Worldmaking Agency–Worldmaking Authority: The Sovereign Constitutive Role of Tourism

Conceptualising on-screen tourism destination development

“…As such, a dramatological perspective, examining symbolic and performative elements of on-screen tourism, underpins the conceptual foundation of 'on-screen dollying', thus synthesising the epistemologies of interpretivism, hermeneutics, and discourse analysis to explain how landscapes are dialectically co-organised by stakeholders and co-consumed by audiences. Consequently, the conception of 'on-screen dollying' reflects epistemological elaborations on heritage interpretation (Uzzel, 1992), tourism 'worldmaking' processes in recreating social constructions (Hollinshead, 2009;Hollinshead et al, 2009), and cinematic tourism network hermeneutics (Tzanelli, 2007(Tzanelli, , 2013(Tzanelli, , 2015 to better understand the role of film and television in making, remaking, and unmaking places as tourist destinations. From this perspective, the co-construction of meaning in place-making epitomises its dialectical intertextuality with genres, symbols, and the media that shape cultural expressions and (re)interpretations as authenticity and heritage intermingle.…”

Crossborder cooperation in transboundary conservation-development initiatives in southern Africa: The role of borders of the mind

“…An interesting dimension of the Makuleke's representations of the past is the manner in which they evoke the concept of 'worldmaking' (Hollinshead, Ateljevic, & Ali, 2009). Worldmaking refers to the: "creative and often false.…”

Academic Agency and Leadership in Tourism Higher Education

“…The capacity of tourism to contribute to social change is increasingly acknowledged as a central interest with researchers arguing that academics need to embrace research and teaching practices that make a difference to societal issues and to produce graduates that can create a better world (Hollinshead, 2009;Hollinshead, Ateljevic, & Ali, 2009;Pritchard et al, 2011;Ren, Pritchard, & Morgan, 2010). In this vein, the Hopeful Tourism Academy is an alternative to the neoliberal, businessorientated hegemony of tourism studies.…”