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Welcome to my web page.
The primary aim of the page is to provide students and others interested in courses critical geographies in Pacific Islands studies, Arctic Studies, international tourism, and childhood. It provides course descriptions and syllabi, plus other resources from my courses in the Geography Department at the University of Vermont. All the courses on the page are interdisciplinary in design and content.
I strongly believe in research and teaching which cuts across disciplines.
The perspectives and themes of my classes, consequently, draw on a wide
range of scholarship in social sciences and humanities. Readings for many
courses, for example, include academic cultural geography and anthropology,
as well as novels and poetry. There is also a deliberate effort to bring
to the fore the views and words of people of a place, be it A'otearoa (New
Zealand); Tanna, Vanuatu, or Arctic Village, Alaska.
I have been researching and writing about international tourism, the geography and anthropology of tourism, the Pacific Islands, and education for twenty years. I am now, more than ever, committed to breaking through the theoretical boundaries of subjects, regional studies and disciplines, and applied and academic pursuits. My interests are in the relationships between community-based conservation, tourism and development at the most local level, and how these global agendas and ideologies in international conservation and development are re-imagined, re-made and resisted by people in local spaces. For professionals and teachers, I hope these courses stimulate interest and provide new approaches to consider. May students find ideas, resources and readings they may be seeking.
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