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Re-Thinking Tourism for a Planet in Crisis, Symposium
7th May 2020

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ABOUT THE LECTURE:
In this lecture I argue that the global tourism industry is deployed around a nucleus, the tourist attraction, that is removed and protected from economic exchange. If tourism is, indeed, the world’s largest industry it is because, and not in spite, of the separation of its primary motivational and moral structure from the marketplace. I explore the implications of the fact that the global system of attractions is a massive collection of democratic “free goods” open and available for all to see. At its core, the tourist economy is less economical than phenomenological. And the primary tourist drive, its deepest motivation is not materialistic but democratic. Implications for both the tourist “industry” and for experimentation with new forms of “attraction.”

*the lecture is credited to Lusophone Journal, where it will be published as part of their forthcoming publication

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BIOGRAPHY:
Dean MacCannell is professor emeritus of Environmental Design at the University of California at Davis. As a student of anthropology in the 1960s he became fascinated by emergent cultural forms at advanced stages of modernization—the industrialization of agriculture, the re-arrangement between the sexes and the rise of tourism.

Currently, MacCannell’s long-term research on “landscaping the unconscious” has taken on new proportions to include work on the “future of the city.” In this effort, he is joined by collaborators Juliet Flower MacCannell and Bernie Lubell.

He continues to be active in the San Francisco Bay Area artist community, serving on the Advisory Board of the International Group Show "Citizen" at SOMAR. He was also recently elected a Fellow of l'Ecole Freudienne de Quebec, co-responsible with Juliet Flower MacCannell for the formation of the California Psychoanalytic Circle.

MacCannell is the author of ‚The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class‘, ‚The Time of the Sign, Empty Meeting Grounds‘ and ‚The Ethics of Sightseeing‘, producing seminal works within the field of Anthropology of Tourism.

Alongside to his research and writing, and his duties as Program Chair, MacCannell maintains an active and international lecturing schedule. His work has been widely reviewed and represents a major contribution to the literature on landscape, community, and culture.

He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1963 with a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology, and from Cornell University in 1966 with a Masters of Science in Rural Sociology and in 1968 with a Doctor of Philosophy in Rural Sociology.

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The symposium was organised by the Research Unit for Architectural Typology and Design, Institute of Architecture and Design, TU Vienna, Austria:
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The symposium was kindly supported by WKO – Sparte für Tourismus und Freizeitwirtschaft (Austrian Chamber of Commerce, Department for Tourism and Leisure Economy):
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