shaping our world. The recent COVID-19 crisis has led to calls to transform tourism and reset it along more ethical and sustainable lines. It was in this context that calls to “socialise tourism” emerged (Higgins-Desbiolles, 2020). This edited volume builds on this work by employing the term Socialising Tourism as a broad conceptual focal point and guiding term for industry, activists and academics to rethink tourism for social and ecological justice. Socialising Tourism means reorienting travel and tourism based on the rights, interests, and safeguarding of traditional ecological and cultural knowledges of local peoples, communities and living landscapes. This means making tourism work for the public good and taking seriously the idea of putting the social and ecological before profit and growth as the world re-emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic. This is an essential first step for tourism to be made accountable to the limits of the planet. Concepts discussed include Indigenous culture, toxic tourism, a “theory of care”, dismantling whiteness, decolonial tourism and animal oppression, among others, all in the context of a post-COVID-19 world. This will be essential reading for all upper-level students, academics and policymakers in the field of tourism. The Introduction of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at.

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Works 【 display / non-display 】

Works 【 display / non-display 】

• "Entanglements". Photographic contribution for A Toxic Love Affair: Polluted Leisure in ‘Blue Spaces’

  Doering, A., curated by Clifton Evers and James Davoll, Exhibition at the Hatton Gallery, Newcastle University Institute for Creative Arts Practice, Newcastle, UK 

  2018.09

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Conference Activities & Talks 【 display / non-display 】

• Wall, Pine and Sea: A poetic and slow research project on coastal development, injustice and compassion

  Aya Autrui, Adam Doering, Ana Maria Munar

  Critical Tourism Studies - North America, Justice, Mobility & Power: In Search of Ethical Encounters in Tourism  2021.06.22  

• CoVid-19 the intruder: Reflections on hospitality and justice

  Aya Autrui, Adam Doering, Ana Maria Munar

  Critical Tourism Studies - North America, Justice, Mobility & Power: In Search of Ethical Encounters in Tourism  2021.06.19  

• Current state and challenges of Japan’s DMO’s partnerships program: Success or failure?

  Kim, J., Yashima, Y., Nagai, H., Doering, A.

  The 2nd International Conference of Critical Tourism Studies Asia Pacific  2020.02  

• Response-ability in the entanglement of gender, surfing & tourism

  Panel Chair/Coordinator, Doering, A., (with lisahunter, Eri Mizuno, and Yoshifusa Ichii)

  The 2nd International Conference of Critical Tourism Studies Asia Pacific  2020.02  

• Maintaining masculinities: space, place and gender in Wakayama’s transnational surfscape

  Doering, A.

  The 2nd International Conference of Critical Tourism Studies Asia Pacific  2020.02  

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• 観光学3.0へ向けたツーリズム・モビリティの再考

  2021.04

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  2024.03

   

  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(B)  Co-investigator

• Enhancing Social-Ecological Resilience through Sustainable Tourism Governance in post-corona era:Traditional value-based approach for Community Vision,Capacity and Leadership.

  2020.10

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  Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research / Fostering Joint International Research(B)  Co-investigator

• サステナブルツーリズムによるSDGsの推進：レジリエンスを基盤として

  2020.04

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  2021.03

   

  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(B)  Co-investigator

• 観光目的地の競争優位性：訪日客の増加を契機とするDMOマネジャーの役割の変容

  2019.04

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  2022.03

   

  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(B)  Co-investigator

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• メディア出演等

  2020.03.11

  　

  　

  “The Fukushima surf revival..." ”SBNation (Vox Media)

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  研究成果に係る新聞掲載、テレビ・ラジオ出演

  Featured interview referencing 2018 Fukushima surfing tourism research

• Fukushima: In search of new light

  2020.03

  　

  　

  Center for Sustainability, University of Otago

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  公開講座・講演会の企画・講師等

  Education seminar o the process of recovery in Fukushima,日付:17

• メディア出演等

  2020.02.04

  　

  　

  Surf Simply Magazine (February 4, 2020). “A Line in the Sand.”

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  研究成果に係る新聞掲載、テレビ・ラジオ出演

  References the 2019 at the International Symposium in Amami and photographic contribution.

• Surf Tourism in Japan

  2020.02

  　

  　

  UNWTO Future Tourism Leaders Workshop (FTLW) 2020: Sustainable Development actions in Rural Tourism

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  Lecture given on the value of surf tourism resources in Japan,日付:25

• Conference Chair

  2020.02

  　

  　

  Critical Tourism Studies - Asia Pacific

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  公開講座・講演会の企画・講師等

  Wakayama, all Japan and international audiences,日付:2020年2月17-19日

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• General membership

  2018.04

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  Japan Society for Tourism Studies (JSTS – 観光学術学会)

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  学協会、政府、自治体等の公的委員

  学協会、政府、自治体等の公的委員,任期:Ongoing

• General membership

  2016.04

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  Council for Australasian Tourism and Hospitality Education (CAUTHE)

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  学協会、政府、自治体等の公的委員

  学協会、政府、自治体等の公的委員,任期:Ongoing

• General membership

  2016.04

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  Japan Foundation for International Tourism (JAFIT).

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  学協会、政府、自治体等の公的委員

  学協会、政府、自治体等の公的委員,任期:Ongoing

• Co-Founder and Steering Committee Member

  2016.01

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  2022.04

   

  Critical Tourism Studies – Asia Pacific

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  学協会、政府、自治体等の公的委員

  Critical Tourism Studies-Asia Pacific (CTS-AP) is an international, interdisciplinary network for academics, community members and tourism practitioners.,任期:3 terms