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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 】

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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• Socialising tourism after COVID-19: reclaiming tourism as a social force?

  Freya Higgins-Desbiolles, Bobbie Chew Bigby, Adam Doering

  Journal of Tourism Futures ( Emerald )  8 ( 2 ) 208 - 219   2022.08

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  Purpose: This article considers the possibilities of and barriers to socialising tourism after the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Such an approach allows us to transform tourism and thereby evolve it to be of wider benefit and less damaging to societies and ecologies than has been the case under the corporatised model of tourism. Design/methodology/approach: This conceptual analysis draws on the theorisation of “tourism as a social force” and the new concept of “socialising tourism”. Using critical tourism approaches, it seeks to identify the dynamics that are evident in order to assess the possibilities for socialising tourism for social and ecological justice. It employs an Indigenous perspective that the past, present and future are interconnected in its consideration of tourism futures. Findings: COVID-19 has fundamentally disrupted tourism, travel and affiliated industries. In dealing with the crisis, borders have been shut, lockdowns imposed and international tourism curtailed. The pandemic foregrounded the renewal of social bonds and social capacities as governments acted to prevent economic and social devastation. This disruption of normality has inspired some to envision radical transformations in tourism to address the injustices and unsustainability of tourism. Others remain sceptical of the likelihood of transformation. Indeed, phenomena such as vaccine privilege and vaccine tourism are indicators that transformations must be enabled. The authors look to New Zealand examples as hopeful indications of the ways in which tourism might be transformed for social and ecological justice. Practical implications: This conceptualisation could guide the industry to better stakeholder relations and sustainability. Social implications: Socialising tourism offers a fruitful pathway to rethinking tourism through a reorientation of the social relations it fosters and thereby transforming its social impacts for the better. Originality/value: This work engages with the novel concept of “socialising tourism”. In connecting this new theory to the older theory of “tourism as a social force”, this paper considers how COVID-19 has offered a possible transformative moment to enable more just and sustainable tourism futures.

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• COVID-19 the intruder: A philosophical journey with Jean-Luc Nancy into pandemic strangeness and tourism

  Ana María Munar, Adam Doering

  Tourism Management Perspectives   43   2022.07

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  Since the arrival of COVID-19, tourism scholarship has focused its attention on rethinking and restarting the tourism sector. In this urgent search for a ‘new normal’, the embodied experience of hosting such an unwelcomed virus, the philosophical questions this raises, and the tourism futures already in the making, have not been fully explored. The article introduces Nancy's (2000/2002) philosophy, L'intrus [The Intruder], where he reflects on having a heart transplant operation to give body to the experiences of the self as exteriority and of otherness always already within. We take inspiration from Nancy to think and sense the experience of the COVID-19 virus intrusion in tourism. To do this, we weave personal philosophical reflections with ethnographic material to reflect on three themes of intrusion for tourism scholarship to consider: the experience of a body/self as exposed, the experience of a shattered self, and the experience of uncertain futures.

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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   2022  [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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• “What you head!": Signs of hospitality in the tourism linguistic landscape of rural Japan

  Adam Doering, Kurara Kishi （Part： Lead author )

  Tourism Culture & Communication ( Cognizant, LLC )  27 ( 2 ) 127 - 142   2022  [Refereed]

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  This article explores signs of hospitality in the tourism linguistic landscape (LL) of the Kumano Kodo Pilgrimage Trail in Wakayama, Japan. We argue that the multilingualization of visible tourism public signage in this rural region raises important philosophical questions of hospitality. With the help of Jacque Derrida to navigate this terrain, we examine how rural regions and communities communicate and negotiate hospitality in a rapidly internationalizing rural tourism destination. Combining photographic data, participant observation, and open-ended interviews, we offer a close reading of the tourism LL at three gathering points along the Nakahechi route: Shingu City station, Kumano Hongu Taisha, and the small village of Chikatsuyu. The article is structured as follows. We begin by defining LL studies and draw attention to the current research in tourism settings. Next, an overview of Derrida’s contribution to the philosophy of hospitality is presented, which acts as a guide for reading the trail’s tourism LL. The discussion then revolves around three main themes: the host as hostage to hospitality; the reproduction of the conditional hospitality through tourism LLs; and the work of hospitality understood as an ethic of negotiating the threshold of the unconditional and conditional, the impossible and the unavoidable. Bringing together a philosophy of hospitality with tourism LL research, the articles adds new theoretical perspectives to the study LLs. It also deepens our understandings of the relationship between hospitality, tourism, and linguistic landscapes.

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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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• Socialising tourism: Rethinking tourism for social and ecological justice

  Higgins-Desbiolles, Freya, Doering, Adam, Chew Bigby, Bobbie( Part： Edit,  Work： Co-editor)

  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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• "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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  2018.10

   Artistic work

Conference Activities & Talks 【 display / non-display 】

Conference Activities & Talks 【 display / non-display 】

• Being Corpus: The tourist body as place, touch and departure

  Munar, A.M, Doering, A, AyA Autrui  [Invited]

  HUMAN: Post-anthropocentric Enquiries in Business and Society Research Seminar at the Department of Business Humanities and Law, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark  2023.04.13  

• Return to surf in post-tsunami Aceh and Fukushima

  Pakan, S.P, Doering, A, Takahashi, Y  [Invited]

  91st International Center for Ache and Indian Ocean Studies (ICAIOS) Panel Discussion Series  2022.11.28  

• Return to surf: Re-understanding the seas among local surfers in post-tsunami settings

  Pakan, S.P, Doering, A

  The Fifth Northern European Conference on Emergency and Disaster Studies (NEEDS 2021). Mid-Sweden University, Sweden  2022.09.22  

• Dressing up the place: Lifestyle mobilities, fashion and place making in Miyazaki, Japan

  Yamagishi, D, Doering, A

  T2M 20th Annual Conference, Mobilities: Disruptions, and Reconnections. Padua, Italy  2022.09.21  

• "Producers" of place: Fashionable lifestyle mobilities and the production of tourism destinations in rural Japan

  Daijiro Yamagishi, Adam Doering

  Council for Australasian University Tourism and Hospitality Education (CAUTHE)  2022.01.01  

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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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  2024.03

   

  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

Instructor for open lecture, peer review for academic journal, media appearances, etc. 【 display / non-display 】

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• 「三重県志摩市におけるサステナブルな観光地としてのブランド化に向けた調査事業」外国人アドバイザー

  2023.01.20

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  2023.03.24

  株式会社クニエ

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  サステナブルツーリズム、サステナブルモニタリング、伊勢市

  中部運輸局が実施する「三重県志摩市におけるサステナブルな観光地としてのブランド化に向けた調査事業」のうち、以下の取組に関する参加・助言
  1,現地視察2,セミナー3,ワークショップ（全２回）
  4,事業検討会議5,志摩市におけるサステナブルなブランド化にむけたとりまとめ
  出張関係：
  1.2.3（1回目）…1月下旬（3泊）
  実働時間：32時間
  3（2回目）4…2月下旬（1泊）
  実働時間：16時間

• 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.

• 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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Committee member history in academic associations, government agencies, municipalities, etc. 【 display / non-display 】

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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

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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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  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